Photo Number 271

I think this is a hay wagon and a hay loader. There are three men in this photo.  Although the photo is a little blurry, the team of  horses are wearing fly nets.  Up here when the flies were bad, you attached the nets to the hames, the nets with their dangling strings  helped to keep the biting flies at bay especially when the horses were moving.

 I wish the rider on the horse was not in the way.. I wanted a closer look at the hay loader in action.  There are many of these hay loaders sitting like old dinosaurs in some of the old fence lines. One of our neighbors has one sitting at the end of their driveway, she has vines trying to grow up it.  I remember when my Dad made loose hay..before balers.  But he had a tractor.  I remember getting the slings positioned just right on the wagon was a big deal.  I can still see huge bunches of hay disappearing into the haymow.
This photo is not marked with a date..maybe it is from the 1930's.
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