Joy Ufford photos

BONDURANT – It takes a lot of small but important chores to keep the big picture – and antique equipment – running smoothly during the Campbells’ haying season in Hoback Basin. The family still puts up fresh-dried grass hay into “loose” haystacks that are actually anything but, the hay being carefully pitched, overlapped in layers and stacked until it’s shaped into the tall, wide loaves visible from Highway 191. These chores took place Sunday morning to prepare for the day’s work. Come winter, a tractor and horse teams with will pull up to the side of a haystack and using a hay digger, a tractor retrofitted with a hydraulic crane and jaws, carefully undo the stack and load hay onto a large sleigh or wheeled wagon.