Lynn Wigglesworth wrote:
This is a lot like mine: http://www.tractorshed.com/contents/adpic99452.htmWhen I went looking for photos I was again amazed at how inventive folks
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.
have been over the years. The ones with the wood lines were the sort I
used to see in VA when we first moved there, and I see today there were
lots of other sorts, including a bunch that seemed to be sort of
one-of-a-kind....fascinating, all the different ideas folks have had.
And after all that, for just a few acres, we ended up here mowing with a
scythe, bringing in loose what would fit in the barnloft, and making
haystacks in the field of the rest---all more pleasant work and better
suited to our rocky, wet-in-places, hillsides. A couple of pitchforks,
a manure fork, one mule (or some years, one goat) & harness, one wagon,
one scythe, a couple of saplings.....
Not the way we made our haystacks, but last year Gene Logsdon wrote a
piece about simple haystacks, looks easier to learn/do than the way we
did ours (learned our way from a Polish exchangee), also each stack a
little bigger; I've thought I'd give this method a try if ever I do hay
again:
http://organictobe.org/index.php/2008/08/26/cheapskate-haystacks-for-contrary-garden-farmers/
If one's only working with a small acreage, it beats having to acquire,
maintain, and store equipment, at least for me.
SJ
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