Hay Stacker frame

old · Jul 12, 2009

Way back when about 40 or so years ago I worked for/with a guy in the Leigh/Norfolk NE. area. He had this cage/frame sort of thing that had a door on the back and a tongue on the front. You filled it with loose hay to make a stack. Let it sit a few days then pulled it off. Guys name was Hank Meyers and his son was about the same age as me back then as in around 12 years old. Any how does any body know what I'm talking about and even better does any body have pictures of this thing. It had a set of wheels on it also so as to move it easy. I would love to build one so as to save some of my baling time.
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keh · Jul 12, 2009

I take it you don't want to fix up a Hesston hay stacker that is in SC?

KEH

old · Jul 12, 2009

Shoot that is way to far to go to get one since I live way out in Missouri and boy would it be hard to bring it that far.

keh · Jul 12, 2009

That's what I thought.

Daddy and I made hay stacks by hand, or pitchfork, when I was young. Stick a pole with the top end sharp in the ground, lay some limbs or scrap lumber down to keep the hay off the ground, pile hay up in a tapering circle, packing it down as you go. Hay kept well but it was a lot of work.

KEH

Anonymous-0 · Jul 12, 2009

Hey Old I know what you're talking about, I grew up in Clarkson east of Leigh 6-7 miles and I might know where some are at will do a little looking. I work in Norfolk now and live in Stanton. I frequent down in the Leigh/Clarkson area alot yet so will try and get a pic or two. Though the Meyer name doesn't ring a bell sorry. I know of one that was made into a manger fence for sure. chris

gregk · Jul 12, 2009

there is one siting in s. sioux city NE along the 77 bypass by Wal Mart. haven't looked at it to see what shape it is in

old · Jul 12, 2009

Ya Hank Meyer was a member if Zion Lutheran Church in Leigh. That church is/was on the main drag what little of it that was there. Hard a Lutheran school just up the street from it with a house between. Parsonage was across the street from the school. I know these things because at one time I lived in the parsonage since my dad was the preacher in that church. Guy who owned the IH dealer ship lived next door to the parsonage. Been 40 or so years since I was there

Anonymous-0 · Jul 12, 2009

I have one in North Dakota. We tell the kids it is a prairie dragon cage. Prairie dragons do not fly so there is no need to have a top on the cage. Prarie dragons are very dangerous, they eat children that mis-behave on the farm. Probably the only reason they still believe me is that they can't figure out what else it was for. They also think those F10 Farmhand loaders on the Farmalls are for changing light bulbs in the farm yard and gutting deer. One day I will have to tell them the whole story.

Big M · Jul 13, 2009

I saw one used for one cutting back in the early 1950"s. It was a Jayhawk Stacker, made in Salina KS. Some guys called it a Bull Rake. Pushed it with the front of a tractor untill you could not get anymore to pack into the wooden forks and then engage the lift cogs and get the whole load off the ground. Then drive to the hay stack area and add it to the pile. A couple of guys with pitchforks helping arrange the pile to help shed water. When the field was all done, grandpa and dad would tie old tires to some binder twine and throw the tire over the stack and help hold the hay in place during a wind storm. The next year they purchased a JD small square baler and a JD side delivery rake. I still have that rake and use it several time during the summer. Use it to turn winrowed hay over that has been rained on. Drive too close and too fast with the 1950 JD B and the hay will turn completely over, not just half way.

Rauville · Jul 13, 2009

How big of stack do you want to build?
Here's a "Beaver-slide" model.

Kris Golden · Jul 13, 2009

you sure ain't gonna save any time puttin up hay that way! RFD TV has a program showing that kind of 'puttin up hay' they show every once in a while. it was very interesting-allbeit waaayyy too labor intensive

old · Jul 13, 2009

The stacker frame I'm talking about you use a loader to fill so it would not take all that long to fill so it is no hand on the hay type set up

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