On a typical lot the farmer announces “I have ten boxes of number one large tomatoes, we’ll sell them choice, take one up to all of them.” Then he waits for an offer from the buyers. When an offer comes, the seller repeats the number loud enough for all to hear and waits for further offers. When no higher offers come in he repeats the last offer and says “sold” to number x. The buyers catch on quick, and it helps if they are in a hurry to get back to their markets.

Because round bales are the cheapest way to buy hay for beef cows, and because I was tired of trying to roll the bales out by hand or wrapping a chain around them and skidding them out with a horse (if you ever tried to drag a bale with a chain, you know how hard it is to get the chain on and how easy it slips off), I undertook to build a bale mover.