Outside loose hay stacking

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  • October 20, 2011 at 1:13 pm #43141
    Anonymous
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    I have here Lynn Millers book, Haying with horses. He shows several pics and diagrams of useing an inverted V, that is set some inside and beside the stack on either side, but is allowed to swing forwards over the stack and back over the wagon as needed.
    My thoughts on useing this are these. If the poles were tall enough to reach back over the stack a fair ways, wouldnt they have to be pretty tall, & IF they were pretty tall so as to reach back over the stack, Wouldnt they be pretty heavy to bring back over the wagon?
    Id like to try loose haying. My worst fears are in getting the hay back out of the stack. Thought about useing an electric chain saw to cut chunks out of the sides. I have just made a hay rack out of an old thresher running gear. The bed is 10 X 20. It has 7ft high racks in front and can either have a 7 or a 30in in back to accomadate the hay loader. Or with the high back for corn shocks

    October 20, 2011 at 6:16 pm #69739
    dlskidmore
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    I saw a video of someone doing this with oxen. They didn’t seem to have too much trouble with the pull, but the contraption was unstable, and the operator not terribly confident about it. I don’t know if his was missing a part, or if he was just not familiar enough with its proper use.

    October 20, 2011 at 7:06 pm #69740
    Anonymous
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    No, it was that he had tied the bottom pulley for the rope going to the oxen to a RR tie, and the pole on his right was badly bowed. First the RR tie raised up with the pull from the oxen, the the R pole bowed REAL bad. As far as he was from the stack to his oxen. He musta trusted them pretty good. Things could have gotten bad real quick.

    IF youl notice, the stack he made wasnt really a big one, Course, he runs a vineyard, so he likely dosent have much ground in hay.

    October 20, 2011 at 8:27 pm #69738
    dominiquer60
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    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TVpP2cedsCU

    Ben has his hands full with these Dexters, but they get the job done for him. Oxen can get to the point where they are happy to stand untied while you wander off, go out of sight, move a vehicle in the yard, etc. They are what you make of them.

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