horse fork rope

noun, a thick rope attached to a horse fork, an implement used in the process of transporting hay to a mow through a system of pulleys

“My mother used to drive the tractor on the horse fork rope, like it went through pulleys to the back of the mow and then up to the front and then down to the wagon.”

“Was there a couple of different horse fork ropes where they would just stack it or would they put it in barns, or?”

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

“You mentioned loose hay. Did you ever use the horse fork rope or did you have to pitch it into the mow by hand?”
“No, we used a horse fork rope.”

“I drove the horse fork rope all the time, you know, and then Dad’d – We had a pretty good barn over here, and we’d either use the big fork that you jumped on and put down, and then you clicked it so as to pull it up. Sometimes he used slings. He’d lay ropes and he’d put it on the horse fork rope, and she’d go up and over to the mow.”