Photo 15-MHA-12

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I love it....brings back many memories. The farrowing "tent sheds" out in the field is something we never had but I worked on them....$1.00/hour was my rate for all farm work. The barn is in such good shape...don't see too many like that these days. I noticed the feeding floor to the left of the barn. I helped pour at least 4 of those...working the screed board to kept the floor level (with the right pitch away from the barn, for water run off). I cannot see the front, but it must have a hay loft, with two big doors and a steel track at the peak, running the length of the barn, to pull load after load of "forked" hay bails up and then into the loft. I was always the one on the hay wagon who worked the forks. Four of them that I would force into a group of bails. If I did it right, the bails would be pulled tight together as they went up. I NEVER lost a load. Maybe that was why I was doing that job?
The house looks in great shape. They may be in the middle of rebuilding the small chicken shed. I can see a small, empty, "air dry" corn silo and maybe a pile of corn on the ground nearby. It must have been a good year. I expanded the picture to get a better look at the road...looks like good old gravel to me. Blacktopped farm roads would have been silly back in my day! I don't understand the building to the left of the house....much to close for any farm animals (the smell!).

Thank you soooo much....wish I was young again and could work the hay wagon once more....
Dad

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