Yuppies hauling hay

All hail the minivan~!!
Just like a truck 'cept your stuff don't get wet!!!

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You have a good point thar Chickenista. One night while going to work there was a sack of chicken feed in the truck bed that didnt get unloaded.
It started raining I had to pull off the road and salvage what was left.

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It may have been worse. You could have only had a 3 x 4 foot wagon. Yours looks like a 6x10 foot one. One of my neighbors tried to do this with a 3x4 wagon and when I saw what they were doing I went and got mine with a 6x12 and did the job in one trip for them. They only got 50 bales and we put all that on in one trip.

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God must have loved stupid people because he made so many of them.

Dad had a story about a farmer who bought a Rolls Royce to keep the pigs from breathing down his neck on the way to market. lol
For real, the first time I saw a Rolls up close it was in a mall parking lot. I peeked in the windows to see the exotic/luxurious details inside and in the back seat were a pair of brand new, plastic-wrapped snow tires!

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Cindy in SW PA

I saw a dead deer draped over the whale tail of a Lime green Porsche 911, way out on that tank trails of Fort McCoy, in Wisconsin.
Was thinking to my self that this guy had his priorities straight.

You can't be too Yuppie if you actually got home with hay instead of a load of straw.

Congratulations on learning to improvise. For some things it is called jury rigging among other terms some inappropriate.

Ahh, modern technology! Your post heading brought back a flashback of our first load of hay.
Although, our's was cut by hand with a scythe, turned with a hay fork, loaded using that same fork on to a 1/2 pickup, baled by hand using a manual scrap paper-baler and then hand carried into the barn.
Your's was already baled and ready to move..... gish, that took away half the fun! :banana02:

My 2005 Dodge mini-van hauls rams (one at a time so far), ewes (two or three at a time), and lambs going to market if we have a small load. There's an 8x10 tarp on the carpet, then a sheet of plywood, straw, and four hog panel pieces clipped together to make a pen. The tarp gets tied up the sides of the pen to keep the straw in. Easy to put in, easy to take out and store for next time.

Also 500# loads of custom feed bags, sheep mineral and salt, dog and cat food, whatever we need. Haven't used it for hay - so far.

We also have two Ford Rangers, a sheep crate for the trucks, and a small stock/utility trailer. Plus our hay and corn guy delivers, that helps with the big square and round bales. Being able to put the sheep in the van instead of in the truck crate or trailer is great when it's cold or raining.

Peg

Ok I have to brag on our 2006 Toyota Scion. We use it for feed, we can get about 200 pounds in it. And dog food!!!! Well right now I have 7 bags in it and a case of canned food!! It thinks it is a truck!! Well WE think it is a truck, it is just tired!!!!!


Alice in Virginia

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There is nothing any worse than an angry little old lady, they've had a lifetime to learn all the dirty tricks and people get upset if you hit them!

Yeah, we are pretty spoiled. DH did look at doing it like they do in Romania - a nice May Pole in the field that you stack the loose hay around, piling into a stack...... And..we looked at getting a pine straw baler......I think we made the right choice.

My grandfather used a VW Beetle for several years to tow cotton trailers to the gin. People thought that was the funniest thing they had ever seen.

Now there is some family history. Don't you wish you had a picture of that?
Note to everyone: maybe your grandkids will want to know how you did things too....

Be a little careful parking a vehicle like that where you did - the catalitic converter could be very hot, very low, and right on that swath of dried hay. You _don't_ want a fire......

--->Paul

My mom has a picture of it somewhere (among her 10 or so boxes of pics). Some things you don't want anyone to know how you did it. This is one of them.

The strange thing was two of our neighbors lost sons in accidents hauling cotton to the gin. The brakes failed on one old pickup and another rolled a pickup. Grandpa never had any trouble with the VW.

Got to laugh at wat people do to get things done. Use to see some outrageous motorcycle loads while stationed overseas. Here is some pics that might give you all some ideas for carrying ....
http://fisherwy.blogspot.com/2007/05...cle-carry.html
http://www.parish-without-borders.ne...lylifekh05.htm

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I used to haul goats in my Jeep Cherokee. Around Boston ...... the looks I got!

<<<I knew I was with my kind of people. I've hauled all kinds of things (a goat but no pigs) in my mini van>>>

I've hauled both, and a lamb to the butcher once. traded it for a pick-up, and still hauled goat kids a few times inside the pick-up rather than the in the bed for safety sake...makes me miss the mini-van even more at times...

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Lebanon, TN

The most fun was our first two dwarf Nigerian goats in the backseat of a 2001 Mitsubishi Mirage. We have carried both hay and straw since, some chickens, and even a St Bernard, but its not nearly as fun as that LONG trip with those goats.

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