Yesterday we made this....
Turn into this...
When unloading this many bales, it takes a lot of man power. But we also have a handy-dandy item that helps a little bit.
Say hello to our bale elevator.
This machine helps save us a little energy. It works as a conveyor belt of sorts. The people on the truck bed carry the bales over to it, lay them on the chain and it carries them into the barn. Then they are stacked by whoever is working inside (I don't have enough upper body strength, so I am never inside the barn). The chain has hooks on it that grab onto the bale and carry it along.
We don't always use this (mostly because sometimes we can't get it to work). But it does save your back a little bit when you don't have to physically throw the bales off of the trailer. And they land exactly where they are supposed to every time.
Moving hundreds of these 60-70 pound bales can do a number on your body. My back isn't what it used to be, so I mostly employed this method (below) that dad is doing. It is the "dragging" technique." Yep, you grab onto the bale with a hay hook and drag it where it needs to go.
The hay hook we used yesterday is a long one, so we didn't have to bend over near as much. I was trying to show how large it was and still didn't manage to get the whole thing in the photo.
The end result is a very, very full barn. Which is reassuring to see!
Thank goodness that we don't have to pay much for our supervisor...she doesn't do much ;-) But she does supervise very well!
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