Growing up in south Texas, hauling hay was a summer tradition, perhaps even a rite of passage into manhood.
For you city folk, hauling hay is how ranchers gather and store up their hay for the winter—to make sure the cows have something to eat. First, the rancher would pull a massive machine called a hay baler, typically behind a tractor, through his field of overgrown grass. The baler would tie up the grass into 40-pound rectangular bundles and spit them back out onto the field.
To gather up and store the…
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