What do you think happened next?
By Judy Evans
@JudyEv (382026)
Rockingham, Australia
May 16, 2020 10:02pm CST
I thought I was going to be able to write about a photo shoot involving a Clydesdale horse called Hamish and his people. But the lady has had to cancel due to a sick child.
So I thought you might like to see this very old photo of sheafed hay stacked on a lorry which would have been drawn by draught horses. Sheafed hay is different from baled hay. The hay is cut and bound like you might tie up a bunch of flowers. It was done this way so it could be fed into a chaff-cutter and made into chaff for horses and milking cows.
I asked my mother if the load fell off as it looks very precarious. She said they had a very short distance to take it but it fell off after a few yards. It would have been an awful job to reload.
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@wolfgirl569 (135744)
• Marion, Ohio
17 May 20
I would never have tried to move that
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@sallypup (69176)
• Centralia, Washington
17 May 20
Hamish or James in Gaelic. Handsome name. My Dad used to cut grass for folks when they had an acre or more that needed trimming. He would use his Farmall tractor, piling the hay in rows to dry before he would come back with the tractor and a trailer and loosely pile the hay up onto the tractor. He would fork all that hay into the mow for the Hereford cows.
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@DocAndersen (54399)
• United States
17 May 20
can you imagine loading that. We used to do hay bales when my dad had his mini farm. 80 pound bales of hay. that wa a workout!
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@JudyEv (382026)
• Rockingham, Australia
18 May 20
@DocAndersen We watched a sheaf-tossing competition in Ireland. I wrote about it: The 'sheaf' was a regulation 8 pound and they tossed it 60+ feet over a bar.
While at the Haymaking Festival in Trim, Ireland, we watched the sheaf-tossing competition. Two years ago, we marvelled at how high these guys could toss a...
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@DocAndersen (54399)
• United States
17 May 20
@JudyEv still had to be 4 or 5 pounds of hay, lift over your head, 200, 300 or more times. good workout!
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@Lavanya15 (12888)
• Chennai, India
17 May 20
@JudyEv yes but they not take care about it..
Due to this hear is a chance to lost their valuable life's too..
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@ElusiveButterfly (45941)
• United States
17 May 20
I would imagine that it didn't take long for it to topple. Can't imagine having to reload it.
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@ElusiveButterfly (45941)
• United States
18 May 20
@JudyEv If they had fixed the problem before heading down the road it probably wouldn't have fallen.
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@snowy22315 (208897)
• United States
17 May 20
That looks precarious. My grandparents had a dairy farm. They bailed all of their hay as far as I know. It was neater and took up less space, they still fed it to the cows of course.
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@snowy22315 (208897)
• United States
18 May 20
@JudyEv They may have had some sheafed hay, but I don't really think so. I don't remember it. When they needed to use hay they would just break open a bail. Sis and I used to love to play in the hay as kids to our great delight...but I had hay fever, so too long in the hay would lead to problems. When I stayed out there for weekends too,,,too much exposure would lead to burning eyes and cold like symptoms. I had to go to the house. I kind of grew out of it I think..although I would not want to be in a field of ragweed, even dried flowers can make me sneeze.
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@JudyEv (382026)
• Rockingham, Australia
18 May 20
@snowy22315 I'm always pleased that I don't suffer from hay fever. Some of my friends suffer with it and it's quite nasty.
@Jessicalynnt (50523)
• Centralia, Missouri
17 May 20
believe they overloaded? to begin with, was going to say, it had to have toppled off
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@Jessicalynnt (50523)
• Centralia, Missouri
18 May 20
@JudyEv really? wow, that's a huge stack
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@moffittjc (128835)
• Gainesville, Florida
17 May 20
Well that load looks totally safe! I would not have wanted to be the person who had to restock all that after it fell off the lorry.
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@moffittjc (128835)
• Gainesville, Florida
17 May 20
@JudyEv If I was getting paid for all that time, I wouldn't have minded so much having to reload it all! But if I wasn't getting paid, or if I was getting paid a flat amount for the job, it wouldn't have been fun at all.
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@JudyEv (382026)
• Rockingham, Australia
18 May 20
@moffittjc It was probably just the men on the farm doing the work. They wouldn't have got paid for reloading if it wasn't loaded properly the first time.
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@arunima25 (93194)
• Bangalore, India
18 May 20
I can relate to that. I have witnessed similar situations in my native in my childhood. And it was actually an awful job to reload it but we enjoyed doing that as children.
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@JudyEv (382026)
• Rockingham, Australia
18 May 20
@arunima25 I used to love playing on the haystacks.
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@arunima25 (93194)
• Bangalore, India
18 May 20
@JudyEv Yes. I remember how we wished that it should fall and were disappointed when it did not. My brother loved to jump on it before helping to load. Those were little joys back then.
and were disappointed when it did not. My brother loved to jump on it before helping to load. Those were little joys back then.1 person likes this
@popciclecold (40214)
• United States
18 May 20
Thar sure looks a mess, I would have hated to see it when it fell off.
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@JudyEv (382026)
• Rockingham, Australia
18 May 20
It would be much harder to load from a great heap on the ground too.
@DaddyEvil (174405)
• United States
17 May 20
Somebody created either themself more work or someone else more work than needed!
Did your mom say if she helped reload it on the wagon?2 people like this
@DaddyEvil (174405)
• United States
18 May 20
@JudyEv Yep! I grew up on a farm, too. Sometimes it took everyone helping to get things done!
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@Alexandoy (65302)
• Cainta, Philippines
17 May 20
That last line is interesting. When the hay falls off, yeah, that would be a big sorry.
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@Alexandoy (65302)
• Cainta, Philippines
17 May 20
@JudyEv for sure, it is a big job to reload. That's why the photo is amusing.
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@jayanth_77 (7179)
• India
18 May 20
Nice village life photo. Didn't the horse complain by getting cranky over the overweight hay load?
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