Hay, Hay, And More Hay

My first knowledge of mechanized hay baling happened at age five on our little sharecropper farm in Lincoln County, Kentucky. The baler remained stationary; several teams of horses with hay wagons attached brought stacks of loose hay to this very loud monster.The resultant bales were stacked on another horse-drawn hay wagon. Besides the large, loud baler, I noticed a loud tractor that served as…