Thread: Public land deer - 53 years ago.

Originally Posted by TeRei

Hard to beat the spirit of the era than reading Neville Toohills book Out Spotlighting. It is a cracker including the sales of possum skins to Dunedin. Went down the Whanganui river road this week and saw them making the old short hay bales. Spent 2 years doing hay including 24 and 36 hour stints. Imagine asking people today to do that.

- we run up to three conventional balers peak time - they do both hay and silage wrap - I should add I work for a large contractor with up to 35 drivers in a big day and we can do 1000 acres in a good day - we do a lot of little square wrap bales and can sell all we do - we do 100,000 rounds a year- wrap silage and hay - thousands of tons of silage with loader wagons trailers and trucks into pit silage - who would do it today - well Dec 3 I turned 70 - what did I do - 16 hours in the tractor - dumb - but Zoe and I can go out for dinner every now and then instead of chicken -