Tdubb 21 #1 Posted March 6, 2017 I know what it is, do you? Have you ever used one? 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Sparky-(Admin) 19,806 #2 Posted March 6, 2017 Some kind of trolley...runs on a steel "i" beam I think. Just a guess of course. Nope, never used one. Mike..... 2 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Tdubb 21 #3 Posted March 6, 2017 (edited) It is a trolley. It ran on a wooden beam, hay loft of a barn built in 1893. It was my mom's barn we had it knocked down last February, thought we would clean it up by hand. Last weekend we rented a mini excavator and dug a hole and burned it. I was hoping to,find this trolley unharmed. Here's a picture of it on a treated 4x4 in my work shop. I plan to sandblast it and paint it, then hang it on an old piece of her barn wood and mount a light from where the rope dropped from. Edited March 6, 2017 by Tdubb 2 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Ed Kennell 36,244 #4 Posted March 6, 2017 Trolley for a hay hook. 3 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Tdubb 21 #5 Posted March 6, 2017 12 minutes ago, Ed Kennell said: Trolley for a hay hook. Yes sir Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Ed Kennell 36,244 #6 Posted March 6, 2017 In action. 4 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
KC9KAS 4,741 #8 Posted March 6, 2017 I was the "trip" man when putting up hay in my great-uncle's barn in the mid sixty's. He used a small FORD tractor to pull the hay up and into the barn. 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
857 horse 2,581 #9 Posted March 6, 2017 thank-you to everyone for all the pics and the video,,,,,,,,this was great to learn.... Howard 857 horse in VA 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
AMC RULES 36,963 #10 Posted March 6, 2017 (edited) https://www.google.com/search?q=vintage+hay+trolley&rlz=1C1CHBF_enUS731US732&espv=2&biw=1920&bih=950&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwi43Pv84cHSAhWIKyYKHU1PADYQ_AUIBygC#imgrc=_ http://www.ebay.com/bhp/hay-trolley Edited March 6, 2017 by AMC RULES 2 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
953 nut 52,655 #11 Posted March 6, 2017 Growing up we used Mule Power for a few jobs and putting hay in the loft was one of them. We didn't have a tow-able baler at the time and used a belt driven stationary one similar to the one pictured below. The Hay trolley was originally designed to place loose hay in the barn, but ours has been modified to lift four bales at a time. I would guide the mule forward as the hay laden trolley went up and then went over the loft. The man who was placing the bales would trip the mechanism to drop the bales near where he would place them. Once I heard them fall I would back the mule up ( that was the tricky part). I was probably six or seven when this was replaced with a new baler and an elevator. Thanks for the trip down memory lane. 3 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Tdubb 21 #12 Posted March 6, 2017 43 minutes ago, AMC RULES said: https://www.google.com/search?q=vintage+hay+trolley&rlz=1C1CHBF_enUS731US732&espv=2&biw=1920&bih=950&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwi43Pv84cHSAhWIKyYKHU1PADYQ_AUIBygC#imgrc=_ http://www.ebay.com/bhp/hay-trolley Thanks for this, I hadn't Googled it yet and this has lots of neat ideas. I'm suddenly seeing 3 lights instead of 1. 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Ed Kennell 36,244 #13 Posted March 6, 2017 This is actually the first I ever saw the 4 bale hay hook. The only one I used was for loose hay. And it was powered be me and my pony..Bob. He was also used for cultivating corn and pulling coal from a mine my Grandfather had hand dug. Bob was a good worker, but I think he enjoyed stepping on my feet as I led him between the rows of corn. circa...1946 Grandad came out of the mine every day for lunch and spent this lunch with his new daughter....my mother. circa.....1924 3 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Tdubb 21 #14 Posted March 6, 2017 Wow, how cool. I never dreamed posting a picture of this thing would create all this neat history. 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites