[AT] HayWagon build up.
Grant Brians
sales at heirloom-organic.com
Fri Nov 3 12:24:26 PDT 2017
I think I mentioned years ago on the list that I have relatives in
Illinois. When I visited them in the 60's, my greatuncles used the hay
wagons like the pictured one in the start of this thread with the
"little tiny light bales" that were baled there. Of course as all of the
long time list members know that bale description is because three wire
bales were the norm here in California until the changeover to synthetic
twine in the 80s and even then the bales were still no lighter than 17
to the ton usually.
I remember helping cousins stack some of those two twine bales
when I was 7 years old.... Even then I could move them. If it had been a
California bale that would not have worked. Some of those Illinois farms
used conveyors to get the bales into their haylofts (another item we do
not have except in a very, very few barns). and I remember watching a
man toss them from the wagon bed up into the opening of the hayloft on a
farm where he was not using a conveyor. Looking back I realize how he
must have been REALLY sturdy even with the light bales to do that. Maybe
he was showing off to the kids like me at the time?
In those visits in the 1960s, I saw lots of those hay wagons but
did not ever pull one as my relatives only trusted me to "drive" the
tractors without a trailer. Remember I was 5 when I "drove" for the
first time and I did not buy my first tractor until I was 14 years old.
I did regularly drive the tractors and trucks that belonged to the
farmer I started working for as a 14 year old after school and on summer
break. I had to speak Spanish though because most of his employees were
from Mexico and not able to speak English. I remember the first time I
was moving irrigation pipe with those workers and had to carry and load
one half of each 40' or 50' pipe that was 8" or 10" in diameter. Even
though they were Aluminum, that is a bit of weight and slightly awkward
for a 14 year old who the previous year had lived in a suburb and market
gardened an acre....
Grant Brians - Hollister,California farmer
On 11/1/2017 4:47 PM, John Hall wrote:
> Grant, if you have never seen those, then you may well be surprised to
> see hay wagons with tandem rear axles and even tandem front axles. I've
> been around lots of wagons, but only in the last few years did I ever
> see a tandem rear axle setup and it was on Craigslist. Just this summer
> I saw an ad for a new wagon with tandem front and rear (I assume it is a
> 5th wheel style). You would be hard pressed to use anything that big
> here as our fields are so "twisty" you would have a hard time keeping
> the load on. I have to be careful as it is if I fill a wagon full (125
> bales) so I can get to the shed without losing some as the 2 ways to the
> shed are both downhill and a pretty serious twist.
>
> John Hall
>
>
> On 11/1/2017 11:00 AM, Grant Brians wrote:
>> That looks like a nice solid trailer. Here in California I have never
>> seen a John Deere or Oliver or IH Hay Wagon. Lots of shopmade and trucks
>> were and are used, though.
>> Grant Brians - Hollister,California farmer
>>
>> On 10/30/2017 5:39 PM, John Hall wrote:
>>> Deere wagon, mid to late 70's model.
>>>
>>> John Hall
>>>
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