hobbyfarm
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<font color="brown">These</font> are neat looking, highly specialized trucks; and more than likely quite expensive. /forums/images/graemlins/cool.gif
Cool Bale Carrier
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Birdman
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and more than likely quite expensive.
If I had enough money to buy a couple of those, I don't think I would be baleing anymore hay and my new address would be "some beach some where"
Very interesting trucks anyway. /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif
If I had enough money to buy a couple of those, I don't think I would be baleing anymore hay and my new address would be "some beach some where"
Very interesting trucks anyway. /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif
They are cool looking trucks!
When I was a young'en, I worked for a custom hay operation. The owner bought a locally built "hay monster", which was like a flatbed truck with a hydraulicly operated snout and conveyor chain that ran the length of the truck.
One guy drove, while one or two stacked the small rectangular bales. If we stacked in the field, on a smooth field, we could move 2,000 bales/day. And we split $.09 a bale, so with 3 guys, we'd make $60 a day, which was a LOT to a poor city boy. Never was in as good of shape before or since. Doing that day after day, and you were whipped.
ron
When I was a young'en, I worked for a custom hay operation. The owner bought a locally built "hay monster", which was like a flatbed truck with a hydraulicly operated snout and conveyor chain that ran the length of the truck.
One guy drove, while one or two stacked the small rectangular bales. If we stacked in the field, on a smooth field, we could move 2,000 bales/day. And we split $.09 a bale, so with 3 guys, we'd make $60 a day, which was a LOT to a poor city boy. Never was in as good of shape before or since. Doing that day after day, and you were whipped.
ron
</font><font color="blue" class="small">( Very interesting trucks anyway. )</font>
Those trucks are from the <font color="teal">Crane Carrier Company </font>! They were highly specialized trucks in their day, but these days crane chassis' seem to be made by the crane companies themselves. /forums/images/graemlins/wink.gif So, understandably their are branching out into other markets.
Those trucks are from the <font color="teal">Crane Carrier Company </font>! They were highly specialized trucks in their day, but these days crane chassis' seem to be made by the crane companies themselves. /forums/images/graemlins/wink.gif So, understandably their are branching out into other markets.
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Throwin' hay was about the only job a boy could get in the 60's, it was hard, hot, dirty work!!! We always ate real good though, those farm wives really put on a feast. And yes, it made you ready for football season without lifting weights. /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif
</font><font color="blue" class="small">( Throwin' hay was about the only job a boy could get in the 60's, it was hard, hot, dirty work!!! We always ate real good though, those farm wives really put on a feast. And yes, it made you ready for football season without lifting weights. )</font>
AHHHHHHHHH, the good ole days... /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif
AHHHHHHHHH, the good ole days... /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif
Birdhunter1
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</font><font color="blue" class="small">( Throwin' hay was about the only job a boy could get in the 60's, it was hard, hot, dirty work!!! We always ate real good though, those farm wives really put on a feast. And yes, it made you ready for football season without lifting weights. /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif )</font>
It was the same in the mid 90's too. The problem when you were an athlete was that employers knew once football season came around you were literally tied up everyday of the week and Saturdays were either a practice day or recovery day, sometimes not always recovering from the game.
So all summer long there was a team of us that if one got a call from a farmer to pick up hay we called each other and went to work. Most of the summer we went to early am workouts then went to pick up hay the rest of the day. Our football coach didn't complain any that we were doing that over sitting beside a pool or in front of a tv in an air conditioned room.
It was the same in the mid 90's too. The problem when you were an athlete was that employers knew once football season came around you were literally tied up everyday of the week and Saturdays were either a practice day or recovery day, sometimes not always recovering from the game.
So all summer long there was a team of us that if one got a call from a farmer to pick up hay we called each other and went to work. Most of the summer we went to early am workouts then went to pick up hay the rest of the day. Our football coach didn't complain any that we were doing that over sitting beside a pool or in front of a tv in an air conditioned room.
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Crane carriers mostly now make garbage truck chassis we had one of them with a 40 yard packer and one with a roll off. Most of the time they were too low set for winter useage in the mud. we sold ours to a transfer station where the packer trype with the lloader was sold to a hay company. They removed the top of the bed and rear gate and left the ejector intact. scoop up a few round bales haul to the farm and back up to the barn and push out.
