[Sca-cooks] Kitchens and Straw Bales

[johnna holloway]

Johnnae llyn Lewis sends greetings.

I just have to say that as someone who actually helped
put up both hay and straw in some god awful temperatures
when I was a teen-ager and living at home
that $5.00 a bale for straw delivered to an event like
Pennsic is not that far out of line. Straw is a major pain-in-
the a-- to bail because at least in Illinois it was always
a mid-July operation. Given the lack of farm labor/teen-age
help, most farmers have gone to the big round bales or the
big compressed stacks for hay. Straw in those small bales
requires getting out the old equipment and hiring help to
work the hay wagons and  lift  & stack it bail by bail in
the barns or sheds. It's hot tiring work.

Johnna Holloway

> >
> > Daniel Raoul, who for many years many years ago merchanted Pennsic.  He
> > remembers over priced hay bales, hay bail tariffs, hay bale smugglers and
> > other strangeness.
>Stefan li Rous wrote:
> The straw bales at first glance do seem expensive, but they are brought
> onsite, someone is there to sell them and the $5/bale includes the
> disposal cost. I've been buying a bale for several years to break apart
> and use in my mattrass sack.
>
> Daniel, I'd love to hear more details about these previous mis-adventures
> with the hay/straw bales for my Pennsic history file.
> --
> THLord  Stefan li Rous    Barony of Bryn Gwlad    Kingdom of Ansteorra
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