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Took those elevated action shots for advertising brocures, back in the early fifties. Genies etc. were not invented yet. Ran across this pic in a Case brocure I have, when looking for some info.
Ithought it was a pretty interesting pic. As you can see, all the people in the eagle's nest, are propperly teathered in with OSHA aproved equip.HeHe
Loren, the Acg.

Bro, must have been another VAC with "Eagle Vision" platform like at the rear of this pic

That is a neat picture!!!

You would think that all the old timer died doing the things they did with out OSHA. There where more injuries and such but they go way too far today. In many cases you can't do the job after the OSHA guys design "approved" safty gear/shields.

Loren, I have a photo of an auction at our place in the 30's or early 40's, same king of angle, best I can figure is the house next door was being built and someone climbed up onto it, or possibly the sun room roof. I have got to gather all these up and post what I have, really enjoy the old photos people post here.

Relative to that, I just recently saw an old implement taken out of a barn for sale, it looked just like the part of an old baler, the part that lifts the hay up, and or maybe something else, but something someone had posted working in windrows showing this elevator what you call it that lifted the hay, had a work platform for someone to stand on. If they could post it again, I'd be sure as to a match, this implement would easily work again, was in nice shape, ironic that something in an old photo someone posted, showed up for sale about the same time, people probably had no idea what it was.

Low and behold I found it !!!!! See attached link
Vintage Harvester

Sorry about the handle, that darned suffix won't leave the field of entry and sometimes I forget to leave it, was related to my leg surgery last year, Rich (Old) made a comment (nick name) and I thought it would be funny to post as that during that time, but now I'm healed up and it no longer applies.

Firefox sometimes retains things like this, have no idea how to keep it from defaulting with this as my user name.

I think the pic is what we always called a hay loader- you hooked a wagon on the back, and pulled it from the front, straddling the windrow. Its not a platform for someone to stand on the top, just an extension to get the hay back far enough to fall onto the wagon.

Later ones would attach to the front of a truck, and had no rear wheels (and usually no flat extension on top)- just pulled the hay up at an angle over the cab, and dropped it on the two unfortunate boys in the back who had to distribute it into a stack that would survive the trip back to the barn without falling off.

We used a hayloader like that Vintage Harvester back in the early 50s . Horses pulling the wagon and the loader hooked behind the wagon. The small wheels are the front , the reel on the back picks up the hay from the windrow deposits it on the conveyor with the wood cross slats and rope. Then the hay goes up the conveyor and over the rear rack on the haywagon falls on the floor then DAD has to "make load" distributing it around the wagon so the hay fork at the barn with it's system of ropes and pulleys will haul it up into the hay mow. Usually about 4 good fork fulls.
Keep it inside or you will spend a lot of time replacing ropes and wood slats

Grand dad had a Case loader that used rope and slats. I can just remember dad getting the wagon out and getting the racks ready for loose hay. I would have been pretty small. I'd love to have that in my museum!

That is interesting. I've seen elevated platforms on pickup trucks too.

A hay loader of that design was hooked behind the wagon, not in front. Hay came up over the back of the wagon and was leveled by the crew.

Camera on a stick with remote shutter release?

I had a camera about that vintage and it came equipped with one.

The release, not the stick .

Brad

Thats a nice piece, I'm always "eye'ing" things like this, soon as I saw it I knew I had seen one before on YT. In the area where it was listed was all farm land, all flat, sandy/loam no rocks, and an expansive area, the town of Colonie, NY was rumored to be or is the largest town by size, maybe some odd ball criteria or legitimately so, in the U.S.

The problem was people, most of it was densely developed, commercial business, too many darned subdivisions, now an international airport. There were some farmer hold outs for years and I still see vegetables planted, newly cleared areas not far from the airport, and 1 thats been there since day one, the soil alone is just incredible, you cross the river, steep hills, gravel, clay, good top soils, but rocky, shale outcrops, and all kinds of variations including clean gravel deposits with rich top soil overburden. They developed the easy terrain first, destroyed all the ag land, and now are pushing development in areas like where I live and the terrain is not friendly, no stopping this nonsense it seems.

Reason I mention, it this must have come out of one of the many barns that did survive, there was a large shaker colony/clan or compound/farm or what the heck you call it on the other side of the airport and the barns are something to appreciate. There are also some barns left scattered around, place where they recently built a post office was a farm house, barns and some fields, I'd have been happy to own that place, suburban farming, in that soil. Relative to speculation of where this one was found, had to be one of the above, given the history of that area. One farm sold out and moved over here, bottom land near a large creek, I used to do hay up on the opposite embankment, I think they're nuts trading off that good ground, must have been a fair amount to give that up, the rocks I have picked off that field behind them are huge and seemingly infinite.

It would be a "right" fit for your museum or anyones for that matter, hope he put it back inside somewhere.

Since most farms had an elevator I assumed the camera man climbed up to the end of an elevator and was pulled around on that to get the pictures. The tractor/truck platforms were probably better and much safer.

It's cheaper than a helicopter. One year on the harvest our combines were used for promo pics for the company's advertising. The photographer hung out the side of a little helicopter circling the combines for an hour or so. The photographer said he took three Drammamines before he went up and that almost wasn't enough. Jim

Since most farms had an elevator I assumed the camera man climbed up to the end of an elevator and was pulled around on that to get the pictures. The tractor/truck platforms were probably better and much safer.

There was a black and white photo of one of these working witgh another implement or something on here recently, where some men were up top, wish I could find it, surprised this ad was still up and I found it, interesting history.

I think there is a hint in the photo itself. Look at the tractor in the background, 4 people are standing on an elevated platform thats connected to the tractor and it looks like its the same height as the picture was taken from.

The picture is too low to be taken from my first guess which was from a kite. They have been taking pictures from kites for well over 100 years.

Rich,
My post was refering to the platform on the Case VAC. Perhaps the guy on the far right with his arm extended, was flying a Kite with onboard camera, but I don't think that technology was available in 1956.
Loren, the Acg.