Me too! Son was out of town for a week trip, home two days and off again. (He's a corporate pilot) and my baler set up man. 

I'm 65 and my brother is just a month short of 70 and we just put up a little over 1000 bales alfalfa/timothy. In retrospect , I think we looked more like a Max Sennett comedy movie than haymakers!

Interesting to note that I cut and raked about 6 acres of orchard grass for the Schaumburg Park District. They run an old family farm and have a couple milk cows, 2 Draft horses and 3-4 longhorn steers. They try to do everything as it was in the late 1800's. Came out with an old hay loader and loaded the wagons. Back at the barn they unloaded to a barn trolly to the loft. Occaisonally, if they run short they buy hay, but then have to take the bales apart in the mow, so they would always like to put it up themselves. Didn't look like too much fun to me though!

995 Lugmatic....congratulations for the upcoming addition to your &quot;family&quot;
You'll find that once you have kids, your &quot;family&quot; switches from your Mom and Dad to your own &quot;family&quot;. Best wishes!

Larry Coltrin