[AT] Oliver 880 @ auction

[Dudley Rupert]

The only loose hay I ever saw put up was in Illinois right after the war
where one of the farmers in our neighborhood used a straight/dump rake to
put the mowed hay into piles, then he (and his help) pitched the hay by hand
onto a wagon and then they used the overhead track and fork in his barn to
lift the hay up into the mow.

So, needless to say, I've found this thread interesting and informative.
I've learned this contraption we're talking about could be called a hay
stacker and that it really does have a high lift capability.  But I am
curious, however, as to how the hay was brought in from the field to the
stacking area.  Was it brought using a wagon and then this hay stacker
unloaded the wagon and made the stack or was it some other way?

Still curious -

Dudley
Snohomish, Washington

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On 24 Jan 2005 at 15:02, Ralph Goff wrote:

>
> > The lift cylinders are the bottom tubes. They are longer than the
tractor
>
> I would guess you'd need a big oil reservoir on the tractor to operate one
> of these loaders with those long cylinders
>
If I remember right the reservoir on the loader was about 10
gallons, maybe even 12.
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