I have spent a lot of time staking hay bales in the hay loft of dairy barns at farms belonging to various relatives in Wisconsin. Also some time on trailers/wagons following the baler. It was usually during "Vacation" but when you show up and expect to be fed and have a place to sleep, they tend to put you to work.
Here is a photo of me going up the "elevator" into the loft on one occasion.
Speaking of working vacations, when my father-in-law a his cousins get together they reminisce about their visits to their grand parents farm in southern Virginia. The "reunions" always seemed to coincide with the tobacco harvest. They cut the leaves, loaded them on to sledges pulled by mules, tied the leaves to poles to hang in the tobacco barns to be dried, tending the fires that heated the tobacco barn...etc. The tobacco barn was really a log cabin with no windows and a fire place on the out side to heat the place for drying the leaves. However there was one job they all wanted. It was called dobbing. They would mix a bucket of mud and close themselves into a tobacco barn, before the leaves were hung up, which would be almost pitch black inside. Wherever they saw light coming in between the logs or roof shingles they would throw a glob of mud into the crack if it was out of reach or even if it was in reach, just for the challenge.