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[–] 47 points 2 weeks ago (1 child)

I was still a kid really. We used to occasionally help the farmer and he used to let us fish in his pond.

So it was hay bailing time and the hay was bailed and we were handballing them on to the trailer. I was struggling to pick up one.

The farmer's wife had one in each hand. She was 8 ½ months pregnant. Farm folk are built different!

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  • [–] [S] 25 points 2 weeks ago

    My dad was a farm kid. He used to put the tractor in gear and hand bomb square bales onto the trailer and keep up to the rolling tractor.

    He was extremely fit in his younger years, and his work capacity has only begun to slow down a bit after having a stroke at 60.

    All dads are superheros to their kids, but mine was this bronze Roman god statue of a man.

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