Small quantities no. My mother was in the hayfield every year for over 60 years. I "made" her stop for health reasons about 10 years ago, she had back surgery years before, was causing pain riding the tractor, couldn't turn her head to look back which didn't work with mowing, well couldn't hardly get on the tractor, couldn't unplug it herself if she'd hit something, really wasn't healthy enough anyway, etc. She didn't want to quit. They did a small amount with those small round balers (roto?) earlier (have it yet). But horses were involved for some of it. Large stacks mostly, those big hay cages with the hay heads on them that got winched to the top (still have them). They used those shorter wheel dump rakes, mounted 3 on a tractor, one on each side, one in the back, dump them by hand and try to line the rows up (have the rakes, several, and the mount on a B yet). They moved to the longer hydraulic dump rakes. My uncle and family said he built the first one of those, but "Rowse" got it patented first, he tried but they beat him to it and made him stop. Saw several of my Uncle's rakes around. Later with the Farmhand stacker stacked until my dad died about 20 years ago. I didn't get in the hayfield as early as some, because dad liked to yell/cuss at me very much for everything and nothing, so Mom kept me out until I was probably 11 or so. I ran the rake and later mowed with the mounted double 7 on a JD 530, still never did it right but by that time I could just ignore the "noise". We didn't have a sweep so I'd rake piles as best I could. Used the Farmhand stacker as a sweep. A few years before that they'd have help and a sweep sometimes, did well over 100 stacks. About '96 switched to working with the cousins, they'd bring a couple tractors and a 510 JD round baler, then they'd take back a couple of my tractors, rake, mover, mowers and do theirs and their neighbor's. I didn't start doing my own until '02, then a couple years after that I lost the help.
The stacks were fed by loading on a cable and rack then forked off. Later with a loader, then moved with the stackmover, also had a feeder that went all the way around them. I bought my 2620 Haybuster new in 2000, much better way to feed in my opinion. Nice even row of hay and they can all feed at once without having to knock each other over. Little easier than pitch forks.
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