Traditional Hay Making

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great video

HOWARD OF BEDFORD hay rake like the one in your video. It has a mechanism on the wheels that seems to be used to raise the rake tines. Does anyone know how it worked. I cannot find details anywhere or anyone that used one in the past.

I’ve been there and done that back in the 60’s, where shaking out and wyneing the hay was concerned. My Da did have a little Grey Fergie 20 TVO tractor and a Fergie mowing bar. The hay cart attached to the tractor via an adopted hitch unit. The cocks that we always knew as wynes were left in the meadow for weeks and by the time that drawing in came, there always was about 6”s of after grass. When well built and raked down, they kept the rain out like a thatched roof. Our Summer holidays back then were decided between the meadow, the bog, carting home the hay, stooking corn and weeding and thinning turnips in the garden. Milking time was almost like a break.
Certainly no time to be bored back in those days!!

Superb! Thank-you!

Great video.

My uncle still has the pierce hay equipment both the yoke the horse would drag and the one like the one shown in the video these were from my grandad who has sadly past on march of this year and id alway askhim about the old gear like whats used in this video my uncle and these video's is now my only source of information on how some horse drawn machinery and how things that were done way back and i found these videos have helpe me get through the rough time i was in from grandad passing on and i watch these and the storys come flowning back from when he use to tell me so these videos mean alot to me as to many others so thank you irish farming and if theres any more videos like these please keep em coming

These are farm tools and implements I have never heard of! I was especially amazed by the hay cart bringing the entire stack of hay onto the cart without spillage. And the grass rope! Wow. Farming really was for the clever. It probably still is, but with different skills in tractor mechanics and machining, not assembling a grass rope.
I have worked a hay field before, hoisting up 75-pound bales onto a wagon then stacking bales higher and higher into a barn. There's a method for moving them without hurting your back, but you learn to always wear long sleeves and pants to prevent scratches. And expect your nose and mouth to get congested from all the hay dust.
The worst part was when the mower impaled a field mouse or rabbit, yuck.

Imagine the days when you could just get drunk and do that all day.

These days the best you can hope for is weekends.

Inside our old barn there is the monorail and hooks that they used to put in loose hay. The walls in the wagon shed still have the harnesses and tack for the horses they used.
I only wish that old barn could talk and tell some stories of days gone by.

I've just found a hay tumbler rake in an old barn I've just bought . I'd only a rough idea how it worked . What a fantastic labour saving device on those hot summer days.

We cut and turn hay by hand still 2021. I'm in the process of turning it this month. Makes great bedding for chickens and winter feed for goats

Good historic info

Thank u.... give this video ☺️

When I was a kid in the late '50's, early 60's, there was still one traditional farmer in our neighborhood. He would get us kids to ride in the hay wagon, (much bigger than the cart shown here), to pack the hay down as they pitched it aboard. When it was in the barn we would be allowed to jump from the upper deck or rafters to pack it in the barn. Great memories of kind, hardworking ppl.

We knew this hay turner as 'the tumbling paddy', the small haystacks we called 'haycocks' they were normally moved by a sleigh device called a 'slipe'

What a vast amount of arduous manual work all done in next to no time by big machines today. Good stuff!

Thanks for the upload, keep them coming...

Why do I get the feeling that these people have forgotten more than we'll ever know!