hay loader

noun, a machine attached to a wagon used for loading hay

“Then when you went along with the hay loader, you always had to go back and do what they called ‘the rake’ and cleaned up the scrap.”

“It was a great thing, these hay loaders, because they picked it up, put it up on the wagon for you.”

“I remember when my father got the first hay loader. It was a big deal, 400-500 dollars.”

“I can remember different people coming down there with a team and wagon and a hay loader behind it.”

“That’s loading hay, where the old hay loaders used to be, the machine behind the wagon and the horses.”

“I remember the old horse fork rope though, and the hay loader.”

“Dad lit up a cigarette before he come in, and then he got in and he looked out and it was all in flames. He threw the match down, burnt the hay loader all up and about three or four windrows on either side.”

“In the summer we had to, of course, help hay. And the old-fashioned raking with the old rake and the hay loader and stuff like that.”

“Did you ever walk behind the hay loader when it was going?”

“Yeah, we had hay loaders. I drove the horses for the hay loader a good many times. I loaded in front of the hay loader a good many times too.”

“I remember one day in the haying time, our old hay loader broke down.”

“I remember the haying in the early years. We used to just pick it up with a hay loader in the field loose without baling it.”

“Oh, it burnt the hay loader. Oh geez.”

“They had a pipe running into the well. And it used to go over the road, you know. It didn’t go under the road. And I can remember different people coming down there with a team and wagon and a hay loader behind it. Lots of room for the truck and everything to go underneath, but you know how the old hay loaders stood up like that. Well, if they didn’t realize what was happening, down come the pipes. They’d hook into it with the top of the hay loader.”