Um, there was always the horse lingo with the gee and the haw kind-of-thing and ah but um, you-know we even- we even road them at times, there were times when um, we didn't have um- you-know the roads could be closed for three or four days with the- with the snow and we had cattle at this farm but we also had cattle up at this farm, up- you-know just up the road a little piece.

You-know, 'cause they've never heard of that ah you-know it- it might be a piece of machinery or um a way that you-know like when we talk to the horses it's gee or haw you-know 'cause that's the way they know to go right or left kind-of-thing.

when it got there and- went down the track in the barn, they had somebody pull the ch-- something (inc) rope or a chain or-something and then dumped it (laughs). Interviewer: I see. Speaker: But then you know what we played after doing that all day? Interviewer: What did you do? Speaker: Horse and hay fork (laughs)! Interviewer: How did you do that? Speaker: I'm not sure (laughs). Well I don't know what we used for a- for- to load the grass. We used grass (laughs). Whatever we used, I don't remember exactly but- but one of us would be the horse (laughs)

And I'd build the loads and they would go themselves and come up to the end of a windrow and turn and get on the next windrow by themselves just talking to them. . And later on a-- as Mother would drive the team on the hay-fork if you know what a hay-fork is (laughs). That took the hay up on the track and drop it in the (inc). Mother got that she wasn't able to do that anymore for she done it so many years.

And later on a-- as Mother would drive the team on the hay-fork if you know what a hay-fork is (laughs). That took the hay up on the track and drop it in the (inc). Mother got that she wasn't able to do that anymore for she done it so many years.

Speaker: You get the hay in. Interviewer: That was a big job wasn't it? Speaker: Yeah. They forked it on and forked it off at one time. I didn't. Interviewer: What did you do? Speaker: Well I had a hay-fork which is a track in the ridge of the barn. Right at the top of the roof. Interviewer: Yup. Speaker: And you- back to the wagon or whatever you were drawing the hay on in under and set the fork and then pulled it up.

Interviewer 1: And where would it get put? Speaker: Into the (inc) and you'd trip the fort and it would drop it. Interviewer 1: And then back out. Speaker: And then you spread it and do it over again. I did that one year here myself without a- without a hay-fork. After that I had a hay-fork. 'Cause I didn't like forking all that hay off (laughs). Interviewer 1: (Laughs) Yeah. That's a big job isn't it?

Speaker: Into the (inc) and you'd trip the fort and it would drop it. Interviewer 1: And then back out. Speaker: And then you spread it and do it over again. I did that one year here myself without a- without a hay-fork. After that I had a hay-fork. 'Cause I didn't like forking all that hay off (laughs). Interviewer 1: (Laughs) Yeah. That's a big job isn't it?

…and then we come along with the wagon later on, go between the two coils and be a guy on each side of the wagon and put a- put on and that sort of thing and- and there was- Interviewer 1: With a- with a fork? Speaker: Yes, with a hay fork, ah, with a hand hay fork type-thing, yeah. Interviewer 2: Mm-hm. Speaker: And, ah, so that was, ah- that was a big part of the summer, ah, when you're going to school was, ah, doing the hay crops and that sort of thing.

Speaker: My dad or- sometimes we'd have a hired man for the summer months. Interviewer: Would they fork it up there? How do you get it- the hay up there? Speaker: Well, it's hard to explain that. I used to drive what they called the-horse-and-the-hay-fork. And there was a big fork in right down from the ceiling. And you put that into the ah, into the hay. And then, the horse outside would pull that up on the rope.

Speaker: Amazing. And the s-- second time was up in the hay mow, then you drew the hay in a wagon and then you hitched a horse to the hay fork. You filled the fork with hay off the wagon. Put the fork into the hay and then Sharon sometimes drove the horse out a piece and that would lift the- the hay off the wagon up on a rack. Interviewer: Oh, like a forklift that wold just lift it up, yes.

Interviewer: How'd you get it out again? Speaker: Ah, you take your hayfork up there and fork it out over the beam down onto the floor and then down through the hole down at the- the passage way there for the...

Speaker: Then we used to take the- we had a- a separate horse on the- the hayfork to ah- but the a- the hayfork into the hay and- Interviewer: Mm-hm. Speaker: The other fellow would get on the- off of the- rope on the other end and- and pull it out to take the hay up and take it over and trip rope and drop it and pull it back down and do this 'til you had your load all off.

Interviewer: And, when you got the the barn, h-- what- what would you do with that? Speaker: Hayfork. Interviewer: Oh, okay. Speaker: There was a- y-- you drove the- the horses went into the barn with this load of hay and there was a fork thing. And it was on a pulley.

Speaker: And then he reaped it and it went into windrows and then you coiled it. Interviewer: Yes. Speaker: You had a hayfork and you made a little pile. Interviewer: Right, right. Speaker: A little stack.

Interviewer: No? Speaker: Tell you a story. Interviewer: Yeah. Speaker: Maybe you've heard tell of him. We had a fellow in the neighbourhood at Rosetta there who had ah an-

To move in. Now I think there was kind-of like a- I don't where- we- it was kind-of like a little revolution over in Quebec at the time. And those families for some reason or another, they had to hightail here and this is where they ended up.

It makes an awful difference. But I was amused at the neighbour, not far from where Christina lives. Very against hunting. Anyway, the coyotes come in the area. Then they were so scared the coyotes would get their dogs- they'd some wee pets. So they got their hired man, see if he could get permission to go and hunt where the coyotes were. It makes a hell of a difference for what's involved.

And she'd carry in pails of water and heat it in the boiler to wash clothes with. And she had to use a hand washer. We'd come home from school some nights and she'd be still washing, had washed all day. Because we had a hired man. And ah both of our grandfathers passed away at our house. They were there for some time.

And ah another friend come in and helped a bit, but we were responsible for the children and for the meals for their dad and their hired man and-so-on.