[AT] Oliver 880 @ auction (hay stacking)

[dfolske at nccray.net]

Before we got the Farmhands, Dad and Grandpa had a "Jayhawk ".  
It was similar to hay hay sweep or buck rake in that it was pushed 
around the field with a tractor or quite often with an old cut down 
car or truck. But the Jayhawk had a large frame built so that when 
you brought hay to the stack you engaged a winch connected to the 
wheels and cables so the sweep raised and you could put the hay 
on the top of the stack. Prior to that they used an "overshot" like 
Larry talked about.

Here is a link to a photo of a Jayhawk mounted on a JD A

http://www.sparkytractor.com/images/Bowman/jayhwk.JPG


On 25 Jan 2005 at 0:48, Ralph Goff wrote:
 
> In the early days of farming here loose hay was the only system known. But
> not with the type of machinery most of you have discussed. About the first
> "farm implement" my Dad got me to drive was the old "horse rake". A two
> wheeled steel tined device originally designed to pull with a team of
> horses. Dad would hitch it to the Cockshutt 50 and I had the great
> responsibility of riding  the rake perched up on the old iron seat with
> nothing to hang on to but a lever. I learned to step on the trip pedal just
> right so the tines would lift and drop the hay in a pile. I think we only
> did this for one year before going to the more modern side delivery rake.
> Originally all those loose hay piles from the dump rake would have to be
> "coiled" by a man with a hay fork. Then picked up and loaded onto the hay
> rack (again by hand with a fork) and hauled to the yard and stacked in a
> spot convenient to the barn for easy feeding in the winter, where it was
> handled one more time by hand with the hay fork. The old timers must have
> worn out a few fork handles in their day.
>