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Speaker 1: Welcome to This Country Life. I'm your host, Brent Reeves

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Speaker 1: from coon hunting to trot lining and just general country living.

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Speaker 1: I want you to stay a while as I share

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Speaker 1: my stories and country skills that will help you beat

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Speaker 1: the system. This Country Life is proudly presented as part

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Speaker 1: of Meat Eaters Podcast Network, bringing you the best outdoor podcast.

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Speaker 2: The airways have to offer.

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Speaker 1: All right, friends, pull you up a chair or drop

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Speaker 1: that tailgate.

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Speaker 2: I think I got a thing or two to teach you.

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Speaker 1: Hauling hay. The images that come to mind when someone

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Speaker 1: mentions hauling hay they're pretty diverse from me. They go

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Speaker 1: from downright angst and dread to fond memories of hot

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Speaker 1: summer spent with good friends and relatives, and heartwarming instances

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Speaker 1: of good times in nearly unbearable heat. I grew up

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Speaker 1: hauling hay out of necessity and for summer work. I

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Speaker 1: continue to work in the hay fields now, but only

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Speaker 1: with the nostalgia of the mission, not the methods. We're

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Speaker 1: gonna be talking about, hey this week, how farming it

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Speaker 1: has changed and its impact on the landscape. Impact. It's

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Speaker 1: just cutting grass for animals to eat, ain't it? What

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Speaker 1: impact could it?

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Speaker 2: Have.

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Speaker 1: Well, if we're talking about quail, and we are big ones.

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Speaker 1: But first I'm gonna tell you a story. A square

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Speaker 1: bale of hay, which should really be called a rectangle,

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Speaker 1: can average anywhere from forty to seventy five pounds. It's

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Speaker 1: held together with two strands of tightly tied haystring, and

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Speaker 1: considering you're going to have to put your hands on

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Speaker 1: it about six times before it's used, it may be

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Speaker 1: the singular most labor intensive item on the farm. Now

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Speaker 1: people say firewood will warm you four times when you

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Speaker 1: got it, when you're splitting it, stacking it, and finally

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Speaker 1: when you burn it. Well, old school square bales of

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Speaker 1: hay in the summer had to be loaded onto a trailer,

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Speaker 1: stacked on the trailer, unloaded at the barn, stacked at

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Speaker 1: the barn, loaded from the barn to a truck, and

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Speaker 1: unloaded wherever you were feeding cows that winter. Now, that

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Speaker 1: makes about six times. You don't see many folks using

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Speaker 1: square bells anymore, and that's one of the reasons. But

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Speaker 1: in the early eighties they were still very much in vogue.

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Speaker 1: A friend of mine and his parents had cattle, just

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Speaker 1: like most of the folks where I grew up and

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Speaker 1: they needed some help hauling hay. That summer was a

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Speaker 1: bad one. It was beyond hot. It was stifling, take

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Speaker 1: your breath away, crazy hot. But everybody knows that if

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Speaker 1: your cows are going to eat in the winter, then

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Speaker 1: there's work to be done in the summer. My friend's

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Speaker 1: dad was paying twenty five cents a bail, which would

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Speaker 1: be split amongst the field hands, and that was more

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Speaker 1: than I'd ever made per bail, and an incentive enough

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Speaker 1: for me to be there as the dew finished drying

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Speaker 1: in the heat of the morning to get started. My cousin,

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Speaker 1: whose dad was in the military, was stay in the

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Speaker 1: summer with us, and he joined me that day. My friend,

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Speaker 1: who still lived at home, wasn't getting a nickel of it,

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Speaker 1: so the quarter prevailed would be divided by two. That's

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Speaker 1: If we'd have had to split it three ways. We

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Speaker 1: were going to be rich if we lived. My cousin

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Speaker 1: probably wished he'd been in the military too, rather than

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Speaker 1: walking alongside that hay trailer chunking bales of hey and

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Speaker 1: that humid, blistering Arkansas sun that weighed a third of

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Speaker 1: what he did. Welcome to the country, cousin, we're fixing

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Speaker 1: to try and kill you. He did great, though, and

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Speaker 1: he worked like he'd been doing it his whole life.

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Speaker 2: Now.

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Speaker 1: I don't remember how many bells we get hauled by

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Speaker 1: noon when my friend's mama brought our dinner to us,

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Speaker 1: but it was several loads. We gathered in the shade

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Speaker 2: While we sat in the shade.

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Speaker 1: We were eating baking and tomato sandwiches and washing them

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Speaker 1: and the four of us drank it up pretty quick. Now,

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Speaker 1: That day, after about thirty minutes, my dad's friends said,

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Speaker 1: taking turns of rotating, chunking bells on the trailer and stacking.

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Speaker 1: It went clockwise. You had two rounds walking on the

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Speaker 1: You started out on the right side of the trailer

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Speaker 1: and you couldn't just stack square bells on top of

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Speaker 1: the innerlock, which helps keeping them from falling over as

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Speaker 1: you move around the field into the barn. Only job

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Speaker 1: that we didn't rotate out was driving the truck that

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Speaker 2: That was his.

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Speaker 1: Mama's gig and his daddy only got off the tractor

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Speaker 1: they had to be stacked very carefully, ensuring that air

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Speaker 1: barn and spontaneously combussed. A fancy way of saying catching fire.

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Speaker 1: Always thought that term was kind of funny. Reminded me

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Speaker 1: label on that cardboard case that contained the replaceable battery said,

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Speaker 1: why they didn't just say blow up. That'll boost your

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Speaker 1: knowing that the parts that are all working together to

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Speaker 1: like a Roman candle was built on a government contract

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Speaker 1: In the hayfield, we had returned from the barn to

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Speaker 1: I was on the trailer stacking and I saw my

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Speaker 1: There was no trace of him.

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Speaker 1: I was fixing the holler for his mama to stop

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Speaker 1: The hide was gone from everywhere, and I don't know

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Speaker 1: He also knew he couldn't quit because there was no

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Speaker 1: quit to anyway. That was his family's farm, and unlike

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Speaker 1: me and my cousin, he was working for room and board.

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Speaker 1: He also knew that he had to do something to

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Speaker 1: without tie in his hand, working on loosening up a

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Speaker 1: knot he'd tied in it. I said, why are you

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Speaker 1: one of my good ties, and that's just how that happened.

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Speaker 1: The advances in hauling hay in the past forty years

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Speaker 1: He told me he looked forward to that first bush

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Speaker 2: Here's how we avoid it.

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Speaker 1: Since those like to leave their fawns on field edges,

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Speaker 1: It also allows them to be able to see other

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Speaker 1: The Bob white quail was king. Quail hunting was something

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Speaker 1: That produces more grass parakre, which is good. But if

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Speaker 1: native grasses also provided an overstory that hid the quail

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Speaker 1: I came along towards the end of the Arkansas Quail

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Speaker 1: They whistled to defend their territory and a tract to mate.

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Speaker 1: don't get no better than that. I hope the quail

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Speaker 1: come back. But old Clinton folks like him, they can't

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Speaker 1: do it by themselves. It's like anything else, it takes

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Speaker 1: Arkansas game and Fish Commission website about quail and how

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Speaker 1: to manage habitat for him. It's free and it's available

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Speaker 1: to everyone. No kidding, it's really really good. There's a

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Speaker 1: whole team private land biologist at the Arkansas Game and

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Speaker 1: draw up a plan to enhance the wildlife, hunting and

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Speaker 1: viewing opportunities on your property.

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Speaker 2: I bet where you live, either through the.

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Speaker 1: County Extension Service or your state's Ring and Natural Resources

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Speaker 1: that there's a similar group of people to help landowners too.

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Speaker 1: They can't help it if you don't ask, and the

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Speaker 1: squeaky wheel will always get the grease. Now, I definitely

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Speaker 1: prefer the style of hay hauling I do now as

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Speaker 1: compared to what it was like when I was a kid.

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Speaker 1: But I have no doubt that there's a farm boy

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Speaker 1: somewhere riding around and his daddy's tractor wishing he was

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Speaker 1: somewhere else while listening to the satellite radio and controlling

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Speaker 1: the temperature inside the tractor like he was sitting at home.

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Speaker 1: It could always be worse, Junior. You could be out

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Speaker 1: there hauling hay without a tie. Thank you so much

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Speaker 1: for listening I appreciate it. If you have the opportunity

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Speaker 1: share this with someone that you think might like you.

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Speaker 1: Folks be good to one another, and that's about as

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Speaker 1: country as it gets.

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