Which is it.......

[mike newman]

...down here it is simply ''get the bloody hay in the shed before it rains..''......no  fancy names although old sheds back away's always had ' lofts '...for the loose    hay.....

...we wouldn't ''plow ''  corn...we would ''plough''  corn...(Thats for @MacAR...he will no doubt give me another 'wind up ''.....  )

....Small bales of hay are easier   to cart up on the hill sides...although using a big round bale can be quite exciting rolling it out down hill.....

There are so many differences  in ''nomenclature''' down under.....I guess as we run a day ahead of the peasants in the Northern   half of the globe...this  seamlessly   fashions our daily lives....right up at the cutting edge of technology.........  You know...the Arkansas hillbillies come to mind......

Mike

[DT Fan]

I mentioned Barn earlier because when growing up that's where the hay went. Guess that's because there was no loft or mow, floor to ceiling hay. Dad built the White barn and again, no loft or mow. Idiot cubes floor to ceiling.

[brewcrew]

5 minutes ago, DT Fan said:

I mentioned Barn earlier because when growing up that's where the hay went. Guess that's because there was no loft or mow, floor to ceiling hay. Dad built the White barn and again, no loft or mow. Idiot cubes floor to ceiling.

What did it have for a floor? I’ve noticed that stacking big squares on the concrete floor makes the bottom get moldy or otherwise mildly spoiled. But on the wooden floor of the haymow, I don’t have any trouble with that!

[DT Fan]

3 minutes ago, brewcrew said:

What did it have for a floor? I’ve noticed that stacking big squares on the concrete floor makes the bottom get moldy or otherwise mildly spoiled. But on the wooden floor of the haymow, I don’t have any trouble with that!

That's an interesting question. I don't know is about the best I can tell you about the original 'Red Barn'. It could have had a wood floor, maybe? Certainly not concrete. I would guess it was dirt like the 'White barn'.

[stronger800]

Headlands and sidehills here too 

[John Rowehl]

Interesting local terminology here I’ve noticed recently: a plow is “plows”. 
Makes me think they see a bottom as a plow in of itself.

I should ask if a single bottom plow is a “plows”.
 

[MacAR]

8 hours ago, mike newman said:

...down here it is simply ''get the bloody hay in the shed before it rains..''......no  fancy names although old sheds back away's always had ' lofts '...for the loose    hay.....

...we wouldn't ''plow ''  corn...we would ''plough''  corn...(Thats for @MacAR...he will no doubt give me another 'wind up ''.....  )

....Small bales of hay are easier   to cart up on the hill sides...although using a big round bale can be quite exciting rolling it out down hill.....

There are so many differences  in ''nomenclature''' down under.....I guess as we run a day ahead of the peasants in the Northern   half of the globe...this  seamlessly   fashions our daily lives....right up at the cutting edge of technology.........  You know...the Arkansas hillbillies come to mind......

Mike

Now Mike, would I wind you up? 😆

Our counterparts across the water do have a funny spelling for a lot of things, and putting extra letters in plow is no exception. Sorta like the old saying why use one when you can use three... complicated but if it makes ya happy I love it. 

Being raised by my grandad, I have a lot of funny old words that aren't used much (or at all) anymore. But for the life of me, I can never think of them when I need an example! They just sorta come out on their own. 

Mac

[yellowrosefarm]

Always heard people call it a hay loft around here. First time I saw it called a hay mow was in a book.

[stronger800]

17 hours ago, MT Matt said:

I’m your huckleberry… 🤣🤣

The coloration of your bales leads me to believe you do not have to Ted your hay 2-3x a day for two or three days before it can be baled like I do. You must be in one of those nice and dry areas. 

[stronger800]

17 hours ago, MT Matt said:

I’m your huckleberry… 🤣🤣

The coloration of your bales leads me to believe you do not have to Ted your hay 2-3x a day for two or three days before it can be baled like I do. You must be in one of those nice and dry areas. 

[stronger800]

17 hours ago, MT Matt said:

I’m your huckleberry… 🤣🤣

The coloration of your bales leads me to believe you do not have to Ted your hay 2-3x a day for two or three days before it can be baled like I do. You must be in one of those nice and dry areas. 

[stronger800]

I do not know why my phone does that sometimes.  I like redundancy anyway. Obviously 

[5288IH]

21 hours ago, stronger800 said:

Mow here in NY.  Hard to find help anymore….I lost 30lbs this summer, in the Mow

….since most of you guys probably haven’t seen an idiot cube in a while 

I remember when use to be able to unload 160 110lb bags of fertiliser, I think my knees will buckle under the weight. We were cruel to our bodies

[MT Matt]

32 minutes ago, stronger800 said:

The coloration of your bales leads me to believe you do not have to Ted your hay 2-3x a day for two or three days before it can be baled like I do. You must be in one of those nice and dry areas. 

It is bone dry out here in western Montana for most of the hay season. Towards the end of the season I can mow one day, rake early and then bale late the second day.  Three day turn on cut/rake/bale is normal on first cut.  Nobody owns a tedder.

The bales in the pic are all oat hay. It would all be light green but it was stored until this fall in a partially closed building. So the yellow sides are just sun bleached.  The pic is after I moved them home to my shed. I don’t like it but once the bale is opened, it’s not much.

And I call it a hay shed. When we had a barn in Minnesota growing up, we called it the hay loft because it was above the main level. 

[stronger800]

160? We use to buy a flat bed ten or 12 wheeler load.  Or two. I don’t know how many. Nearly filled  an area in the shop that I know is 12x20  stacked high enough to be dangerous, maybe 5’, because a stack fell over and broke a guys ankle one day.  Didn’t start buying bulk until the ‘90s

[stronger800]

I remember the pictures of the oat hay, on like an equipment trailer.   Around here if you cut and just let it sit for three days, the top would be sun bleached and the bottom would be green and as wet as the hour you cut it, and it would stink

[CDN 400]

It was always the "mow" here I always thought hay loft sounded like a city slicker term.

[Wi Ih]

Mow here in Wi and pop. 

[poor farmer/logger]

Can’t say I’ve ever heard the term mow here.  Always been loft.  

[SMDFarmboy24]

Grew up with calling it a hay mow here. The mows were on the ends up the barn and the dry floors were in between. 

Our current bank barn does have a loft over the one dry floor. 

So is it an overhang or forebay on a bank barn?

[ray54]

What is this 😉 mow or 😉 loft thing you're all talking about?😵‍💫Ok I know, I even had the privilege of putting 200 or 300 hundred bales in that up stares room. 

The only barn I know of with it was built by a big city gangster on his property he bought to run a still on out in the brush. The story goes he had a machine gun setting up there. Open the door and it was aimed right at the driveway.

All other barns were for loose hay with a track and fork up in the peak of the roof. Then lean-to's on each side for your cows or horses. In the 1950's and latter almost all still used had big door put in one end. 

[Dirt_Floor_Poor]

On the topic of Coke- my wife is from Texas and I can’t stand that. “I'll have a Coke.” “What kind?” “A Pepsi.” Her and her family use the southern slang term “tump” which I also can’t stand. “Tump” is apparently a combining of the two words tip and dump. “Be careful, you’re gonna tump that over.” There are many more, those are just at the top of the list at the moment. 

[John Rowehl]

On 11/3/2024 at 1:54 AM, MacAR said:

End rows are called turn rows or headlands. I've heard both and it depends on the age of the person; seems older folks call them headlands. Maybe left over from the moldboard plow days? Folks my age seem to say turn row more. I use them both depending on what I'm talking about. 

Where I grew up there were none, regardless of the name. It was all potatoes and vegetables so nothing was planted cross-way on the ends of a field. But there was no equipment bigger than four rows so you planted up to the end as close as you could and still be able to turn around.

Where I live now, I would say headlands is the commonly used term.

[John Rowehl]

On 11/3/2024 at 1:54 AM, MacAR said:

End rows are called turn rows or headlands. I've heard both and it depends on the age of the person; seems older folks call them headlands. Maybe left over from the moldboard plow days? Folks my age seem to say turn row more. I use them both depending on what I'm talking about. 

Where I grew up there were none, regardless of the name. It was all potatoes and vegetables so nothing was planted cross-way on the ends of a field. But there was no equipment bigger than four rows so you planted up to the end as close as you could and still be able to turn around.

Where I live now, I would say headlands is the commonly used term.

[MacAR]

55 minutes ago, John Rowehl said:

Where I grew up there were none, regardless of the name. It was all potatoes and vegetables so nothing was planted cross-way on the ends of a field. But there was no equipment bigger than four rows so you planted up to the end as close as you could and still be able to turn around.

Where I live now, I would say headlands is the commonly used term.

Very similar here with the smaller farmers. Nothing bigger than 4 row, and most guys had 2 row stuff. No headlands, just leave enough room to turn the picker at the end.

Mac