Haying time

[rareboy]

So the crop is coming off our fields...and I am both happy and sad.

Happy because it looks like a good crop this year.

Sad, because even haying is a destructive crop and we are really only contributing to a rapacious culture of resources going into meat consumption.

Also sad that when I did hay, we were all half naked, bronzed boys tossing bales onto the wagon and dying of thirsts and dust.

Now it is all huge equipment and forklifts piling bales onto the wagons departing out out lane. Just 2 people in AC controlled vehicles taking off 100 acres of round and huge square bales.

I hated haying... but my goodness, the visuals .

 

[NotHardUp1]

As if any farm boy in the history of the world ever had washboard abs.

Farmers eat well . . . becuz they're farmers.

Boys with washboards starve themselves to lean out the show.

But, nice fantasy, I guess.

And Goober sez "hay!"

 

[Alistair]

 

[unloadonme]

Sad, because even haying is a destructive crop and we are really only contributing to a rapacious culture of resources going into meat consumption.

Do they not feed hay to horses in Canada?

 

[NotHardUp1]

Do they not feed hay to horses in Canada?

You really should eat at a Tim Hortons.

 

[Kahaih]

Do they not feed hay to horses in Canada?

Canada is a go-to source of horsemeat. These activists are trying to change that. - Macleans.ca

The Canadian Horse Defence Coalition is waging a court battle to end Canada’s role as an exporter of live horses and frozen horsemeat for human consumption

macleans.ca

 

[rareboy]

Do they not feed hay to horses in Canada?

In fairness yes.

And I suppose some of ours ends up feeding these pets.

 

[gsdx]

I grew up haying and threshing and, for my uncle who owned a dairy farm, also bringing in straw for the cows and tons of corn for silage.

I'm glad I wasn't allergic. Hay rash was bad enough.

 

[Peloso]

Hay: the pubes of the plant world.

 

[Kahaih]

Hay: the pubes of the plant world.

So,....... trim, or don't trim?

 

[Kahaih]

As if any farm boy in the history of the world ever had washboard abs.

Farmers eat well . . . becuz they're farmers.

Boys with washboards starve themselves to lean out the show.

But, nice fantasy, I guess.

And Goober sez "hay!"

Actually, many of the farm boys I grew up with were active in school sports.

It wasn't until after graduation, and usually marriage, that they pudged out.

Personally, I've never been a zero fat type person, nor would I advocate for such a condition, but I did maintain a 27" waist well into my 30s.

Body hair removal is another matter, though. I only ever heard about a couple of the guys on the swim team doing that, and they were townsfolk.

 

[Peloso]

So,....... trim, or don't trim?

You'd have to use a scythe.

NOT recommended.

 

[rareboy]

Actually, many of the farm boys I grew up with were active in school sports.

It wasn't until after graduation, and usually marriage, that they pudged out.

Personally, I've never been a zero fat type person, nor would I advocate for such a condition, but I did maintain a 27" waist well into my 30s.

Body hair removal is another matter, though. I only ever heard about a couple of the guys on the swim team doing that, and they were townsfolk.

Two of the guys I worked with during haying were those washboard abs, zero fat guys...

I was so dead fucking beat tossing and stacking bales, I didn't even have the energy to fantasize about them when I did this for one summer.

And then I graduated to Tobacco harvesting....much better.

 

[Kahaih]

I grew up haying and threshing and, for my uncle who owned a dairy farm, also bringing in straw for the cows and tons of corn for silage.

I'm glad I wasn't allergic. Hay rash was bad enough.

@ Hay rash

Nothing ruins a pair of trousers quicker. When the fronts got too threadbare the women would cut panels from the backs of one pair to stitch over the fronts of another.

 

[Kahaih]

Two of the guys I worked with during haying were those washboard abs, zero fat guys...

I was so dead fucking beat tossing and stacking bales, I didn't even have the energy to fantasize about them when I did this for one summer.

And then I graduated to Tobacco harvesting....much better.

Working in the sun cured hay is a very hot, dry, dusty affair.

As often as we could, we'd run to the nearest pond or creek to rinse off and cool off. Clothing optional.

 

[rareboy]

@ Hay rash

Nothing ruins a pair of trousers quicker. When the fronts got too threadbare the women would cut panels from the backs of one pair to stitch over the fronts of another.

Working in the sun cured hay is a very hot, dry, dusty affair.

As often as we could, we'd run to the nearest pond or creek to rinse off and cool off. Clothing optional.

omg...I remember these things so vividly...except we didn't have a creek or pond on the farm I was working on, so it was just buckets of water thrown over you to cool off and bring down the dust on your skin. My mother was constantly adding patches to the jeans that summer to protect my legs from being torn up by the hay and corn.

I just wish that instead of a brainiac nerd, I had been fit enough and bold enough to have grabbed some while it was right in front of me...although in fairness, the people I worked with in haying were unutterably dull and str8.

 

[LoveMyPeppermill]

I just wish that instead of a brainiac nerd, I had been fit enough and bold enough to have grabbed some while it was right in front of me

You got plenty of it later on.

And you've had a much more interesting life being a brainiac nerd.

 

[NotHardUp1]

I just never remember seeing washboards before male beauty was elevated in the 80's & 90's.

Saw plenty of muscular, or lean, or fit men, but never with washboard abs.

 

[rareboy]

We are now into the the big square bale phase. Custom order. Likely going to Europe. They are knocking a bit of the shit out of our rose hedge going in and out today....but this is what pays the taxes....And still no sweat slickened young men....I despair. What did we buy the farm for then??????????

 

[LoveMyPeppermill]

.And still no sweat slickened young men....I despair. What did we buy the farm for then??????????

Maybe you should start the equivalent of a gay dude ranch.

Think of it ... "Rareboy's Ram Ranch" ...