amish making hay photo

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Ray

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• Jul 13, 2013

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Going to a farm sale today near bellefontaine ohio and snapped a picture of two amish guys making hay.

 

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Fergienewbee

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• Jul 13, 2013

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Do they put this up green or do they have implements to windrow it? I remember seeing a lot of that old equipment when I was a kid, 'course then it wasn't old. LOL!

Larry

 

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gtractorfan

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• Jul 13, 2013

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After that they could eat a lumberjack's supper and not worry about gaining a pound!

 

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ohiojim

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• Jul 13, 2013

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have helped put up hay like that,..only the guy did have a tractor

 

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Leroy

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• Jul 13, 2013

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The loader picks up the row the same as your baler, drive over the row the sameas with the round balers.It is cured enough to bale when you put it up like that. I did not know about that sale or I might have gone but I was dealing with the Amish the other way today delievering a Case F170 rake on steel that I just rebuilt and picked up a New Idea 3 bar to rebuild and plan on converting it to a 4 bar real.

 

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Larry NEIL

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• Jul 13, 2013

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Those hayloaders were known in my part as man killers. Get a fella driven that has a penchant for speed and after a few hours, you won't be calling him "friend".

 

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Eric in IL

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• Jul 13, 2013

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I wonder if the horses have learned to hold a tight pucker due to the risk of being served left-overs come mid December ?

 

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Harold Hubbard

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• Jul 13, 2013

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We had a loader like that for about three years. Dad called it a mankiller too, I four of five yrars old, and wasn't allowed to hear what the hired help called it.

I am not sure, but I think it was traded in on the first baler Dad bought. International 45, and I KNOW what everyone involved called that thing. I suffered with it up until about 1986, when I rebelled and bought a New Holland 269, more of less behind Dad's back.

 

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Dachshund

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• Jul 13, 2013

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Around here, they cut it with (usually) McCormick No 7 or No 9, horse drawn mowers, then use a side delivery rake to windrow it. The lucky ones have a hayloader, the others pitch fork it onto the wagons. It's all taken to the barn, and baled there with a square baler run by either a belted diesel motor, or a 10-12 HP Honda gas motor mounted to the machine.

Id love to have one of them loaders, too!

 

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Nebraska Cowman

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• Jul 13, 2013

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Leroy, do you have pics of that Case rake? There are a pair of Case rakes on my place I'm thinking about building one good one out of the two. But then what to do with it? It would take up a lot of room in my store.

 

casecollectorsc

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• Jul 13, 2013

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Didn't have a rolla bar rake when I was a kid. Dad or Grandpa used a dump rake to put the hay in windrows. Dad and Uncle forked the hay in the rack using slings in layers. Grandpa pulled the rack and loader with a 41 B JD. To the barn when loaded and pull the slings full of hay into the haymow. Lots of work.

 

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El Toro

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• Jul 13, 2013

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They also use balers. Here's a picture of them at work. Hal
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Dan T in MO

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• Jul 13, 2013

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Sounds similar to my upbringing. Dad would work the dumprake while I drove the Farmall B around in circles. Then we'd go hitch up the wagon and fork hay into it. Every so often, Dad would tell me to get up there and tromp it down.

 

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fixerupper

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• Jul 13, 2013

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The old timers I've talked to all say the best place for a hay loader is in the burn pile. I'm much too young to have worked with one. I'm in the 'idiot cube' generation. Jim

 

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just another old geezer

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• Jul 14, 2013

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I have lots of Old Order Amish. They do not want their pictures taken. I respect their wishes.

 

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Bret4207

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• Jul 14, 2013

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I didn't think forking dry hay off a hay loader was bad at all. IN fact I found it a lot easier than loading bales on a flat rack. Now, loading green hay for silage would be another thing altogether. That might be where the "mankiller" thing came in. Loading dry hay is pretty easy.

 

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spanky

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• Jul 14, 2013

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That pic could be from 2013 or 1913. If it was in B&W...

 

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pete 23

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• Jul 14, 2013

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I drove the team for dad a few times. Our loader was ropes and slats, not the style shown here. The guys who raised peas used to load with those and then haul to the pea vinery. Talk about a mess to get those green pea vines off a rack. I just watched as a kid. Yeas later I watched them using a special combine harvest them. Fist they windrowed them but later I guess they cut them straight. It moved really slow though.

 

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Leroy

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• Jul 14, 2013

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Howard, just sent you an email.