dcarp
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Awhile ago someone mentioned a manual hay baler. We have one in our museum. Here’s a few pic’s if it. It’s kind of crowded with objects around it so hard to see but I think you’ll get the idea.
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Ken Macfarlane
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Best I can figure these would have been for shipping hay somewhere? They never were used in our area, loose hay transitioned to small square balers 1940 to about 1970 for the last folks.
I always get a kick out of the old westerns representing the mid 1800s, go in the barn and there are 5 small square bales stacked in the corner. Ha!
I guess the possibility existed in the very late 1800s from a deal like that.
Makes just stacking small squares by hand not seem so bad, if you had to squeeze them out by hand to start with!
Paul
I guess the possibility existed in the very late 1800s from a deal like that.
Makes just stacking small squares by hand not seem so bad, if you had to squeeze them out by hand to start with!
Paul
Roger in Iowa
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The "big" cities had to have hay to feed the horses pulling trollies, milk wagons, carriges, wagons, etc. So I think there was a business of making bales from stacks of hay and shipping by rail to the cities.
DoubleO7
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The first baling was done only to more efficiently move, ship, warehouse and then sell hay in the big cities.
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dcarp
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- Schulenburg Texas
We also have a old back & white picture, date of I can’t recall now which shows a manual baler being used. It looked to be a big social event with 3 or 4 families gathered for the baling & the meal.
Rapid City, SD was originally called Hay Camp because the flats just East of what's now Rapid City was a major hay growing area for the livestock (oxen, mules, horses, etc) the Homestake Mine @ Lead needed to work the mine. Rapid Creek was used to irrigate the area. In the 1890's an irrigation district was formed. The district constructed Deerfield Dam to provide year around water flow in Rapid Creek to keep the hay growing. As the need for animal power reduced the need for hay became less, other crops were and are still grown in this area. Deerfield Dam is considered to be a major recreational attraction in the Black Hills. It's original use is more or less forgotten. That use (irrigation) is still there, however. In a dry year, there is a lot of complaining when the lake is dawn down in late summer and all the boat ramps are high and dry.
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