Square hay bales

[mjarrels]

We always called them "squares" and square bales are not square! They are rectangles.

mark

 

[LarryD]

That's what we keep hearing back here in the east...

Oh wait! We were talking about HAY BALES, weren't we?

Yep! FLAKES.

You must be refering to King County.

No offense to my King County neighbors.

 

[jtlee]

we called them (son of a guns) cause when you see them you know the knotter aint tying knots no more

 

[Nat]

Here in NC they were always called a locke. Later, nat

 

[milkman]

In my neck of the woods, which wasn't very big back then, I'm talking in the '50's, everyone around here called them "beats", I suppose because every time the plunger made a beat, it created a section in the bale, at least that's the only reason I could figure they were called that.