It is wonderful to watch and smell but it is very hot hard work. The Spring season was kind with lots of rain and sunshine, so the hay fields are ripe and ready to harvest. Many big machines later, the barn is full. What is most impressive though is the hard work. The whole system requires many people and many machines. First the hay is cut by the tractor and left on the field in rows. Next the baler comes along pulled by yet another tractor and makes up the bales of hay, the ones that look like shredded wheat. They are stacked in our big barn. The baler pitches each bale into the wagon.
Soon someone drives an empty wagon out to the field and returns with the full wagon, ready to put up into the barn. Now although an elevator lifts the bales to the top of the barn, someone strong must lift the bale out of the wagon while someone else places the bale on the conveyor belt/elevator. Yet another strong person or two works at the top of the barn to pile the bales into neat piles. It is hard, hot and heavy work.
Andrew offered to help one year and within ten minutes his hands were blistered and burst followed by blood and gore. Then he put on gloves. Of course, all the other folks worked without gloves as to them the bales were not heavy or hard. But tonight, after harvesting 1500 bales today all the members of the Jay family were weary. The work looks so rewarding but I am happy that I am watching not working.
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