[or-roots] Hey loader

[Leslie Chapman]

Forgot to change yur subject line Gene, I seem to remember seeing a picture
of one of those once in Oregon Farmer or some such, but $18.75? that must
have been pre world war II prices? It cost us a couple hundred bucks for the
three point auger (the one that cost me a finger tip) when we bought it in
the late fifties.

I can sure remember a time or two I would have gladly bought one for that
price to save my back, the only time I ever woke myself up doing something
in my sleep was bucking bales in my sleep when I was in college.

OKAY here is the place to go, if you can't find it here, lotsa luck, but I
bet if you post a query here you will find someone with one;

http://www.ytmag.com/implment/messages/archive138.htm

on that note I am going to go get started on the honeydos, hope this helps.

Les C

http://pasto.cas.psu.edu/EXHIBITS/Exhibit2000.htm

has a couple pics of loose hay loaders, but not quite what you are looking
for.

there is something called a pop-up hay loader for sale at;

http://www.pagelrealtyauction.com/auc-050611/auc-050611.htm

but I couldn't find anything in the filcks that looked like a hay loader, so
don't know if they have what you are looking for or not.

go to;
http://www.wctatel.net/web/crye/baler.htm

to see the first moving hay baler and read the story there of.

this one sounds promising;
http://route66clicks.com/ghost1.html

 I had started driving at age 8. I would go to the hay fields with my Dad
and drive the truck with the hay loader and pick up the bales of hay and my
Dad would retrieve them and stack them. I don't know how much cred you will
give someone telling a ghost story though.


HI:

I wonder if any one out there recalls the Oregon Hay Loader circa about
1946-47 which sold
for about $18.75.  A friend and I went out with Percy Long with this
invention and we used to
find a flatbed with a compound low, and you could place a small boy or women
on the flat
bed, the loader fit in the bed rail.  On the ground one would hook into a
hay bale and the
movement of the truck would swing it aboard to be unloaded.

Gene Barnes

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