Making Loose Hay

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[Absent Minded Farmer]

On 6/18/2024 at 12:23 PM, U-C said:

 

Ohhhh! This Loose Hay post. I thought you had posted pictures of your plugged up inverter. 

Mike

[U-C]

On 8/19/2024 at 7:07 PM, Absent Minded Farmer said:

Ohhhh! This Loose Hay post. I thought you had posted pictures of your plugged up inverter. 

Mike

That was over two decades ago lol, if smartphones existed and had one sure would of taken a pic of it lol

[arizonian]

Still making loose hay in Wyoming at 84.

 

Loose hay

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[U-C]

On 5/2/2017 at 11:56 AM, Old Binder Guy said:

I grew up with loose hay. It was all done with horses before I came along. It was mowed with Farmalls and mowers in my lifetime.

Early on, we used dump rakes. We then went to side delivery rakes. We had one or two motorized buckrakes or "bullrakes" as they were known on our place.

Originally they used a farmhand loader on a Farmall. They realized they needed to build the F-10 Farmhand loader onto reversed trucks. It speeded up the operation and cut the time in half.

In winter I'd chain up the dual wheels, put the grapple fork head and feed off of the stack with it. We'd winter the cows in the field of the haystack. 

We never had a swather in my time. That would have been the cat's meow too.

While I worked for Bourke Motor & Implement Company in 1974 & 75, we also sold a Hesston "bread loaf" system that was quite expensive, but I did sell a set to a large cattle operation near there.

John Hanson, thanks for explaining the "beaverslide" stackers. They are still used in the Avon area, here near Helena.

Gary or OBG
PS: U-C what part of Switzerland are you from? My grandmother was from Andermatt.

First time me and Gary (old binder guy) talked to, a few days or a week later more often on Facebook

Rest In Peace Gary 

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some of tools used today to push down the hay from the hills didn't exist when we where kids back than the old trusty hand hayrake was still used, which keeps kids busy 

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[naedlaen]

@U-C is the family movie your family?  If it is, please share more about where and the breed of horse.

Thanks,

Neal

[U-C]

13 hours ago, naedlaen said:

@U-C is the family movie your family?  If it is, please share more about where and the breed of horse.

Thanks,

Neal

no its not my family someone else had posted that video on youtube

I'm Swiss and we put up loose hay differently, ya have to check threw the posts on here to see them  

 

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[Lazy WP]

We had a smaller one of these. 
 

https://www.facebook.com/share/v/1EQB5tmA6N/?mibextid=wwXIfr