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jm. · Nov 28, 2017

O K guys my uncle goes off to a auction and brings this home.. about four foot by 6 + feet. looks old and like some kind of drying rack. I have never seen anything like it. Anyone have any ideas?

Mike(NEOhio) · Nov 28, 2017

It looks like a revolving hay rake. Horse drawn, The bar with the tines lays flat on the ground. As it gathers hay the operator tilts it so the tines dig in and it flips over leaving the hay in a windrow. May have some missing pieces.

jm. · Nov 28, 2017

Thanks Mike at least that is a start. I think this thing is genuine a very old. That may very well be , hard to believe it would have been used like that and survived but I sure do not know. I was cutting it short when I said 6 ft wide may be closer to 8 ft.

Leroy · Nov 28, 2017

Probably made by Huber in Marion, Ohio. Look up the Huber museum.

jm. · Nov 28, 2017

Leroy looked at the site and about one minute into their museum video sure did appear to be the exact same thing. Thanks for the reply.

Mike(NEOhio) · Nov 28, 2017

A little explanation is in order. Some years back the wife and I were volunteering at an event of the Century Village in Burton, Oh. She demonstrated basket making and I answered visitors questions in the wagon shed. One of them was hanging on the wall but I had no idea what it was when people would ask about it. A couple of years later we were at Malabar Farm for a weekend event and tractor show. We saw it and I asked what it was. The man was there from the Huber Museum in Marion and explained how it worked. I can't say if this one is a Huber, may be that other made them, too.

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