Greenwell Notes: The Barn

Sue Molenaar Thank you for this photo. I played so many times in this barn.

Elaine Taylor Hardy This old barn brings back many happy memories. I could look out of my bedroom window and see it. Cows were on the left horses on the right. In the spring they use the right side of the barn to shear sheep. Coming out of the top of the bar was the cable with a big fork hooked to it. Yes what is the days before bail the hay. We would go into the field and our uncles would throw hey onto the wagon with their pitchforks. Dorothy and I with tromp the hay down. When we had a load of hay for horses would pull this up to the barn And stop just below this big fork. Grandpa and our uncles would load the fork with the hay and Dorothy and I would be on a Horse in back of the barn That was hooked up to cable that was pulling the fork full of hay into the barn. And I will call in the barn with E that was hooked up to cable that is pulling the fork full of hay into the barn. And I will call in the barn

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Elaine Taylor Hardy Sorry about that. My phone isn’t exactly picking up exactly what I say. Anyway Dorothy and Iwould ride the Horse back and forth until all the hay was off the hay wagon and into the barn.

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Joyce Greenwell Very interesting Elaine. Did you think of it as a fun thing to do or was it hard work?

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Elaine Taylor Hardy Tromping hey was hard but riding the horse was fun

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Karen Holden And Dad said that I climbed up the latter to the top Grandpa grabbed me and then Dad brought me back down said I was about 4 years old great memories