Re: hay sweep

Posted by Leroy on July 04, 2007 at 07:17:26 from (216.201.38.45):

In Reply to: hay sweep posted by sheeptick on July 03, 2007 at 21:12:52:

Those hay sweeps or as was commely called a buck rake were mounted on either end of an old car chassie, trucks were never used depending on who was doing the conversions, most were mounted on the back end tho. And the transmissions were never changed around, you use reverse to load if it was mounted on the back end and then foward to go for the barn and hay was never piled in the field with them. We had a 1929 Buick 4 door car that had the back seat cut off at the back edge of the center door post but 2 feet of the roof was left on as weather protector as when the buckrake was not being used for hay or straw it was used to move machinery from farm to farm, would just slide the forks up under the disc or cultipacke, raise and head down the road. In the off season when the rake would not be used the rake was removed and a wood pickup (homemade) was mounted in its place, that old buick hauled a lot of cow and hog feed from the feed mill with that bed. 8 mile to feed mill. So think, how would you be using the buckrake for anything else if that transmission was bessed up being reversed. Low was fast enough to load and with that old Buick Dad would walk the loads of hay out of the field in high gear while most of the buckrakes were made with Model A Fords and they had trouble getting the load out in low gear and keeping the front end on the ground. It would have been unthinkable to reverse the transmission for 1 speed forward and 3 in reverse.How would you ever get to town doing that? They were driven to town after parts on so on instead of the family car and no one had a pickup truck at that time. Those mounted on the front end you had trouble seeing the road to go to the barn. In using ours Dad would start ours down the windwrow in reverse, set the hand throttle step out on the running board to look at the back, row, without having to turn around, at ene of load would just get back in ,stop raise the load and put in high gear babk to the barn.

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