1940's Hay Loader: Rescued and Relied Upon 

Stacked many loads of hay on wagon in front of a New Idea leader like this. Thanks for the memory.

Have the same model. Rebuilt with new wood; only replaced 3 bolts. Four generations of family have now utilized it!

Great job and Thanks for this video. My kids and I found one in the woods and now I can show them what if once did.

Hard farm and ranch work there is nothing better to raise your kids around. Love the old Ford truck

After commenting on one of their videos, Blue Creek Dairy sent me your way to have a look at your hay loader. I'm glad to see you got yours working. They are an amazing piece of equipment. With a little paint, grease and oil, it will keep going for a few more decades. One suggestion when you have the extra money, buying a 3 tine pitch fork makes it much easier to work with hay instead of the 5 tine manure fork. Good luck with the farm and best wishes to you.

I just love that old school ingenuity. You look like you're having a great life, good luck and be safe.

It feels so satisfying to see your hard work bringing that old school ingenious farm equipment back to life, that big stack of hay brings back warm memories of my grandpa’s New England farm

100 years later the loader is finally rotting at the edge of the woods but the weld is still holding ;) I had thoughts of grandeur about rebuilding and using one into you brought up snakes lol

Be careful hay doesn't wrap around your drive shaft and starts on fire. I've seen it before.

Possibilities, great stuff. I have a neighbour do my hay. But O to be self sufficient!

Great content and storytelling! Good production value too! Nice work.

We just bought a 130 yr old texas farm that has almost all of that equipment sitting rusting along the barn. I have wondered wether it was worth restoring the equipment. Your videos inspire me to try.

You are a talented young man!

It was an amazing.. I'm truly inspired I'm from India.. Can you please share the principal of the machine

Do you have a problem with snakes in the load of hay?

when American was more agrarian that unit was pulled by horses, Model A and T.. Anything that had the strength to pull it..did..

That's sweet trucks doing tractor.

Welding cast, it doesn't come up very often, we have a Buzz Box Lincoln Stick welder, had to weld up some cast, we heated the cast up in the woodstove, reversed the electrodes (put the welding rod on the ground clamp) bought some veeeerrrry expensive cast iron welding rod, welded, put the cast back in the old wood stove overnight to let cool down sloooowly. It worked! I pay for swathing and baling, then we PU truck it into the barn. Buck it up into the truck, then buck it into the barn, handling it twice isn't the most efficient way to handle the hay. But it's what we've got. Nice job on your loading your truck, every vid that I've seen of people moving loose hay they are always waist deep in the hay. Back when I had access to a baler (my big hay farmer neighbor would let me borrow his baler) , we would turn hay to dry out bottom, with an old ground drive IH rake, it would always turn the hay in clumps rather then neat rows, so after I baled the hay there would still be loose hay between where the windrows were. I'd dump rake the 5 acre field and get 5 more bales out of the harvest.

Cool save of old equipment... Should really get back to that axle race and grind out all the nasty weld.. Brazing is easy!!!

A hay wagon would work so much better.u can get a good used one for a couple of hundred dollar.they are so much easier to load,and are a lot safer to work on.i have never seen someone use a pickup on it,that is so dangerous.

Merci, je viens d'en acheter une semblable. Elle a aussi besoin d'un peu d'amour pour le bois, mais je vais la remettre en bon état.

How much it costs to build one for India

Music is about 2 times too loud.

Awesome

I loved the video and will check out you videos. I am so glad I found your channel, I have been looking for one of these Hay Loaders for years. But there is not a lot of these down here in the South, mainly Louisiana. I would really like to find one with just all the metal parts in good shape, the wood parts I can make, many of the metal parts also as long as I have a pattern or old part to copy to fab. I collect and restore old horse drawn equipment for future use on our 9 acre 104 year old family Homestead. I have two IH sickle mowers to restore and my Great Grand Fathers old IH Hay Rake to restore and a number of barn hay trolleys and different hay forks. Again thanks for the video, loved it. I have a 1948 IH K5 hay truck also.

I remember my grandpa driving a team of horses hitched to his hay wagon which could not be seen due to the overflowing mountain of hay being brought to the hay barn, then the farm hand would help trolley the hay into the loft just like you did in another video

How many storms has that hay loader saw through the years you wonder ?

1954, the year before my start in first grade, the farmer next door to our farm still used one of these for their hay. I thought he had the best looking tractor a Ford jubilee with the shinny emblem in the front of the hood, to a five year old it looked so big.

good good

Wow

What a great video of the restoration! Brings back memories of fixing up our John Deere hay loader. Isn't it simply amazing how well a hay loader works? Great mix of footage, history, and shots on and behind the hay loader. I need a welder so bad! I wore hiking gaiters this year while on the wagon and that helped a lot to keep hay etc out of my socks and shoes. Such a great job all around!

Just gained yourself a new subscriber I really want to remanufacture these antique machines for folks like me who want to use their animals to farm with ,my first project is a IHC mccormick deering no9 scycle bar mower restoration ,I want to build steam engines, miniature locomotives, traction engines , horse equipment like hay lifters tedders cutters the hard stuff to find in working condition I have two of kozo hiroko's books on building 7 1/2 inch gauge logging locomotives the books teach gear cutting and all manner of model engineering practices

its good you restored this because sadly it most of the time becomes a city slicker lawn ornament

When i was a kid the call out was , "Extra Protein!" ( Snake in a Bale.)

Are you guys in Washington then? I'm over in Lynden Area (WA) I

Very nice … way to go guys !

respect sir real good job

If the flatbed trailer is yours make end racks and you could get 4 sling loads on , and unlike a hay day wagon would be easy to back up to barn with the Farmall

Awesome thanks

Great job

Ahh the bees

Looks like the restorative painting got eliminated for the project. LOL

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And use a hay fork.

Just a note. In 1963 we got our hay loader for the first time. I was 16 years old and in great physical farm-boy shape, and the one on the back of the truck. Since most hayfields have irregularities in the landscape, the person on the back of the truck needs to be very agile and be able to maintain upright while loading the hay. Also, when the load nears the top, the person loading is standing on the edge (rear) could slide off the truck into the hay loader pickup part if the driver suddenly increased speed. My father had a hard time maintaining a steady speed. A few times I had to deal with a sudden lurch of the truck forward. Never fell but did get scared of doing so. Thanks for sharing. Oh, one more thing. because the hay loader delivers the hay in one continuous blanket, the entire load is weaved like one big ball. Tearing apart the ball when unloading is much harder than one loaded by hand.

You saved it from the scrapper. God Blessed

I grew up on a farm in western New York. Done my fair share of hayin'. My question is why don't youz guys just bail your hay?

Bought one of these myself, already working condition. Haven't used it yet though.