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What Is It? for 7/29/12

Posted July 29, 2012 12:00 AM
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07/29/2012 1:53 AM

It's a Hudson hay fork carrier....

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07/29/2012 12:26 PM

Or, a hay trolley.
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07/29/2012 2:04 PM

I think the background gave it away.

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07/29/2012 10:56 PM

Nicely done all, had one held my pot rack in my last kitchen

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07/30/2012 12:10 AM

Antique Hudson Barn Hay Trolley Unloader Pulley Carrier

http://www.worthpoint.com/worthopedia/antique-hudson-barn-hay-trolley-unloader-pulley
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07/30/2012 5:14 AM

without any reference to size,it's hard to say but, my guess is that it's one of the trolleys they used to have in department stores to send and receive containers with bill of sale and receipt of cash, or a lifting block, whats missing is the ropes and snatch block with the hook.

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07/30/2012 7:30 AM

It's what they sent the orders back and forth on in the first Hooters. It's now in the Hooters Museum.

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07/30/2012 7:55 AM

Ahh memories....spent many summers operating one of those in my uncles barn. Always when it was hot and humid it seemed!

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07/30/2012 9:52 AM

I believe that there is an unwritten law that says you cannot use a hay trolley UNLESS it is above 90, humidity above 90%, no breeze what-so-ever, full blaring sun, and of course, (biting) horse fly's by the million

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07/30/2012 10:18 AM

We threw our hay into the loft with pitchforks, off a wagon pulled by horses. The rest we stacked around poles in the field. Arkansas in the summer is miserable enough if you aren't doing anything.
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07/30/2012 2:09 PM

But Ar-kansas has some great noodling along with OK.

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07/30/2012 12:59 PM

Suspension trolley for a one man roller coaster....

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07/31/2012 3:32 PM

That is quite an ingenius device. I can see modern applications in home workshops. Thanks for the info.

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08/01/2012 8:45 AM

It was an old rusty hoist, just like the one in SolarEagle's picture of the barn

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