Hay Video 1950

[Briar Hill Brittanys]

Pretty neat old video, never seen anything like that derrick.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DXqWi578bGM

 

[fastfarmall]

Same trip and sling method to put hay in the hay mow, of the barn!

 

[SVcummins]

Lots of old derricks used to be around here like that but Mose
have finally rotted away .

 

[wheat straw]

Grew up on a vac. Was the only tractor on a small
dairy. Poor little vac got a bunch of running time .
Taught 5 boys to drive. The 46 model was wore slam
out by the seventies. Spunky little tractors.
Andy

 

[Bruce from Can.]

That was a great video. A time when raising cattle
made some real money , and a rancher could afford to
hire men to do the work.

 

[rick n ohio]

Very interesting thanks for posting

 

[Bonnan]

Watching this video several factors come to mine; no OSHA rules there, no over weight workers, and work like the Amish do today.

 

[SVcummins]

You mean a rancher could hire men to do the work . Things changed because you cant hire help or keep it

 

[Bob N.Y.]

That is a whole lot different than the way haying was done in the northeast!

 

[grayrider]

That was fascinating

 

[jddrawbar]

X2....never seen anything like that & I was in hay fields in the 50's.

 

[INCase]

interesting way to do hay.

i wonder how many head could winter on that pile.

 

[jal-SD]

I noticed that several of those mowing tractors are VC's and not VAC's. The VC's are easily identified. Exhaust stack is on the opposite side of the hood from the air intake. VC's were built before VAC's and look a lot like a VAC, but share very few parts with a VAC. The engines used in VC's were built by continental. I think the MH Pony used the same engine. VAC's used a Case designed engine. Both were built at Rock Island, not Racine.

 

[Robert, NC]

I thought it was hard work in the 60s when I was young and strong. Never say anything like this.