After I left the Farm, I used to go to my cousins in the holidays and help him with his dairy farm and stopped there for two weeks at a time. I used to help him with the mowing, hay turning, but first thing in the morning I had to clean the sheds out, brushing and shovelling and putting it on pile in the yard. The I would go on to the field works. He didn't have his own baler, the next door farm did that. Then we'd carry the bale. We had a bale grab, pitch on the trailer. I did the loading. Bill put them on the trailer with the grab, I put them in place on the back. We used an ex-railway train trailer, just like the one in the picture,
which had a dolly made for it, it was just made from a piece of beam about 3ft 6 inch which went under the axel and pinned to the turntable. A bloke used to make these trailers out of railway vans and trailers and sell them for £250 per time, in the 1970s. I think he had a contract with the railways to buy them and sell them for farm 4 wheel trailers, they were called 'A' wagons. My cousin bought one, and he thought it was a lot of money for the time. The bloke he bought it off was a friend of his, his nickname was winky! Once the trailer was full, we'd take it to the farm and unload it with a Leicester Bale elevator
and Bill and Alan would stack it in the barn. The most bales I ever handled in a day would 3000, which I had tomove twice. Each bale was weighted about 40 lb. %0 bales would equal a tonne. The drier the bales the lighter they were.
which had a dolly made for it, it was just made from a piece of beam about 3ft 6 inch which went under the axel and pinned to the turntable. A bloke used to make these trailers out of railway vans and trailers and sell them for £250 per time, in the 1970s. I think he had a contract with the railways to buy them and sell them for farm 4 wheel trailers, they were called 'A' wagons. My cousin bought one, and he thought it was a lot of money for the time. The bloke he bought it off was a friend of his, his nickname was winky! Once the trailer was full, we'd take it to the farm and unload it with a Leicester Bale elevator
and Bill and Alan would stack it in the barn. The most bales I ever handled in a day would 3000, which I had tomove twice. Each bale was weighted about 40 lb. %0 bales would equal a tonne. The drier the bales the lighter they were. 
