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SVcummins · Oct 1, 2020

Hay stackers

jon f mn · Oct 1, 2020

Farmhand was the most popular, but there are a couple others.

jal-SD · Oct 1, 2020

Exactly what we used when I was growing up. Only difference between that diorama and my real life experience is that the Farmhand was a "bridge style" and the tractor powering it was a 1942 Farmall H. The alfalfa looks like it hasn't been rained on, it's nice and green. Generally it was unusual that it didn't get rained on after it was cut in our part of the world.

72supr · Oct 1, 2020

I still have a F 10 loader.We stacked all of our hay till 1980. Always used the cage for prairie hay but not for alfalfa. Never put a man in the stack but our neighbor always did his that way.

LonM · Oct 1, 2020

One of the large orange ones with cable tilt on a John Deere is a F10 Farmhand. The other large orange one (behind the hay stack frame) looks to be a newer version of the F10 or maybe a F25. They were very popular in the Dakotas from the 50s to the mid-80s. Round hay balers led to their demise.

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db4600 · Oct 1, 2020

Jayhawk was early. Early enough for a ground drive horse powered version. I don’t know if they ever got into a mounted hydraulic version.

1948CaseVAI · Oct 1, 2020

We had a Farmhand mounted on an old Case L. Did not use a fence around the stack because we had a local guy that could stack straight without it - only tool was a pitchfork. His stacks never blew down and they shed rain water like a roof. We never had moldy or rotten hay. Good days! Wish I had kept that Farmhand stacker and Case L for the sentimental value.

steve_in_mo · Oct 1, 2020

When I was a kid, a neighbor had a tractor-mounted Jayhawk stacker on a Allis Chalmers WC.
At least, they called it a Jayhawk.
After he sold the WC, my dad ran it on his John Deere B one year.

bc · Oct 1, 2020

(quoted from post at 13:09:50 10/01/20) When I was a kid, a neighbor had a tractor-mounted Jayhawk stacker on a Allis Chalmers WC.
At least, they called it a Jayhawk.
After he sold the WC, my dad ran it on his John Deere B one year.

Someone in Missouri owning a Jayhawk? I can bet on why you only had it a year before getting rid of it!

Tony in SD · Oct 1, 2020

I know a guy who use to but the lawyers shut him down. I think he violated some sort of patient or copyright law by making them too close to the original. I’ve seen pictures of his work that you can’t tell if it’s real or a toy. In person, his detail Of the toys was second to none.

SVcummins · Oct 1, 2020

This man made one that looked like that as well

SVcummins · Oct 1, 2020

May have been this same man? Maybe Deere got him can’t imsgina anybody at your agriculture company knowing or even caring about a toy farmhand loader

BarryfromIA · Oct 1, 2020

Dad owned a cable lift Jayhawk for a number of years and sold and bought a hydraulic lift one and both were ran by Case VAC. I still have it here but not in operating condition.

SVcummins · Oct 2, 2020

That would be neat to fix up

SVcummins · Oct 2, 2020

That would make a man out of you if you was the man with
the pitchfork

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