[AT] Slightly OT: horse drawn implements

[Gene Dotson]

    This is not a hay loader. It is a shook loader and what they are loading 
are the bundles of wheat that were cut in the first video.

                Gene



----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Alan Nadeau" <ajnadeau1 at verizon.net>
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Sent: Friday, November 30, 2007 5:44 PM
Subject: Re: [AT] Slightly OT: horse drawn implements


> Hay loaders were before my time, that video is the first time I've seen 
> one
> in operation.
>
> While I've seen a bunch of then rusting away on farms I have never seen 
> one
> that used the chain conveyor to load the hay.  The only ones I've seen had 
> a
> metal tray (for want of a better word) that the hay slid up, propelled by
> what looked like rake tines on bars that raun up the inclined tray.  Those
> bars were on a series of offsets on a shaft that kept them moving to push
> the hay upwards.  Pretty ingenious mechanism, as each bar moved it dipped
> down towards the tray and pushed upwards, then it was lifted clear of the
> hay and moved back down for another bite.
>
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