Our neighbor was telling us that when he was a boy he remembered stackin' up a huge haystack around a pole while he and his siblings stomped it down as they piled it higher and higher. Then they put a tarp over the top of it to keep it dry.

Sounded like a plan to us--and we even had a spare pole to use in our backyard--and plenty of little stompers! It was originally put up by the previous owners to hang flower baskets on, but it was in such a weird spot behind the house...unable to be seen from basically every angle....and all the hooks were falling off as well. So no love loss there! Why not just use it for hay...??

Look at how much hay that hay rake can tote!


And here's how it's constructed--cedar posts, fastened with metal posts with board planks on top...

Now all we need is a bigger tarp...and about 105 more of these contraptions!