Re: For some old farm boys...
[Re: Hatchetman]
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07/22/20 10:03 PM
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QuietButDeadly
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Our barn had the rail with a U shaped fork with fingers that pivoted to hold the hay when the rope got tight. I barely remember handling loose hay though. I do remember handling bales. We got a wire tie baler with an air cooled motor. That motor was a pain to get cranked but when it ran, that machine would pack way too much hay in those wires and they would eat your hands up too. We tried using the rail system for bales but it was too slow and cumbersome. Adjustable angle elevators with hay extensions were much more efficient but stacking it in the barn was a hot, nasty job.
I did most of the stacking on the wagon in the field and usually got to unload the wagon onto the elevator.
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Re: For some old farm boys...
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07/22/20 10:13 PM
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Growing up neighbors worked together and we used a fork for square bales and each barn was set up different. I usually helped stick the forks or was out loading the wagons. Hardly any cattle around here anymore all grain farmers now.
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Re: For some old farm boys...
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07/23/20 07:51 AM
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Very interesting video, thanks for posting.
I worked on various farms as hired help through my teens and twenties. Everything was already mechanized by then but that didn't make the farmers any less tough. Most of the farmers I worked for were missing fingers from trying to clear jams in mechanized balers.
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Re: For some old farm boys...
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07/23/20 08:01 AM
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That sure is a fancy way to load the wagon in the field. We used pitch forks, one on each side of the wagon where we had put the windrows up in "shocks". At the barn our hay lift was called a "spider" and it had 3 arms on each side. We also, as just about everybody in the south did, used mules instead of horses. I was just about grown before we had "baled" hay, and then it was tied with baling "wire". Talk about hard on your hands!! Hard work no doubt. I suppose your lift should have been called a "bug".
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