haying

1. noun, the act of making hay; 2. attributive; see also haying season, haying time

1.
“We’re into haying. I’m haying right now. I was cutting hay about five minutes ago, and I will when I leave here again. And we’re enjoying it. It’s a good way to make a living.”

“Len had the only radio around the neighbourhood in the time of the war, and I remember this quite vividly. Any time that Len came up to visit us, my father would stop anything he was doing. He might be plowing. He might be haying, whatever, went in put the tea on. ‘What’s the news of the war?'”

“I didn’t really like haying very much because haying was so hot. The one thing about it, they used to have cold glasses of Freshie for us at about five o’clock before supper. As youngsters we never did get paid, but we were always told that, you know, we could have food for free, room and board, so.”

“We did some haying. Oh, another big thing was thrashing time.”

“The haying was hard that summer.”

“And having three boys and a girl … they’d help with the haying or the farm chores, and then on the weekend, Sundays, we’d go to the beach.”

“Somebody had to wash the milk cans, and if Mother had the water hot, Dad would do it before he went out to do his haying.”

“They done haying, and they used to have raspberries and gooseberries and currants and all that kind of thing.”

“And a lot of the boys had so much time off for farming, eh, back then for the haying and plowing and all that stuff, that your education suffered from that when we went to the city.”

“So what did you do after high school, did you work?”
“I finished with there in June, and I did nothing — only work on the farm, helped with the haying and everything.”

“I rented the farm first, and then you and the kids done the haying.”

“She would help with the haying.”

“I remember the haying in the early years. We used to just pick it up with a hay loader in the field loose without baling it.”

“I remember one of the worst times was when after I got the hay dryer, and I’d be starting haying in June, and there’d be all this dandelion fluff.”

“The farmers were all talking around the table. It was coming on dark, and they were talking about haying. ‘Well you got that forty done there yet?’. ‘Nope. Nope. We’ll maybe do it tomorrow, and we don’t do it tomorrow, it’ll be done the next week.’ ‘What do you think of that moon walking, Tom?’ ‘Oh, are they doing any haying up there?’ ‘I don’t think so.’ ‘Well, not interested then.’ I can remember that so clearly.”

2.
“Everything changed from thrashing to combines to haying equipment, and then it’s still changing all the time.”