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Putting up loose hay


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Grandpa told stories before the hay loaders of riding on slip pulled but horse and pitching loose hay on a wagon with arm and pitchfork can you imagine the excitement of getting a hay loader ? I just can?t figure out who would dislike that video bunch of young kids I guess.
 
The last tractor drive I attended in Wisconsin I saw SEVEN working hay loaders on Amish hay fields. The last Michigan drive also saw an Amish farm supply store with two NEW hay loaders, did not get close enough to see the maker's name on them though.
 
(quoted from post at 11:44:22 07/25/19) Pretty neat video
Sickle mower and hay loader
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Been there, did that, about 50 years ago.

It SUCKED then, and I can't see it being any more fun now!

I still have the hay loader, a "Minnesota", made at the state prison at Stillwater.

It's available CHEAP , if anyone would like to get it back in working condition and "enjoy" using it!
 
Thanks for posting, actually only about 20 miles from where I grew up in NE Washington. Looks like a lot of work but I confess I have a McCormick deering one setting in front of the house waiting for me to get around to making new sticks for it.
 
I?m glad someone has enough guts to do it most of these have been sent to scrap and then someday when they are all gone all we will have is picture books kinda like combines nobody wants them either
 
They are gonna sure be surprised at what that hay looks like when they take those tarps off it this winter. In this area it would be rotten and moldy. We stacked a lot of our hay when I was a kid and it was topped out so the rain would run off the stack. Dad and Grandpa would tie heavy objects and put them over the top, one going across and one going lengthwise to keep wind from blowing the hay off the top. he always grew cred top clover and timothy hay and had very little spoilage, It was the young'uns job (but we thought it was them letting us have fun) tromping the center down then we could slide down off the stack when it was done. I prefer the baler now, easier and a lot quicker too. Our wagons were made a lot different with the inside being lower than the outside so the hay could be tromped down and would stay on the wagons, There was never any hay let drag on the ground like they were doing, but I applaud the for trying and working to do their own hay. Keith
 

It s been a while since seeing that video . She is a machine . No idea why they put up loose hay instead of small squares .
 
(quoted from post at 09:31:23 07/26/19)
It s been a while since seeing that video . She is a machine . No idea why they put up loose hay instead of small squares .
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Maybe they don't have a TV.
 
(quoted from post at 05:56:26 07/27/19) First time I unflaked a square bale and saw the volume I said handling loose hay is a joke!
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Neighbor said he remembers guys first buying square balers in the 60's and pitching out the barn into the baler to get more room. When they put the baled hay back in, it took up the same amount of room in the mow...
 
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