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Title: Re: Hay trolleys and pulleys
Post by: Pitchy on June 15, 2019, 01:10:41 pm

I`ll be tickled pink if i can move good enough to make ten bales.

Title: Re: Hay trolleys and pulleys
Post by: classixs on June 15, 2019, 01:08:47 pm

Looks great...will take a bit of effort to fill the barn with those though  ;)

Title: Re: Hay trolleys and pulleys
Post by: Pitchy on June 15, 2019, 09:38:26 am

A bale we made this morn.

(https://i.imgur.com/rVwNT44m.jpg)

Title: Re: Hay trolleys and pulleys
Post by: Pitchy on June 15, 2019, 08:22:01 am

Thanks Hero, cool wish i had a old barn with the track in it.
Pics ?

Title: Re: Hay trolleys and pulleys
Post by: Hero on June 15, 2019, 08:16:07 am

Nice trolleys. I have the one that came with our 100-year-old-+ farm, and there's even a dandy pulley hanging about 40 feet up there in the barn with the rope broken off....

Title: Re: Hay trolleys and pulleys
Post by: Pitchy on June 15, 2019, 06:46:01 am

Thanks, we did make a bale the other day by taking apart a hay bale as a doner.

Title: Re: Hay trolleys and pulleys
Post by: Nick on June 13, 2019, 09:48:44 pm

Very cool hay press!! Can't believe how well they work

Title: Re: Hay trolleys and pulleys
Post by: Jim on June 13, 2019, 06:45:20 pm

What a labour saving device these must have been.

Title: Re: Hay trolleys and pulleys
Post by: classixs on June 13, 2019, 01:21:16 pm

Thanks Lenn !

Quite impressed by how firm those bales appear to be, it´s actually a well functioning back to basics tool that one (https://emoji.tapatalk-cdn.com/emoji482.png)

Title: Re: Hay trolleys and pulleys
Post by: Pitchy on June 13, 2019, 01:17:58 pm

Here ya go.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YC3afDTEdDI

Title: Re: Hay trolleys and pulleys
Post by: classixs on June 13, 2019, 01:17:10 pm

Ok...get the system then, and that even without the assistance of Google this time  ;D

Title: Re: Hay trolleys and pulleys
Post by: Pitchy on June 13, 2019, 01:15:56 pm

Probably easier for ya and me to do a search on hand hay balers, there are slits in the front door that ya run the strings through before putting the hay in the box.  :)

Title: Re: Hay trolleys and pulleys
Post by: classixs on June 13, 2019, 01:13:48 pm

Well know, does not get much more manuel than that one...and cool beans once again  ;D

How do you put a string on it, just take it out of the box, and tie it up?

Title: Re: Hay trolleys and pulleys
Post by: Pitchy on June 13, 2019, 01:05:00 pm

Thanks Jan, we built the hay baler today.

(https://i.imgur.com/6UqVNqem.jpg)

(https://i.imgur.com/nvuQ8N4m.jpg)

Title: Re: Hay trolleys and pulleys
Post by: classixs on June 13, 2019, 12:57:37 pm

So cool how well those old tools does the job...


Love your little "demonstrator" barn there  ;D


Thanks for sharing !!!

Title: Re: Hay trolleys and pulleys
Post by: Pitchy on June 13, 2019, 11:41:07 am

Built it from a bicycle .

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vZgrB3jcBLY

Title: Re: Hay trolleys and pulleys
Post by: txlabman on June 13, 2019, 10:29:48 am

Cool beans Lenn!

Thanks for the videos.

What is that cool motorized bike/motorcycle in the background?

Title: Re: Hay trolleys and pulleys
Post by: Pitchy on June 13, 2019, 09:53:48 am

Yep made the rope maker, we make all our ropes with it.  :)

Title: Re: Hay trolleys and pulleys
Post by: Nick on June 13, 2019, 09:03:52 am

Sure is neat how well those work  8)  and that's one heck of a big rope maker in the last video!

Title: Re: Hay trolleys and pulleys
Post by: Pitchy on June 13, 2019, 06:28:18 am

I figured out how to put the vids on so here they are again.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jWjxXAtxL8o

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OkiB2-Guqhs

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cdKuOCCTbV8

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mhNSCdx0OPs

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PHaG6U9urfE

This is a cable trolley ,they were used in the field to stack hay.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zSuuDNcxy0A

Title: Re: Hay trolleys and pulleys
Post by: Pitchy on June 13, 2019, 06:01:47 am

Thanks Bruce and Nick, it works better in the tall grass i was trying it on two inch grass at first and didn`t work out very well.
I`m not going to be able to cut much but want to try it, if we do get some hay down we`re going to build one of those hand feed hay boxes.

Title: Re: Hay trolleys and pulleys
Post by: Nick on June 12, 2019, 09:49:24 pm

Quote from: Pitchy on June 12, 2019, 11:17:52 am

Only going to cut by hand so i can say i did it once.  :)

I've cut many weeds down with a scythe, and upgraded my dry-rotted wooden snath to aluminum. They are definitely awkward to use at first. There are some pretty good "scythe competition" videos on youtube

Title: Re: Hay trolleys and pulleys
Post by: St Paul Steam on June 12, 2019, 08:40:56 pm

trolleys & all look really good, I bought one last year (never did anything with it) & your right, some of them are very ornate.

Title: Re: Hay trolleys and pulleys
Post by: Pitchy on June 12, 2019, 05:09:46 pm

Thanks Larry, those trolleys were real ornate and look great restored.

Title: Re: Hay trolleys and pulleys
Post by: jkbixby on June 12, 2019, 04:01:55 pm

Amazing how good some of that machinery looks when cleaned up and painted - good work Lenn! And that scythe looks good but can take a toll on you if you're not used to using one. I tried my father-in-law's once for about ten minutes and a miracle happened - I didn't die (but felt like it)!

Title: Re: Hay trolleys and pulleys
Post by: Pitchy on June 12, 2019, 11:17:52 am

Only up about 20 inches but got a month to grow yet, this property i sandy so not good growing unless ya work the ground.
Only going to cut by hand so i can say i did it once.  :)

Title: Re: Hay trolleys and pulleys
Post by: classixs on June 12, 2019, 11:13:41 am

Cool beans indeed !!!


Is the grass starting to get some length with you by now?

Title: Re: Hay trolleys and pulleys
Post by: Pitchy on June 12, 2019, 11:02:49 am

Thanks Rog.  :)

Title: Re: Hay trolleys and pulleys
Post by: IndianaRog on June 12, 2019, 09:56:27 am

Lenn, you have always been able to take whatever you find and turn it into something cool and interesting...great to have you with us.

Rog

Title: Re: Hay trolleys and pulleys
Post by: Stoker on June 12, 2019, 09:47:03 am

Even more way cool !!!!!!

Title: Re: Hay trolleys and pulleys
Post by: Pitchy on June 12, 2019, 09:43:39 am

Thanks Daniel, we made some haying tools too.

(https://i.imgur.com/JkNgLvvm.jpg)

(https://i.imgur.com/azrTbAem.jpg)

(https://i.imgur.com/MwrHM80m.jpg)

Plan on cutting hay with one of these.

(https://i.imgur.com/ZucoLIKm.jpg)

(https://i.imgur.com/jzDEXz9m.jpg)

Title: Re: Hay trolleys and pulleys
Post by: Stoker on June 12, 2019, 09:08:27 am

Some truly great additions to the Pitchy museum there, and beautiful additions as well.

I always marvel at the built in elegance of the everyday tools and equipment from years gone by. Makes today's world seem so sterile and ugly by comparison!

Title: Re: Hay trolleys and pulleys
Post by: Pitchy on June 12, 2019, 06:36:44 am

Thanks Jan, yep cool beans.  ;D
Embedding didn`t work i see.

Title: Re: Hay trolleys and pulleys
Post by: classixs on June 12, 2019, 06:35:41 am

Some great stuff there Lenn, thanks for sharing !!!

...or perhaps "Cool Beans" fits better in this case?  ;)

Title: Hay trolleys and pulleys
Post by: Pitchy on June 12, 2019, 06:19:02 am

Collecting a few trolleys and made and restored some pulleys and a wood trolley.

(https://i.imgur.com/Pf2Zdvwm.jpg)

(https://i.imgur.com/XwWvlSmm.jpg)

(https://i.imgur.com/Z1xVELmm.jpg)

(https://i.imgur.com/d90a3yHm.jpg)

(https://i.imgur.com/YQkoc1Rm.jpg)

Some hay spears and grapples.

(https://i.imgur.com/jUIb8xhm.jpg)

(https://i.imgur.com/oN4rCZDm.jpg)

(https://i.imgur.com/teKgRSnm.jpg)

(https://i.imgur.com/RxJgZ1am.jpg?1)

(https://i.imgur.com/ONuDjmOm.jpg?1)

Building i`m putting some trolleys in.

(https://i.imgur.com/Mds2ix1m.jpg)

Home made trolley.

(https://i.imgur.com/D7fO8q7m.jpg)

Miniature trolley barn setup.

(https://i.imgur.com/ymQ3rJ1m.jpg)

Some video`s

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