Christine Broom on Baler

So we used to have little tractors and a little conventional baler that used to do the small square bales, and my husband would go and, if it was hay, obviously, cut it and then turn it until it was the right condition to bale it, and then he’d bale it up and then he’d come up with … get the trailer and hook the trailer on and I’d go off with him and we’d carry it all back and put it in the barn.

And if it was straw, well it was baled for us but you would still have to go right down to Cridmore which is some little way from here, about two miles, or up into Sheepwash Farm, but more up Stenbury way. That’s probably about a mile and a half, and then haul it all back.