What's this implement?

Bruce (VA)

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Saw this at a farm auction. Any idea what it is?
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All I recall was 3 or 4 of us loading a wagon & then putting them on a PTO powered conveyor to get them up in the barn loft. With 2 or 3 more boys in the loft. And it was always done at about 95* and 90% humidity. Seemed like every boy in the family & neighborhood was drafted for bucking bales.
 
Yea and with all that loose hay up there there was always some of these around. My son always though they were fun to catch. Me, I hate snakes.

Kirk
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Biggest black snakes I ever saw lived in tobacco barns. And you usually found them when you were straddling the highest tier poles w/ a full tobacco stick.

My uncle would say " That snake won't hurt you boy, but he will make you hurt yourself"
 
It is hay fork for when hay was not in bales, there were different types tho. Seen them used when I was a kid.
 
(quoted from post at 13:08:47 01/28/17) Yea and with all that loose hay up there there was always some of these around. My son always though they were fun to catch. Me, I hate snakes.

Kirk
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Boy, does THAT bring back memories! Working on a hay wagon behind a NH 273 baler, grabbed a bale, held it up against my chest and turned to stack it - eye to eye with a really angry black snake. I think I got about a 60 ft. freestyle throw on that bale. :shock:
 
Bruce, A couple of weeks ago, I finished reading Bob Artley's "Once Upon a Farm" to Thomas. Thomas was in the hay mow Thursday and he looked up and saw the big ropes hanging from the ceiling. He said, "Papa, are those the ropes you used when you were little with the huuuuuge hay hook?" Well, not exactly, kiddo, but Grandma Jan did when she was little. It was my Mom's job to drive the Allis WD to raise the hay into the mow. Grandpa would stand on the platform high up in the rafters and hit the trip release and send the hook back down to the hay rack.

Colin
 

Luckily I'm mildly alergic to something in the hay. Mostly the dust. I could work on the outside loading bails onto the conveyor but get me inot the loft in the stagnant, dust filled air and I couldn't breath in about 2 minutes.
 
It's a hay fork, or elevator. When I was a kid, long, long ago we had a neighbor that wouldn't give up his horses. His son finally talked him into buying a B John Deere. He would mow, rake, and bring the hay to the barn with a team. He would then hand start the B, pull the hay rope up, then back the tractor up and shut it off. I've forked a lot of loose hay.

About all they're used for now is yard art. Here's mine.

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(quoted from post at 22:07:13 01/28/17) Wow, I really screwed that up.

u sure did. u need to stop leaving that stuff in the yard. nothing good will come of it ;)
 
Yep hay fork. I saw one sell for $300 at an auction this summer. I bought one for $40 but it was missing the trip. The Amish still use them around here.
 
When we moved onto the farm after Grandpa died, Dad bought 3 Herford heifers and we put up the hay for them loose. We had a different style of hay hook. It was basically two forks that you stomp down into the load and it had two trips that you could trip it when you got it up into the haymow. We used the tractor to pull it up. Unfortunately the barn was so old and rickety that Dad was afraid it would pull the barn down so we had to put the hay up by hand. It was a lot of work.
Mow, bunch the hay up with an old dump rake pitch it onto the hay wagon by hand, pitch it into the mow, then pitch it again towards the back to keep the front clear.
Ugghh!
I didn't know about tofu in those days but if I had I would have suggested we get rid of the Herfords and eat vegetarian.
 
Tnx for all the info!

Never seen one around here (VA) as a kid. Now they have machines that pick up the bales & stack them on a wagon.
 
Now they have machines that throw them into a wagon. I would be very under-employed if I were a teen today.

Colin
 

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