TIL there are micro-balers for walk-behind tractors. Cute!

TIL there are micro-balers for walk-behind tractors. Cute!

Today's photo: Overtoom - west (1894).
[EN] View of Overtoom towards the east, at the Jan Pieter Heijestraat. In the canal is a ship with a large load of hay.
[NL] Overtoom gezien naar het oosten, ter hoogte van de Jan Pieter Heijestraat. In de vaart ligt een schip met een flinke lading hooi.
Via https://020apps.nl/olie/random/ #Amsterdam #JacobOlie #Overtoom #hay #sailingShip
Finished moving the hay. The rearmost stuff was small square bales, really old ones. That can stay there for now, the back of the barn is full and the bales are easy to handle when the time comes.
To move it, I pitchforked the rest to the front of the occupied section, grabbed it with the excavator, pushed the pile along the barn floor to the back, then pitched it up into the new section and finally climbed up there to pitch it on the giant pile.
No wonder everyone switched to bales, loose hay is extremely labour intensive and very space consuming. Hence the huge barns!
Now just raking up the floor, clearing out random planks, rocks and bricks.
At least everything is biodegradable or re-usable.
Decompressed hay. That's the half I got out. Took 15 minutes with the excavator to tear it out and hours with the pitchfork to move it into this giant hay mountain in the back of the same barn.
The corner is getting pretty full already (its a lot bigger than it looks, this barn is huge and I'm standing on top of more hay taking the picture).
Now it started raining and I had to roll all my stuff back into the barn so I can't continue.
I did have time to rake up the bottom, which was mostly dust and short stalks and mulched it around the pumpkins. I did that last year with other parts of the barn floor and it proved to be great fertilizer :)
Maximum #CottageCore bullshit today.
I wanted to move this hay out of the way so I can store something in this section of the barn. Turns out its very compressed. Hay.bz2 or even Hay.xz.
You can't even stick a pitchfork in, that's how dense it is. Its been there a really long time and had been walked on and stuff stored on top, perhaps that's why.
I've used the mini-excavator with my adjustable thumb on maximum setting to grab big chunks and drag them apart, which worked, but it can only reach in halfway.
The rest I'll have to do by hand. And its in a big decompressed pile now and needs to be pitchforked to the rearmost corner of the barn so we can use it for mulch and chicken floor later. 😓
I wonder if he wants to do another attempt 😁
