A machine or apparatus for baling hay, straw, metal, etc.
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Interviewer: Now, would that all would be loose, right? Speaker: All loose yeah. Interviewer: Yeah, so it wasn't bales at that point. Speaker: Oh no, no such thing as balers in those earlier days, and so that went on for quite a few years um, by that time, I was getting away from the farm because I was um in high-school and ah. |
A machine or apparatus for baling hay, straw, metal, etc. |
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And then when you're travelling around with your tractor and your wagon and your baler, the wheel drops in there- |
A machine or apparatus for baling hay, straw, metal, etc. |
And when you've a tractor and a wagon and baler, you've a lot of tires that's apt to go down that hole (laughs). |
A machine or apparatus for baling hay, straw, metal, etc. |
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In around and at- or, about nineteen-fifty-four, people started buying round-balers and square-balers. |
A machine or apparatus for baling hay, straw, metal, etc. |
And everybody had their own bloody deal with the- they had their ah, combine. And they had the baler. And some of them did custom work. But everybody worked more-or-less for themselves, and that's when the community kind-of didn't exist anymore. |
A machine or apparatus for baling hay, straw, metal, etc. |
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So you had six tractors, four or five square balers and seven or eight wagons and lots of rakes, yeah. |
A machine or apparatus for baling hay, straw, metal, etc. |
He was in the lead with the tractor and the rake, I was behind him following with the round baler. All of a sudden, holy shit, tractor's heading off the road. |
A machine or apparatus for baling hay, straw, metal, etc. |
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I was allowed to used it at about fifteen or sixteen ah, never did end up using a baler because it belonged to the neighbour and he always- he always drove his own machinery and my uncle always drove his own machinery and equipment. Um, they shared equipment, farmed a farm, um, my uncle would take his tractor and rake over and ah, start at the neighbours and then the neighbour would come along and bale it. But the next day they'd be at my uncles place, he'd have his tractor and rake going and the neighbour would have his tractor and baler baling my uncle's because they were sharing back and forth. |
A machine or apparatus for baling hay, straw, metal, etc. |
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In nineteen fifty-something and another guy was starting out like I was. We bought a baler between us and they were too big. |
A machine or apparatus for baling hay, straw, metal, etc. |
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I was always- and then when I got older, I drove the tractor on the baler. Um, he would cut the hay but I would bale. |
A machine or apparatus for baling hay, straw, metal, etc. |
And then I'd come home and then I would drive the tractor on the baler and the hay would come through the baler and make small bales. |
A machine or apparatus for baling hay, straw, metal, etc. |
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In the summertime, I'd drive the baler and bring in the hay and help out with chores and- |
A machine or apparatus for baling hay, straw, metal, etc. |
So like we- like my father would own a baler with another farmer and they would split the cost and then the equipment would be shared, yup. |
A machine or apparatus for baling hay, straw, metal, etc. |
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And they- there was tractors and- and combines and hay-balers and- and we all kind of worked up there. |
A machine or apparatus for baling hay, straw, metal, etc. |
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Speaker: Ah it's just like a- you go and cut the hay down obviously and we'd put it in rows, rake it in rows with the machine so rakes it out, and then we have the baler, which- it's like a compactor, takes the hay and forms it and puts it in a ball and makes a square out of it, then puts two strings around it and ties it, and shoots it out the end. Then you grab that, put it and pile it. And we used to do that. You-know we'd make big stacks of hay. Interviewer: Yeah. Speaker: But now- but now we have the round balers so it's just take th-- well my uncles he cuts the hay and rakes it, then he goes with the round baler and makes these big round bales which I'm sure you've seen along the highway. |
A machine or apparatus for baling hay, straw, metal, etc. |