Good ole days

[Anonymous-0]

I remember stories, that my neighbor used to tell me.One that stands out, was a time he went to town to get some city kids to help on the farm. He had a B John Deere that had a #5 mower attached to it. He took one of the kids out to the hay field to cut hay. This kid had never done anything like this before. He made a couple of rounds, let the kid do a couple, and told him to finish the field and then to cut the outside round. The farmer went home to do some other things. A quite a bit of time passed and the farmer thought that the kid should have finished the field of hay. He waited a while longer, then went to the field to see what had happened. When he got out to the field, the boy was working on the mower, trying to figure out how to mount the bar and cycle on the other side, to cut that outside round. It would have been a little easier to explain, a little more. This man was noted for going and getting boys from town to do these jobs with out explaining much.Can't blame the kids all the time. Any other funny stories out there that are similar?

 

[Mark - IN.]

Speaking of city kids, when we were young like 5, 6, 7 or..., had some cousins from Newark on the east coast that used to come out to visit us in Indiana sometimes in the summer. They were tough cookies, and thugs. They didn't know much about chores and weren't very good at them. There's something wrong when a kid shows up for chores wearing black trousers, white shirt, tie, and wing tips. That'll make a kid laugh at another kid, and Mom get them something more suitable to wear while we still laughed at them. The problem there is when we got out of sight like in the barn, they'd jump us and beat the snot out of us like they did apparently back in Newark. I sure hated when them guys came to visit, was glad when they stopped. Ever see a kid point your BB gun at a cow and tell you to go get some money from your piggy bank or else the cow gets it? Mean, them guys were mean. Sometimes we got even, but they usually got more even afterwards. Man, was I glad when they quit coming. Haven't seen them guys in decades and never heard what ever happened to them. Probably became bank robbers or mobsters or hitmen if they're still alive. Never heard, don't care.

 

[Don L C]

Back when I was 17 - 18 yrs. old... Dad went to the little town by us to get help putting hay in the barn (1953).....we had three wagons.....dad and the boys were taking the loads to the barn....my job was loading behind the bailer....they would get back to the field before I had finished a load.....there resting right......I did not stop except for lunch....One boy told Dad he gave me the easiest job.....next round dad told me to give him the hay hook,this kid wants the easy job loading behind the bailer....have you ever done that......half way through the field, bales covering the kid up......he jumped off the wagon and walked home.......Don

 

[Larry59]

I an two other friends were hay haulers for that area we lived in. This was Wellsville Kansas and I lived on a farm there.
We were pulled out of school on-day cause the farmer called for us. Word was heavy rain was coming in and he needed the hay out of the field and this hay we got 2 Cents a bale each for the work. This was done with hook in hand and a flat bed trailer and an old truck. Lots of work and sweat and he had a big big field to do.
The hay was taken to the big ole barn and was sent up a conveyor to the second story of barn. Was hot up there and we worked all day and into the late morning doing this Hay. Then at sunrise here come the sun and not a dang cloud in the whole sky. Never did rain that day! Shesssss!
Then I had a big laugh cause one of my hay friends was scared of snakes. Black were common in the area.. lol so this farmer wanted hay in the barn and some into a small shed next to a feed area.
Two of us in shed and one out on trailer to pass threw this regular size door like in house. Square bales there were all the time handling.
Just as we were about done a black snake came out of the bale the other guy was handling. lol lol He ripped the door clear off the shed getting out from there. lol Kind of scared me at first cause I did not know what was going on. lol
The farmer was not real happy about his door being torn off. So when done with all the hay. We had to go get some wood and new hinges to fix that door. Came out of our pocket on cost to. shess lol But even today I can remember it like it was yesterday.

 

[Steve in IN]

They're probably lawyers!

(Just a joke.)

 

[rrlund]

Not about kids,but about wives. My mother grew up in town as did the wife of one of Dads best friends. Ma was out gathering eggs one day not too long after they were married. She picked up a soft shelled egg. She told Dad that she put it back because it wasn't done. Then there's the one about Micks wife. The four of them were at some event,I don't remember what it was,but she won half a dozen or so laying hens. She said that all she needed now was a rooster and she could get some eggs.

 

[Rusty wheel]

In 1947 when I was 6 years old we were putting up loose hay in the back field about i/2 mile from the house. Just pulled the wagon and hayloader out of the field when mom rang the dinner bell telling us that supper was ready. The hay was piled a lot higher than the hay racks on the wagon and I asked dad how we were going to get off the wagon. He said "do what I do". With that, he dropped to his rear and slid over the side of the wagon. I asked him if he was going to get a ladder and he said no. The nest time I saw him he was half way to the house. Took me a long time to get up enough nerve to slide off that wagon, but I was hungry. Supper was worth it..........rw

 

[Mark - IN.]

I heard like a decade ago, someone mentioned that the girl, Caroline married a millionaire or billionaire type. No joke, so I guess she came out ok. But her two brothers, Michael and Jonathon, I never want to see them guys again. Haven't seen them on America's Most Wanted, so got me...as long as they stay there. Them guys were mean. Just plain mean. You might be right, they might be lawyers.

 

[Oldmax]

Sound like you all were rich . We couldn't afford a wagon so we used a home built Two horse sled it was about 6'X10' to bring lose hay to barn .