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[Dennis Johnson]

Loose hay Handling Equipment
When I was a boy I watched uncle put up loose hay in a barn. There was a large hay fork lift that would load a wagon, and wagon pulled by tractor would take it to the barn. The wagon had some sort of net on the bottom. A hoist system was on the barn that went up to the peak overhand, across the barn, down to a pulley near the ground, and then was pulled by a tractor to lift the hay into the barn loft.

Dennis

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> On Oct 29, 2019, at 10:06 PM, Greg Hass <ghass at m3isp.com> wrote:
> 
> Have been tossing this around for quite a while and would like list opinions from those who have farmed or been around the farm.  What machines or implements are you glad to see disappear or be used much less than before? While I could list several the one that stands out in my mind by far is the spring tooth harrow. While still being used some, and while they do a real good job of leveling, they were also a real pain in the a$$. Growing up into my 20's thats all we had and all they did was plug.  We had probably the worst brand ever made, a Case harrow.  It had 2 runners between every section and if it saw a cornstalk 50 feet away it would start plugging before you got there.  In either corn ground or sod the results were the same.  We always worked our fields what we called double kitty corner. In a 20 acre field, we would have to stop at all four corners and unplug the harrow by hand. We used a IH Super C and 3 section harrow (8 foot) and if not plowing we had a four section we pulled with an IH 350. In later years we bought an IH 401 harrow and 3 section equaled 12 feet and pulled it with an IH 504.  We though we had the world by the tail as it plugged much less but that was soon to end.  That harrow did not have replaceable ends; the next years model did, but my dad being stupidly cheap would not get new teeth but cut an extra notch for the handle allowing it to dig deeper but with the tooth being shorter, cut the clearance making it plug as bad as the old Case harrow.  For the past many years we have used a field cultivator which almost never plugs and I have no desire to go back to a spring tooth harrow.
>      Greg Hass
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