NEW Hay carriers for barns

Farmallb

Well-known Member
Friend said he had seen where someb ody was makeing them, but couldnt remember whether he saw it on here or somewhere else.
I figure, if somebody IS makeing them, There likely Amish or Mennonite
 
The trolleys that pick up loose hay or 8-10 bales and run on a rail to the far side of the hay barn with a big rope.

Paul
 
The ridgid 4 forks carried around 3 likely, and maybe only 2 bales. The loose 4 forks, carried 6 to 8 bales.
 
Our old barn (1913) is missing the hay carrier gear, track is still there. I'd love to find a complete set one day, just to hang and look at, don't need to use it, just love to have one.
 
I have a brand new lowden carriage and 4 tine floppy fork bought @ local hardware store auction ten or twelve years ago The tag is still on the carriage with price $19.22 and written with keel on forks $18.65 I'm guessing 1950s vintage ?
 
I hve one that runs on a 4X4 wooden track, also
one that runs on a steel track. one or both along
with a four tine swinging fork. can be bought.
email is open . located north central Ill. ggp
 
We still use hay forks, have three barns that use them. take 12 bales at a time. Have a good crew of 4 men you can put away the hay! and not have to listen to a noisy elevator or have to drag it across the whole length of the mow.
 
What do do want? Back long ago we had a B&S motor conveyor that would load hay up high in a old barn, not like the ones of today.
 
I have a carrier from a barn we torn down. But don't know if will fit your track.

Might sell it.

Gary
 
There were some NOS ones at Balster's auction a few years ago. I wanted to buy one but they sold them by the pallet.

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This was probably the worst advertised auction in history. The sale bills did not list a 1/4 to what was there.

Jim
 
Ours carried 10... 5 per layer, 2 layers deep. They didn't always make it in the barn, though.
Grandpa replaced them with a conveyor when I was about 10 years old. Track is still in the mow (conveyor hangs from it), winch is still in the east end of the mow, and the trolley or whatever you want to call it is around here somewhere.
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Lets try that again.

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We had all three of those here. I've never seen the one in the 2nd picture used. Grandpa used the one in the last picture a year or two, then went back the the long fork style.
 
The hay carrier is the device that rolls along the track. What's pictured here are a couple designs for hay forks- either for bales or loose hay. ie, what you hang beneath the carrier.
 
Grandad didnt stack his that way. He had 3 bales one way, and 3 another, and maybe another 3 different from the one below it.
 

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