Hay Making on a Different Scale

[LHF2019]

WOW!!! That sounds like a very long, very painful day. And you did it three days in a row. I don't think I would be able to move after the first day

It is the getting off the tractor that is the worst. I'll be stiff barely able to walk but fine once loosened up. Same at UPS take break in the car then have a hard time getting back out. Can't imagine what it will be like when I'm old. Not to mention this has been a long hot summer. No cabs. So just sitting in the sun cooking for 10-14 hours sometimes.

 

[Hay Dude]

It is the getting off the tractor that is the worst. I'll be stiff barely able to walk but fine once loosened up. Same at UPS take break in the car then have a hard time getting back out. Can't imagine what it will be like when I'm old. Not to mention this has been a long hot summer. No cabs. So just sitting in the sun cooking for 10-14 hours sometimes.

Do you have any opportunities to do any field mowing or snowplowing or other off farm work utilizing your equipment? You get a crap-ton of snow in NW PA, right?
I have done this with good success.

Maybe UPS gives you bennies.

 

[ultrarunner]

It is the getting off the tractor that is the worst. I'll be stiff barely able to walk but fine once loosened up. Same at UPS take break in the car then have a hard time getting back out. Can't imagine what it will be like when I'm old. Not to mention this has been a long hot summer. No cabs. So just sitting in the sun cooking for 10-14 hours sometimes.

A lot of the open station field tractors growing up had attached shade umbrellas.

Now conditioned cabs the norm.

We also have increasing cases of Valley Fever extending outside the Central Valley causing concern.

Several old farmers had this become a real issue late in life…

https://www.mayoclinic.org/diseases-conditions/valley-fever/symptoms-causes/syc-20378761

 

[LHF2019]

Do you have any opportunities to do any field mowing or snowplowing or other off farm work utilizing your equipment? You get a crap-ton of snow in NW PA, right?
I have done this with good success.

Maybe UPS gives you bennies.

Never had an interest in snowplowing except my own driveway. I would not consider snowplowing a good investment anymore. Last winter was the first time in I don't know how long we had a somewhat real winter. Non stop snow. Otherwise the number of time I have plowed snow would be in the single digits. I do like the steady paycheck of UPS and if I were to use it the no cost health insurance. If anything I am hoping I can hold out long enough to lock in the pension from there.