B4' I-Lancaster Farming, Saturday, July 30,1994 Onbei a farm -And o hazar Joyce B One week before, there was no thing there but a few scattered, loose, boards and a broken bale or two of alfalfa hay. Now, standing atop the stackin the old bank bam center straw mow puts your head up near the main barn beam. These fresh, shiny bales, packed tightly within the strawmow dividers, are the winter bedding supply for the weaned heifers and baby calves. High up on the bales, in the sha dowy, lofty reaches of the old bam, has always been one of my favorite places to pause for a breath during bam chores. Espe cially after scrambling to the top up a stairstep of bales. But, just filled, the mow has no stairway, just sheer, shiny sides. Only other way to the top is to climb the straight-up ladders built into the haymow walls. As old as the bam itself, the ladders are made of inch-plue-diameter wooden rounds. The rough-edged, shaping-tool strokes that formed them decades ago have long been smoothed by pairs of feet going to the top. At the top, one must swing one self from die rungs, up and over the large, squared bean that forms the upper edge of the mow’s side wall, then scramble onto the top of the bale stack. Going down entails putting that same procedure into reverse swinging one foot out over the beam and onto the top rung, then working backwards to a final drop to the bam floor, while hanging on real tight. Our youngest found a better way. When he announced that he and a friend were coming to do some It's a fact! Contaminated water can have a costly effect on your livestock and poultry performance. Our years of experience plus hundreds of farm related treatment systems has proven the validity and practicality of correcting contaminated water. 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From the top of the just-filled straw mow. At least the straw-lit tered wooden floor of the bam seemed a slightly safer landing spot then the concrete at the foot of the prior site of choice. His friend Jen was persuaded to be belted into the harness and swung out over the side of the mow, walking herself down the side of the slrawmow. She made it look relatively easy. This was too good a chance to pass up. “Can I try?" They belted me into the nylon harness, which fits over one’s “fanny,” and fastens at the front of the waist to the rappelling rope withi thick, aluminum hardware. I climbed the ladder to the top of the strawmow and donned a pair of thick gloves our son handed me. Then he instructed how to put my left hand high on the rope above me, my right hand below on the Water Quality An IMPORTANT ingredient in took Management Martin Water Conditioning Co. 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