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My first paying job 1959 was driving a team of horses pulling a stacker. no photos, but today I found one setting just East of Gunnison CO. I think this type was called an overshot????There were also two old sweeps and two old dump rakes. SOMEDAY I want to make a model. Anyone got photo of them working.
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I don't have any pics, but the one that my Granpa patented sometime between 1912 & 1918 was more ruggedly built than that one. He sold the patent to JD before he left Iowa in 1918.

It was made with 4X8's and 4X6's. Very rugged and would make a taller stack than the one in your pics.

I started driving the team of horses to pull the hay up and over when I was 6 years old. No doubt the horses knew more about the job than I did.
 
Do you want a picture of the overshot working, a slide stacker in action, or horse drawn sweeps? There are a couple guys around here, with in a 100 miles, that still stack with horses. Everyone around here use the slide stacker though.
 
I learned to use a overshot with a team in 1950,the next year we changed to a fluid drive dodge pu. then to willys jeep they were quite popular in our area. last year we used a John Deere overshot was the fall of 1961.
In our area several workers were injured and a couple killed in the 65 years they were in common use.
 
Ours was also like you were talking about. Big lumber. I would guess the hay stacks were about 30' tall. I had to give my uncle a rid down on the stacker. I guy told be today the other type was known as a beaver slide.
 
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