Yesterday was crazy!!

Its haying season and we bail 2,000 acres of hay to help our neighbor and in return we get enough hay for our horses and cattle for the year. These hay bails are 2,400 lbs a peice and there are thousands upon thousands of them! We stack them on the hay trailer and haul them to many hay barns to store them till winter.

This pic was taken before the pasture was cut, dried, fluffed, rowed, then bailed.

I had to help open gates for the tractor and bailing equipment and chase cattle from open gates! what a job!

Well a storm came rolling in fast yesterday and we had 107 round bails that needed to get hauled out of the pasture before the rain so it was a mad dash for everyone!

Storm clouds came rolling in yikes!

Gosh these pics look terrible!  All those fuzzy lumps are hay bails! lol

In the chaos to get the hay in my neighbor had to drive through the woods with a trailer load of 12 hay rolls while I trailed behind him on a 4 wheeler to close gates. He caught a bail on a tree and the entire load shifted popping the lock pin on the tail of the trailer and causing a major shift of the hay! luckily none of them fell! 

 Then we had to go across a narrow dirt road that has water on both sides that is well over your head and we did not realize the bulls had been “fighting” through the fence (our bull and my neighbors bull) they had wallowed out a hole in front of the gate so the trailer hit it and when it did a crack of lightning popped and then a awfull groaning sound came from the truck, the trailer tilted then slammed into the hole! So my neighbor punched the gas to get through the hole and when he did he swerved to get the rest of the trailer around the hole when he swerved he lost the space between the gate post and he caught the bail that was twisted from earlier on the barbed wire fence and gate post! More gut wrenching lightning and weired groaning started from the trailer then….

POP! CLANK! The chain that was keeping the Bails on the back ot the trailer from rolling off broke I had 2 round bails rolling off and headed twards me!  I threw the 4 wheeler in reverse and punched the throttle! I had 4,800 pounds coming to flatten me! (I was squalling like a little girl when this happened) luckily I swerved just in time Talk about your life flashing before your eyes!

Then the storm just died out and it was bright and sunny all THAT for nothing!!

Here is what the trailer looked like after all that drama!

Anyone want to come bail hay?!