[AT] Oliver 880 @ auction

[actractor]

 Oh, I'm sorry, this was all stacked outside in Eastern OR. It is so dry 
that you have little spoilage. Fed to the cattle out in the field, not in a 
barn. Beef cattle. Stacks were spaced throughout the field in convient 
locations. Usually in a location you could keep the flood irrigation off it. 
(under it). Might have a stack that is two different crops. If I remember 
right, we just kept building the stack alongside. The haybucks would run the 
windrows and deposit the piles near the stack for the stacker to stack. 
After a couple weeks or so the stack would settle down quite a bit. I think 
that is where the skill came into play and the reach of the Farmhand. Also 
have to remember it needs to be picked out. Our loader we used in winter to 
feed with didn't have any grapples like they do now. It's teeth were much 
shorter only a couple feet. Don't know how dad got it out of the stack, but 
do remember running the flashlight at night, as the G had no lights, and 
some loads were way smaller than others. Gosh, someone put a quarter in me. 
Got to get off here for now though.   Joel


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Dudley Rupert" <drupert at premier1.net>
To: "Antique tractor email discussion group" <at at lists.antique-tractor.com>
Sent: Monday, January 24, 2005 7:23 PM
Subject: RE: [AT] Oliver 880 @ auction


> 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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> dfolske at nccray.net
> Sent: Monday, January 24, 2005 2:15 PM
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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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