Loading hay

SVcummins · Mar 23, 2019

...

Charlie M · Mar 23, 2019

I've got one of those old hay loaders and get it out to play with once in a while. Mine is an IH loader. In my younger days I remember doing about 8 acres of hay with one for a couple of beef cows I had bought. Take the wagon to barn and unload at with the old hay forks. We had sold off the dairy part of the farm, including machinery. We had a BN tractor, old Oliver hay rake no one bought, wagon and a horse drawn mowing machine I had bought. I guess that is how I got interested in the old machinery. The guys in the video are moving as fast as I run a hay baler these days.

Kansas4010 · Mar 23, 2019

My uncle has one of those sitting in his fence row. He called it a pop up bale loader. I remember seeing it as a little kid and wondering how it worked. His was mostly wood and the last time I saw it there wasn't much left.

K Effective · Mar 23, 2019

We had the remains of two back by the burn pile as a kid. I always assumed the loader went in front of the wagon...

showcrop · Mar 23, 2019

I recall them being in use as a kid. I would like to have one and have twice made inquiries into some on the road side, but the price has been to high for what was there.

showcrop · Mar 23, 2019

It is apparently the first time handling a pitch fork for the guy on the wagon. The first time they stopped I saw the whip in the drivers hand and I though that the was about to use it on the guy on the wagon, LOL. That is a lot faster than they went when being drawn by a tractor or by a truck as my uncle used to do it.

welled · Mar 23, 2019

Restored and still have the hay loader I used as a young lad. We do use it every few years. There is a technique to stacking the hay on the wagon. Some hay comes of the loader rather loose and is stacked in the center. I always looked for hay that came off in a nice tighter roll that could be stacked in the corners and edge with the looser hay in the center. Usually able to get loads 10 or so feet higher. Dad liked them nice and square. Brings back good memories of jumping in the pond after a hot day of loading hay and using slings to get it in the barn.

Dick L · Mar 23, 2019

Those cows walk faster than the fellow can tromp in the hay. I don't see the he actually knows that the hay needs tromped over the length and width of the load. I watched a video of woman tromping in a load wearing a dress. It was in Europe somewhere in mountains where the load was moved on side hills and well as up and down hills. They loaded with pitch forks with the wagon not moving though. When we made loose hay Dad was the loader and tromped in the hay on the move as he loaded even across the slings. Grandpaw drove the tractor slower than the cows walked. I was to young to watch him when he used horses as I was 3 when he bought his first tractor and sold the horses.

Philip d · Mar 23, 2019

I?ve always wondered how those actually worked,thank you for sharing!

showcrop · Mar 23, 2019

(quoted from post at 05:46:58 03/23/19) Those cows walk faster than the fellow can tromp in the hay. I don't see the he actually knows that the hay needs tromped over the length and width of the load. I watched a video of woman tromping in a load wearing a dress. It was in Europe somewhere in mountains where the load was moved on side hills and well as up and down hills. They loaded with pitch forks with the wagon not moving though. When we made loose hay Dad was the loader and tromped in the hay on the move as he loaded even across the slings. Grandpaw drove the tractor slower than the cows walked. I was to young to watch him when he used horses as I was 3 when he bought his first tractor and sold the horses.

He also needs to pitch it properly. In order to get a good fork full you have to push into it from the side, then lift up and then DOWN into it beyond. This enables you to get a good amount, easily 75 lbs onto a fork, and it is tight so that you can then lift it overhead as high as you can reach, and it is also a tight bundle that you can then PLACE onto a specific spot on the wagon. Loose hay loads are built with overlap of of these bundles in a specific pattern which the stacker always repeats so that when the fork drops from the overhead pulley he can guide it to the correct spot on the wagon for the next bundle. As he carries each bundle during loading he takes a specific path inorder to compact the load.

Crazy Horse · Mar 23, 2019

Click the link below to see a photo of NHL's Chicago Blackhawk hall of famer Bobby Hull working on his farm back in the 60's. The first ones should be the ones I refer to. Good old Canadian farm kid. These were the days before the ultra modern work out facilities (and steroids, etc) and personal trainers these athletes experience nowadays. Nothing like a little bit of farm work to develop the old biceps ..... ha! He turns 80 this year.
Bobby Hull .... working out on his farm

shinnery · Mar 24, 2019

I like this Hay Loader.........barefoot even.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fIVAlV8YVF0&feature=youtu.be

modirt · Mar 24, 2019

(quoted from post at 00:57:20 03/24/19) I like this Hay Loader.........barefoot even.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fIVAlV8YVF0&feature=youtu.be

Looks like she has grown up a bit. I believe this was the same girl a few years before......

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dVv597m848s

And I believe this is her mother.......

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_sYyGwc9sas

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=46Zn7pfNVCo

I believe these are Canadians in Nova Scotia.

I'm wondering if this is what farming under the new Green Deal is gonna look like?

Loading hay

SVcummins

Well-known Member

Charlie M

Well-known Member

Kansas4010

Well-known Member

K Effective

Well-known Member

showcrop

Well-known Member

showcrop

Well-known Member

welled

Member

Dick L

Well-known Member

Philip d

Well-known Member

showcrop

Well-known Member

Crazy Horse

Well-known Member

shinnery

Well-known Member

modirt

Member

Similar threads