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Marc spotted this photo. The jeep appears to have a rare Midway Sweep Rake attached to it (most of the rake is buried under the hay. I’ve attached a brochure for comparison.
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A brochure from a 1947 equipment book:
Dave (if you don’t already know this) The way this works is. You buck the mowed hay into windrows with a buck rake. Then push down the windrow until you have a load. Then head for the hay stacker(ours was made out of wood) and the stacker moves the hay overhead into the stack. I see down in Utah and Wyoming, they are still doing this. Was great to see the old school ways. Last time I did this was at my dad’s cousin (Snook Moore) place in 1982.
This is the first steel hay stacker I’ve seen. Much more complicated than our’s or Snook’s wood ones
Thanks for the tutorial! I’ve never heard the term windrow.
This way would require two jeeps or a motorized winch to run the stacker. We pushed ours with a team of horses. Would leave buck between the stacker teeth and unhook team an rehook to stacker. Doesn’t appear to me that the jeep has a quick release. 🙂
LOL Dave I’ve probably spell it wrong! 🙂
This buck has way to small of wheels. Wouldn’t want to push this around in a rough field ! Guess I better research the word windrow. Probably a farmer term! lol
A long row of hay laid out in the wind to dry. 🙂
(lousy eyesight)! That hay stacker has hydraulics and a motor! Hmmm wonder if its a L-head? 🙂
Common to have a purpose built rake from old truck chasis, driven backwards, so as to keep load on rear axle, to deliver it to the Beaver Slide stacker where it stacked the hay. Once stack as high as could be stacked the cage and beaver slide would then be dragged to the next location to start again.
This doesn’t look like a Factory Photo, The Jeep looks well used especially sans hood. Like the MAHL Jeep Loader I sold back to the factory that made it, there probably were never many of these ever made. Love those odd ball items from the Special Equipment Catalogue. Thanks, Marc and Dave