We put up loose hay until Dad bought a Case wire tie baler in 1947. Dad had an "overshot stacker" that my Grandpa had designed and made that worked pretty good. I started driving a team of horses on the stacker when I was 6 years old. Dad would bring the bucker of loose hay to the stacker, back the bucker out and leave the hay on the stacker teeth. I would drive the team and pull the hay up and over to drop it on the other side. My two older brothers forked the hay around to keep the stack level.
In the winter, we went out with a team and sled with a hay wagon on it. We used a hay knife to cut down through the hay as we loaded the hay on the sled wagon. Putting up loose hay was a slow, labor intensive project. Some companies made stack forms that a loader could drop the loose hay into to form a stack; less labor but not a great way to stack hay.
There have been technical advances over the years in putting up hay, but I kind of have the feeling that we're still searching for a better way to put up hay - and it hasn't arrived yet!
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