[or-roots] Hey loader

[E V Barnes]

  Percy Long, had picked up a load of pipe, a lot of rope, and
  found those one handed ice hooks at auction.  When we went
  out with him, that was his price $1875 a unit.  His dad had a
  shingle mill on the edge of Porland, and Percy inherited it.
  The last time I spoke with him was about 1975 while visiting
  an aunt in Portland.   He was then married to his third wife,
  and going out motorcyling.   Back in the late '30s my Dad
  and I traveled from Oakland to Porland with Percy in his
  then '32 Ford 2 dr.  We ran our of gas somewhere up in the
  mountains in the middle of the night.  I was posted a look
  out while one of them siphoned a gallon or two from a
  logging truck.   He and my father both worked for the
  Francis Motor Car Co., Portland, until my father was down
  with monoxide poisoning.

  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: "Leslie Chapman" <reedsportchapmans at verizon.net>
  To: <or-roots at sosinet.sos.state.or.us>
  Sent: Friday, June 03, 2005 10:27 AM
  Subject: [or-roots] Hey loader


  >
  > 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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