Hauling Hay While The Sun Shines

Alayne and I headed over late this afternoon (well, late when the sun goes down around 5 p.m.!) to pick up a load of our hay that's stored in our neighbor's hay barn.  It had 'warmed up' to 8 above zero, from 10 below zero when we got up this morning.

As we stood there looking at the wall of hay bales, it did occur to us that maybe we should have done this yesterday when we had volunteer help ... but we had plenty of things that needed to get done then, too!

I took the first photo of Alayne standing on the flatbed trailer just before we got started.  Our goal was to load enough hay to get us through until next weekend, which should be a couple of tons.  To see just how long it would take to stack on the trailer, I timed us.  We started at 3:39 p.m. exactly.  When we finished, with 66 bales on the trailer stacked three high in two rows, it was 3:55.  That worked out to just under 2.5 tons (each bale is about 75 pounds).  Not bad for 16 minutes, eh?  Like we say around here, who needs a gym?

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Comments

[Nina]

Steve and Alayne, you are an amazing team!!! Olympic candidates, anyone?!

[Leilani]

It may have been cold but it sure was a beautiful day!
Very impressive loading time guys!
Have some egg nog and Christmas cookies; I'm sure they'll be more "gym" activities awaiting tomorrow.

[ginger & Tobias (the greythound)]

Wow! I'm impressed & you probably felt like you needed to peel off a layer before you done, too! Great job!
Send some of that cold weather down our way. It's been in the 70's during the daytime for about a week & in the 60's during the night. Needless to say, it doesn't feel like "Christmas weather" to me.
Sending you warm hugs,
ginger & Tobias

[Debbie Burke]

Superman and Superwoman! Wow! Just the thought of lifting 75 lbs. buckles my knees. That's hard work. But the horses will thank you as they munch away.

Have you ever thought about taking in a blind orangutan for the heavy lifting?