[AT] Hay loading video

[Larry D Goss]

You and I are the same vintage, George.  I was wondering why I remember 
using a hay loader as a kid and nobody else on the list seems to.  Our 
neighbor, George Gilleff, had horses and a full complement of horse-drawn 
equipment for farming.  We did share farming between the neighbors in those 
days.  George typically got a portion of each cutting of hay in exchange for 
helping us harvest it.  I got the experience of driving the horses while 
George pitched hay around the wagon as it came off the loader.  We had a hay 
fork and carrier installed in our barn, but George used slings.  We would 
start with one sling spread out on the floor of the empty wagon and then add 
two more as the wagon filled up.  When we headed to the barn, the whole 
wagon could be loaded into the hay mow in just three loads.  George had a 
bank barn, but it only had an entry on one side.  Those poor horses did not 
like having to back that loaded wagon up the bank to park it in the alley. 
But they also walked slow enough when pulling the loader that George didn't 
have to work too fast to keep up.

Larry

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "George Willer" <gwill at gwill.net>
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Sent: Friday, October 26, 2007 7:57 AM
Subject: Re: [AT] Hay loading video


That's the only way we made hay on the home farm.  When I left home about 40
head of cattle and the hay equipment left too.

George Willer

> -----Original Message-----
> From: at-bounces at lists.antique-tractor.com [mailto:at-
> bounces at lists.antique-tractor.com] On Behalf Of David A. Laughead Jr.
> Sent: Friday, October 26, 2007 12:24 PM
> To: Antique tractor email discussion group
> Subject: Re: [AT] Hay loading video
>
> There is one of those hay loaders in junk condition at a friend of mine's
> house with trees growing through it.
>
> I showed the video to him, he enjoyed seeing what that machine was for.
>
> Dave
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Cecil Bearden" <crbearden at copper.net>
> To: "Antique tractor email discussion group" <at at lists.antique-
> tractor.com>
> Sent: Friday, October 26, 2007 5:16 AM
> Subject: Re: [AT] Hay loading video
>
>
> I have been around horse drawn equipment, but I have never seen a hay
> loader like that here in OKlahoma.  However, Oklahomans are famous for
> doing things the hardest way possible.
>
> Cecil in OKla
>
> JTakemoto at wildblue.net wrote:
> > When I was a kid on the farm we had 5 acres of loose hay that we raked
> > with a bull rake into rows then loaded by hand onto a truck, watching
> that
> > poor gal work with that loader i think we did it easier without the
> fancy
> > loader.
> >
> > J.
> >
> >
> >
> >> Thanks for sharing!
> >> Real neat.
> >>
> >> Mattias
> >>
> >>
> >> 2007/10/25, Bill Brueck <b2 at chooka.net>:
> >>
> >>> Not exactly tractor, but of the same vintage...a friend sent me this
> >>> video
> >>> of loading hay that's pretty neat.  I'm forwarding the link with his
> >>> permission.
> >>>
> >>> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qVz0OkJmMeI
> >>>
> >>> B²
> >>>
> >>> Bill Brueck
> >>>   Chatfield, Minnesota, USA
> >>>
> >>> Confusion is a higher state of knowledge than ignorance.
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