Exactly.

A few blocks, on the bottom, with soft bales... and you've got a slow-motion mess. Block after block slooooooowly falls over, falling out of the barn. The blocks become so distorted that you can't pull them out of the barn with a squeeze.

The only way to clean  up the situation is to climb up on the top blocks and gently toss down bale after bale after bale... and re-build the squeeze blocks on the ground. What I've got is 12 blocks on the bottom, 12 blocks (or partial blocks) on the top that have to come out to finish this. At 64 bales per block, that's 1,536 bales I have to hump into place.

This year, when I planted triticale and baled it, I turned the pressure on the baler up so that I got 140lb bales. I wanted rock-solid bricks this time. The heck with light bales. I wanted bricks that would stand up forever, even after the squeeze has been on them.

As for the whisky -- it is single malt Scotch.  Balvenie, double wood, 12 year. Simple glass tumbler. Two fingers' worth.

Life is too short to drink paint thinner.