Making Loose Hay

[Big Bud guy]

Here it is.  Actually found a picture of one.

https://www.bigiron.com/Lots/JohnDeere00200HayStackShredderFeeder

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[kansas farmer]

 My dad putting up loose hay in the late 40's in Kansas with our Farmall F 20

[augercreek]

I can watch this kind of stuff all day ! Thanks ever so much for posting these.

[Diesel Doctor]

7' New Idea mower done the mowing on a Farmall H.

IH Dump Rake did the raking behind a Super H.

A New Holland side delivery rake slid the windrow over to dry.

A 460D was inside a F10 Farmhand. Hay basket has square steel teeth and no push off.

Dad never used a stack frame and some stacks got to big.

Those were the ones he went to with the loader and trailer,  in the winter to get hay for the cows.

Dad stayed in the stack and the boys ran the 460.

It was a nice way of putting up hay and it kept well as the rounded stacks let water run off.

Would have a stack mover come in, pickup the stack and move it home for winter feed.

 

PS: I worked for uncle for a summer. He had a stack frame. I topped out 110 stacks of hay which was old Soil Bank that had come out. A lot of hay. I was in far better shape then. I never got into the stack until the hay was at the top of the stack frame. He was running a 656 gas hydro utility with a Duall loader. He had a Ford pickup turned around backwards, with a hay bucker on it. That thing would push up hay at 40 mph. One guy on that could bury two loaders working at the stack in short order. Had the wooden teeth and rarely broke on. We wore many a foot off the ends of the teeth that summer.

 

 

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[dads706]

U-C, keep them coming. I enjoy every one.

A question or two...... I notice in these videos that many of the farm yards seemed to be paved. Is this a usual practice and why? Here it would be gravel.

I may have asked this before... do these farmers own that land? Or do they lease it from someone else or from the government? Or is that grass just there for anyone to use?

Switzerland/Austria has always been on my bucket list. 

[TractormanMike.mb]

On 7/17/2017 at 12:39 AM, U-C said:

I haven't posted anything on this thread for a while now and thought to post this film from 1947:

 

 

The dairy farm I worked at had a loft with a wind tunnel set up like in that video in the original barn. It was a pretty neat system. They used it until the early 2000s when they built a new calf barn that was more labor efficient. We would fill the loft with chopped loose hay and run the fan in the tunnel for two weeks after filling. You could hear that fan from a mile away.

[Mike H]

built a small loft over the farrowing pen this summer.

spaced the 2x6 deck boards 2'' for the air flow

put some cut clover up there about a foot deep and let it dry

had to turn it twice but the finished hay is awesome

the leaves were still attached to the stems and no mold.

adding the duct and blower under the floor  this winter wen time permits

Mike

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On 10/24/2019 at 9:45 AM, dads706 said:

U-C, keep them coming. I enjoy every one.

A question or two...... I notice in these videos that many of the farm yards seemed to be paved. Is this a usual practice and why? Here it would be gravel.

I may have asked this before... do these farmers own that land? Or do they lease it from someone else or from the government? Or is that grass just there for anyone to use?

Switzerland/Austria has always been on my bucket list. 

So far as I know the farm yards are paved or have stone slaps or at least infront of the Buildings, I think its to keep it clean or I mean to clean the easier and that it doesn't get muddy infront of the barn. The Tenant farm we had the old barn and the newer barn both had only infront of them cement but the rest was gravel. In parts of Switzerland the multi purpose farmhouse was common (barn, house and shed under one roof). 

The land is owned by the farmers most times or they rent a view acres from a retired farmer just like here in North America. There are some farmers that rent a farm too, like we did before moving to Canada.

You should visit Switzerland and if ya do get one of does train tickets where ya can go on all trains. Ya can travel by train from the airport  I wouldn't use a car because roads can be a little stressful especially with them roundabouts lol

 

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Bucher Self loading wagon

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Steyr Tractor and Steyr Hamster Self loading wagon. A farmer made this SP out of the two LOL. The Steyr Tractor brand is part of the CNH group

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The first hay blowers for loose hay came on the Swiss market around the 1950s one of the first companies was AEBI and Lanker (both no longer make them but others still do but they look different though) 

[Willie B]

In my childhood My sister & I shared a horse. She rode it, I shoveled $hit, cut hay, piled hay, fed hay, & trucked water.

Our father grew up on a farm. He already knew how. 

Much of the time someone had already mowed the hay, Other times we used a scythe. Drying, you'd imagine how it is done. The picking up was what amazed me. It got hand raked into small piles 6' diameter & 18" high. I was amazed that dad could fork a whole pile in one lift. He had a system. The forkfuls of hay were loaded on a flat trailer maybe 6x8. Four forks on the four corners, one in center. By the time he had piled on the trailer, it was 8' tall 12'wide. 

At home we had no hay mow. It got piled to shed weather. The stack was shaped like the trailer loads, but much higher, probably 16' tall. A small tarp kept rain & snow off the top. 

[Willie B]

In my childhood My sister & I shared a horse. She rode it, I shoveled $hit, cut hay, piled hay, fed hay, & trucked water.

Our father grew up on a farm. He already knew how. 

Much of the time someone had already mowed the hay, Other times we used a scythe. Drying, you'd imagine how it is done. The picking up was what amazed me. It got hand raked into small piles 6' diameter & 18" high. I was amazed that dad could fork a whole pile in one lift. He had a system. The forkfuls of hay were loaded on a flat trailer maybe 6x8. Four forks on the four corners, one in center. By the time he had piled on the trailer, it was 8' tall 12'wide. 

At home we had no hay mow. It got piled to shed weather. The stack was shaped like the trailer loads, but much higher, probably 16' tall. A small tarp kept rain & snow off the top. 

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