handwork

noun, work done with the hands, esp. as opposed to machinery (COD)

“First you had to unload them [hay bales] by hand, but there was still handwork up in the barns and stuff because you had to stow them neat, and it made it nicer in the wintertime too if they were stowed neat in the barn.”

“It was all handwork isn’t it?”
“It was all handwork, yeah. Well, the way Dad used to do it, he had a hay knife, so you cut the stack instead of taking the whole top off it; you’d take half it and then cut the stack in two.”