Vintage Hay Loader
by Kathy Barney
Title
Vintage Hay Loader
Artist
Kathy Barney
Medium
Photograph - Photography-digital Art
Description
This circa 1900 hay loader is on display at a park in Sharonville, Ohio. Lovely rust. Also a favorite place for nesting birds.
My fan James writes: "I REALLY LIKE the photo you have called "Vintage Hay Baler Poster" but it's not a baler by any stretch. It's an excellent example of a hay LOADER, which was used to pick up loose hay from a windrow and drop it onto a flat wagon bed, where men would use pitch forks to place it evenly onto the wagon until the load was about as high as the top of the loader. As a little tyke, I was used to them, because that's what we used to make hay on our 400-acre farm in Indiana. I was barely old enough to drive the tractor the last time we used our hay loader, but I was intrigued by the way the thing was built so that the prongs on those narrow poles kept pulling the hay up to the top and dumping it onto the wagon. Typical 19th C engineering.
I'd like to have a copy to use with a biographical story I'm writing which includes a hay loader, and of course my children and grandchildren don't understand. This would help in that understanding. Thanks! James"
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May 21st, 2014
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