Posted by Dick2 on May 14, 2013 at 10:49:45 from (75.172.179.111):
In Reply to: Re: Picture for Today posted by Nancy Howell on May 14, 2013 at 06:40:35:
The long belt was used to make more room for the teams and bundle wagons to pull up alongside the feeder where they pitched the bundles in.
Notice that the belt has a twist in it; that was done to keep the belt from slapping together and making a loud noise that would cause the horses on the bundle wagons to runaway.
I've had to help repair a couple bundle wagons that got broken up in a runaway. The smart thing to do was to jump off the wagon as soon as the horses took off running and just let the horses wear themselves out so they would stop running. Some teams were prone to runaway, so it didn't take much to spook them to just take off running at full speed.
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