Haymaking the old fashioned way

Amish haymaking in Mifflin County, Decatur township, PA

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• amish
• haymaking
• domesteader

[domesteader]

After i saw my father ride the overhead track in the barn while riding on a hookfull of hay which would not release....he manually tripped the hook and had to take the ride (fall) down into the mow.....seeing the circus was a bore.

[hogtrot1777]

I tried this when I was 15 and weighed like a buck thirty and I wasn't strong enough to keep up with the hay my dad had to put me on the tractor. Its harder than it even looks. You still have to put it in the haymow with hooks and once its there it is very hard to work with. 40 years later I finally got that hay out of the mow.

[senikle]

i have nothin' but immense respect for that guy. that guy worked his ass harder in 35 seconds than i do in a year. seriously, way to go. incidentally, my ass is way bigger than his...

[RockTheOcean4me]

Cool !