[Delano]

One of my grandfathers had a barn designed for round bales so there was no loft and it was mostly open from floor to ceiling. One year he didn’t have any cattle and half the round bales were still in there from previous years. My grandpa rigged up a huge plywood ramp that started high up in the bales and ended out in front of the barn.

Me and my cousins built tons of different wood carts that year. One cousin had these old diesel smoke stack exhaust tips that he attached to his. We ended up making them smaller and lighter over time since we had to lug them up the round bales on our backs. Grandpa didn’t make a lift system to get the carts to the top.

That was such an incredible summer. A bunch of boys about the same age and this huge funhouse was a dream. Very little supervision either, but no injuries or damage that I can remember. The barn had a pigeon coop and a wood shop that we tinkered in. One side had a big horse stall that we had to keep clean as payment for using the ramp.

That was the year we stole some zimas from an older cousin that he was trying to get his gf drunk with lol