Hay Trolly

[gwpoky]

Trying to get my trolly set up in my barn, anyone know how the ropes should be set up? I have looked though Lynn Miller book, but not 100% sure about getting the trolly pulled back out of the barn after dumping the load in the barn. I am very excited about getting this system working, is going to save us allot of time and some labor of pitching. Any help, suggestions, or tips would be greatly appreciated.

Thank you

[Jay]

George, Usually there is a pulley attached to the wall or the track support near or just beyond the trip where the fork goes down to the wagon. On a system where the track runs out the gable end of the barn and down to the wagon outside the barn, our barn has a 1/4″ metal strap 3″ wide about a foot off the end and a foot below the track with a ring in the end for the return pulley. So the main rope goes up the back of the barn, to the track and out to the trip, and down to the fork to pull the load up and into the barn where it gets dumped. Another rope goes from the carriage on the track through the pulley on the end near t he trip and down. This doesn’t need to be very heavy as it is only a return rope for the empty carriage and fork. In our big barn, there is no return rope other than the trip rope to the fork with which I pull the carriage back to the trip over the wagon. We have a high floor on which we dump the hay from the fork, then push it off into the mows, stacking it as we go. “Stack the edges and the middle will take care of it’s self” as an old timer once said. Hope this helps. Jay

[Rivendell Farm]

Our barn has a hay car that runs on a track at the peak of the barn. The hay was lifted off the wagon in the center of the barn, then the person in the mow pulled a rope, via a pulley at the track end, that moved the car and suspended hay into position. After dropping the hay, the one inch lifting rope was used to pull the car back to the center. Upon reaching the center it automatically released to drop to the wagon for another load. This is all in the past tense, because it has been ages since we put up hay this way. It does make nicer hay than a baler does. Hope this is some help. Bob

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