'40s JD hay loader

riverbend · Jul 18, 2014

I'm putting new wooden bars in an old JD hay loader. It is the kind with 6 wooden bars and a solid galvanized deck. I have a few questions:
Does the mechanism only drive from one side ?
Does the 'switch' of the left wheel engage the crankshaft, etc. ?
Was there a link between the loader and the wagon ? I have a short triangular assembly attached to the front wheels that has a latch that looks like it would grab a 1/2" ring, Unless the ring was right at the back of the wagon, the hitch would never reach.

Anything I should know about using this piece of equipment ?

Thanks

Greg

Roger in Iowa · Jul 19, 2014

It is a H*** of a lot of work. Requires driving over the windrow and stacking the hay loosely on the wagon. Then what do you do with the loose hay. Takes at least two people to operate.

riverbend · Jul 19, 2014

I'm picking it up to spread as mulch for tomatoes. We have about 1 1/2 acres of tomatoes. To cover that ground makes a lot of breaking up bales. With loose hay we can pitch it off and spread it as we go.

Greg

Anonymous-0 · Jul 23, 2014

My grand father had a complete loose hay system. The loader pilled hay into big hay wagons taken to a hay barn with rail system in the center of the roof powered a single horse. A large needle spear dropped into the loose hay from a trolley on that track, held and hoisted the hay to the roof and the trolley positioned the hay in the barn and dropped it. A real fasinating thing for a five year old kid.

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