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  • From: "Lynn Wigglesworth" <lynnw1366 AT hotmail.com>
  • To: <homestead AT lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [Homestead] Hayloaders was Re: Buying a Scythe
  • Date: Mon, 30 Mar 2009 13:41:22 -0400

This is a lot like mine: http://www.tractorshed.com/contents/adpic99452.htm
It's the same idea as yours...it is drawn behind a wagon, and the 'fingers' (hooks on yours) move the hay up the machine and over the top onto the wagon.

Lynn Wigglesworth
Tioga Co. PA
----- Original Message ----- From: "sjc" <indexer AT fairpoint.net>
To: <homestead AT lists.ibiblio.org>
Sent: Monday, March 30, 2009 12:48 PM
Subject: Re: [Homestead] Hayloaders was Re: Buying a Scythe


Here: http://www.two-cylinder.com/images/Jan08/48a.jpg is a photo of a
loader/press, a more complicated rig than we're working on. The "press"
is an early 'baler' sort of critter. What they're working on in the
workshop is a couple of loaders, only...no press. If you look at the
loader portion of this photo (left side only of the machine shown)
you'll see the belts, or webbings, with their hooks. In the case of
this rig, they would dump the hay into the trough shown at the top,
where it moved to the press. On just the loader, without the press, the
hay is just dumped off the back, where a wagon was hitched.

John asked if I'd repair these things, and I said sure, then he brought
them out: a full-size pickup load of the things, with hooks all over
the place! Fortunately, he didn't need it done until I'd burned most of
the wood for the winter, so there was a place to offload them. And
fortunately, I have an industrial machine with a huge bed and open
throat. Still, it's kind of like trying to sew up a porcupine! A
couple of them had to be completely replaced (dry rot), and I have the
new belts sewn up and the grommets set in them; I'll be interested to
watch him set the hooks.

Story about a naughty little girl who lived at my house a long time
ago: she threw a brick at a sow and hit her in the nose. Sow chased
her the only place she could go---up a hayloader. She had to stay up
there, sow snorting and fussing at the bottom, all day......missed
breakfast, missed dinner....afraid to answer people calling her because
she'd have to explain why the sow had a bloody nose.... Finally, almost
dark, my uncle heard the sow still snorting around and found me up
there, and did I get my butt busted! To this day I've no clue why I'd
chuck a brick at a sow, I wasn't really a mean kid, just one of the
stupid things a kid will do, I guess.

SJ
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