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Jimmy: I assume you are still able to make that slide. My neighbor has an 80' - 10" auger he's using to fill a 52' silo with grain. That auger looks quite flimsy when he's getting it in place. That thing looks like it would quite a good slide if you had good balance. I don't think you'd want to weigh over 50# though. You mentioned using tractor on the pitching rope. I can remember using the horse but last few years we used the Farmall Cub. We had a wooden platform on Cub with 3-4 sacks on feed the give the Cub enough traction. A neighbor had one of the tracks whereby wagon sat outside at end of barn. Barn was over 100' with full length track. They used the family Buick with 4 sacks of feed in the trunk. His wife drove it and did the pull backing. They had a flag they moved depending how far they wanted her to back. One day she backed over the flag, it caught on back bumper, thus she never saw it, and just kept backing. Almost took the carriage and fork of hay through far end of the barn. Quite an argument erupted between husband and wife over being able to back the Buick straight out the driveway, without running over the flag. I wasn't there but the story circulated around the community. I remember another story about a farmer who's barn was right beside county road. He had always drove across the road pulling the rope. Gravel road, not a lot of traffic, thus he'd let the rope drop to ground once fork was on the carriage. Everyone knew him, they would slow down and drive over the rope. One day something on a vehicle caught the rope. That one caused quite a comotion in the hay loft.
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