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["Lynn Wigglesworth" <lynnw1366 AT hotmail.com>]

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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