Summer tips!- Dont wear shorts

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poiuytrewq

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Mine is DO NOT merrily go to stack your nice hay straight off the field...wearing shorts. I look like I've got chicken pox and the pain was too much, I had to fashion a skirt from an old bath towel!

Some amazing hay being made here though- this winters looking less stressful already :D

Add your summer survivals ;) while we still have sun
 
I think a better tip, when carting hay, is to carry it away from your legs! I too wore shorts yesterday to cart bales and today to stack them.
 
Oh dear! :D

Some really lovely hay being made around here too. Hopefully this year's will be much nicer than last year's mouldy dusty stuff!
 
Feeble me, I actually find it impossible to lift a bale without bunking it onto my legs?! I do have a bad back though and find lifting anything much difficult so perhaps that's more to blame.
 
I own a large hay farm so spend a lot of my summer stacking thousands of bales of hay. I still wear shorts but they're cut-offs, at the knee. It's the thighs which bear the brunt of the weight of the hay. Our hay barns get up to silly temperatures so jeans really wouldn't work as they'd be glued to you in the 50c temps in the barns.
 
FWIW if you don't normally take hayfever tablets have a good look at the prickled bits and if they seem inflamed rather than just cut get some antihistamines. I have a few prickled bits but I don't seem to be allergic so just have tiny cuts, my husband has bigger raised lumps but this hayfever tablets reduce this greatly. I just wish the blighter would remember to take the damned things when he has hayfever!:)
 
Re the shorts business, I had a pretty awful time poo picking the netttly part of the field in shorts and flip flops!
Being stung between the toes - I do not recommend !
 
poiuytrewq said:
Feeble me, I actually find it impossible to lift a bale without bunking it onto my legs?! I do have a bad back though and find lifting anything much difficult so perhaps that's more to blame.
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Nothing feeble about it. That's the correct way to move hay bales if you don't want to have a totally knackered back :)
 
ohh, yes flip flops and nettles! Never the best combo! Lucky for me O/H is obsessive about weeds and neat fields so I don't have to worry about that one! I did experience it at a friends yesterday tho' OUCH!

Yes I do take an antihistamine (SP!) most days scared by the prediction of a huge pollen rush! so far so good, in fact no one I know has suffered this year really?
I am allergic to hay so that probably didn't help either now you mention it!
 
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