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  • From: VAN DELL JORDAN <vdjor AT yahoo.com>
  • To: homestead AT lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: Re: [Homestead] Aging lists and listmates?!
  • Date: Thu, 21 Dec 2006 09:24:47 -0800 (PST)

I don't recall any block & tackle but we did have
"elevators" with a chain systom for pulling the bales
up. One guy dropped the bale at the bottem and
another pulled in into the loft when it got to the
top.
I don't remember any barns built with a hayloft after
1960.
Van Dell


> > A barn desigened for hay storage will have a block
> and tackle to
> > raise the
> > bales to where they can be swung into the loft
> easily.
>







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