Funny Stuff Did you ever build forts and tunnels in straw or haymows after baling season?

Hog Rider · 10-12-2019, 03:57 PM

In my youth, after baling and filling the barns we would pull off a bunch of bales and incorporate rooms connected with tunnels and hidden entrances. Using wood to help support the ceilings. It could be scary as hell crawling deep inside hoping your brothers didn't trap you. But it was a great time. Flashlights weren't what they are today and it didn't take long to start dimming. We knew candles were a bad idea - today's kids?- probably burn themselves alive. Stupid effers.

seclark · 10-12-2019, 04:17 PM

Hell yes.
And it wasn’t even our straw.
Sec

**Rain Man** · 10-12-2019, 04:44 PM

That sounds like a good way to get eaten by cattle.

Where I grew up, there were generally two types of jobs for teenage boys: baling hay or working fast food. My dad was a manager at a fast food place so he pulled me into that world. I was a bit envious of the guys who would go bale all summer and come back to school with muscles, but I also knew that I would sunburn to the point of spontaneous combustion if I tried working out in the fields. So I came back to school pasty white and smelling vaguely like onion rings.

**srvy** · 10-12-2019, 04:56 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Rain Man

That sounds like a good way to get eaten by cattle.

Where I grew up, there were generally two types of jobs for teenage boys: baling hay or working fast food. My dad was a manager at a fast food place so he pulled me into that world. I was a bit envious of the guys who would go bale all summer and come back to school with muscles, but I also knew that I would sunburn to the point of spontaneous combustion if I tried working out in the fields. So I came back to school pasty white and smelling vaguely like onion rings.

Megatron96 · 10-12-2019, 04:57 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by seclark

Hell yes.
And it wasn’t even our straw.
Sec

Made me chuckle. I was also a member of the "use someone else's straw" to make hay tunnels. Great fun.

scho63 · 10-12-2019, 05:05 PM

I bet some of you guys made tunnels of hay, hung out with you buddies deep inside and when the flashlights started to dim, you practiced kissing with each other so you could be ready for when the little girls started calling.

Fess up boys!

38yrsfan · 10-12-2019, 05:16 PM

My dad was lifer military but farm raised. Every year we could get there, it was a trek to the farm to help with the summer chores. We had extensive tunnels and rooms built into the bales also!

Barn was big and builtin hilly country - both levels had direct tractor access so unloading was easier. Miss those days.

Megatron96 · 10-12-2019, 05:23 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by scho63

I bet some of you guys made tunnels of hay, hung out with you buddies deep inside and when the flashlights started to dim, you practiced kissing with each other so you could be ready for when the little girls started calling.

Fess up boys!

No, but I learned that there other things one can do with flashlights when the batteries run out . . . your girlfriend showed me one time.

**Buehler445** · 10-12-2019, 06:06 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Hog Rider

In my youth, after baling and filling the barns we would pull off a bunch of bales and incorporate rooms connected with tunnels and hidden entrances. Using wood to help support the ceilings. It could be scary as hell crawling deep inside hoping your brothers didn't trap you. But it was a great time. Flashlights weren't what they are today and it didn't take long to start dimming. We knew candles were a bad idea - today's kids?- probably burn themselves alive. Stupid effers.

To be fair, my aunt and uncle (75 and 73 now) were playing with fire and burned all of grandpas hay when they were kids.

I didn’t know about that until a couple years ago. I laughed. Hard. Grandpa was wound pretty tight at that point in his life.

**Buehler445** · 10-12-2019, 06:08 PM

I’m young enough grandpa had big rounds by the time I was old enough to misbehave.

**alpha_omega** · 10-12-2019, 06:28 PM

Sounds like it would have been fun, but we were city folk.

Chief Northman · 10-13-2019, 12:55 AM

Ahhhh baling hay and straw.

I loved the alfalfa smell, hated the sweat, dust and straw itch, but it was awesome to get pulled from school because “weather was cooperating”, and there’s something about finishing a field that just leaves one satisfied.
Busting shear pins before I was old enough to fix them myself sucked though, because my old man would get pissy....”Christ - how fast are you going? Slow down!....”

Abba-Dabba · 10-13-2019, 02:42 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by alpha_omega

Sounds like it would have been fun, but we were city folk.

So you made forts out of bed sheets and fans instead?

Sweet Daddy Hate · 10-13-2019, 02:56 AM

We always dug ours in to the ground.

scho63 · 10-13-2019, 05:42 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by RubberSponge

So you made forts out of bed sheets and fans instead?

Fans??????

TV Trays, Bed Sheets and blankets, clothes pins, furniture.

10-12-2019, 03:57 PM
Hog Rider Former Illinoisian Join Date: May 2001 Location: South-Middle Tennessee Casino cash: $4735610	Did you ever build forts and tunnels in straw or haymows after baling season? In my youth, after baling and filling the barns we would pull off a bunch of bales and incorporate rooms connected with tunnels and hidden entrances. Using wood to help support the ceilings. It could be scary as hell crawling deep inside hoping your brothers didn't trap you. But it was a great time. Flashlights weren't what they are today and it didn't take long to start dimming. We knew candles were a bad idea - today's kids?- probably burn themselves alive. Stupid effers.
Posts: 1,071

10-12-2019, 04:17 PM	#2
seclark MVP Join Date: Aug 2000 Location: nemo Casino cash: $1699900	Hell yes. And it wasn’t even our straw. Sec __________________ "Mr. seclark. Wrong for gravy, wrong for jelly, wrong for biscuits." -rj "If every Planeteer who was disliked by another Planeteer stopped being a Planeteer we wouldn't have any Planeteers." -rj
Posts: 13,399	1 0

10-12-2019, 04:44 PM	#3
Rain Man NFL's #1 Ermines Fan Join Date: Jul 2001 Location: My house Casino cash: $3328491 VARSITY	That sounds like a good way to get eaten by cattle. Where I grew up, there were generally two types of jobs for teenage boys: baling hay or working fast food. My dad was a manager at a fast food place so he pulled me into that world. I was a bit envious of the guys who would go bale all summer and come back to school with muscles, but I also knew that I would sunburn to the point of spontaneous combustion if I tried working out in the fields. So I came back to school pasty white and smelling vaguely like onion rings. __________________ I'm putting random letters here as a celebration of free speech: xigrakgrah misorojeq rkemeseit.
Posts: 141,425	2 0

10-12-2019, 05:05 PM	#6
scho63 Politically Incorrect Join Date: Feb 2009 Location: Scottsdale, AZ Casino cash: $2781110	I bet some of you guys made tunnels of hay, hung out with you buddies deep inside and when the flashlights started to dim, you practiced kissing with each other so you could be ready for when the little girls started calling. Fess up boys! __________________ *"The only difference between sex for free and sex for money is that sex for free costs you a WHOLE LOT more!"* ~Redd Foxx~ ~~2018 2019 2020 20212022 2023~~ 2024 Adopt a Chief - Clark Hunt and Brett Veach "The men who drafted Patrick Mahomes"
Posts: 50,506

10-12-2019, 05:16 PM	#7
38yrsfan Veteran Join Date: Aug 2004 Location: In many minds, rent free. Casino cash: $9945667	My dad was lifer military but farm raised. Every year we could get there, it was a trek to the farm to help with the summer chores. We had extensive tunnels and rooms built into the bales also! Barn was big and builtin hilly country - both levels had direct tractor access so unloading was easier. Miss those days.
Posts: 1,350

10-12-2019, 06:08 PM	#10
Buehler445 Supporter Join Date: Apr 2007 Location: Scott City KS Casino cash: $2324734	I’m young enough grandpa had big rounds by the time I was old enough to misbehave.
Posts: 56,780

10-12-2019, 06:28 PM	#11
alpha_omega Supporter Join Date: Jan 2004 Location: Liberty Casino cash: $1651251	Sounds like it would have been fun, but we were city folk.
Posts: 16,737

10-13-2019, 12:55 AM	#12
Chief Northman MVP Join Date: Apr 2015 Location: Canada Casino cash: $6900890	Ahhhh baling hay and straw. I loved the alfalfa smell, hated the sweat, dust and straw itch, but it was awesome to get pulled from school because “weather was cooperating”, and there’s something about finishing a field that just leaves one satisfied. Busting shear pins before I was old enough to fix them myself sucked though, because my old man would get pissy....”Christ - how fast are you going? Slow down!....”
Posts: 8,149

10-13-2019, 02:56 AM	#14
Sweet Daddy Hate Unsparing Join Date: Aug 2008 Casino cash: $10004900	We always dug ours in to the ground. __________________ 1. Merciless, severe. 2. Given freely and generously. 100% refusal to overrate 20 year Head Coaches with ZERO **ing rings as a Head Coach. CP's Official Professor of 'Dem Blues for 2019/2020!**
Posts: 77,135