The article about the Jayhawk stacker (Farm Collector,
June 2006, page 28) is misleading. The Jayhawk and the overshot
stackers were two very different types of stackers. I worked around
both kinds in the early 1940s. The overshot was a stationary type,
staked down at the stack site and the hay was pushed up on the
teeth with a buck rake and a team of horses pulled the teeth up
with a rope attached to the lift arms. The hay was dumped off of
the backside of the tines onto the stack.
the backside of the tines onto the stack.
Really like the magazine, just ordered the CD archive of back
issues.
– William A. Davis
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Platte City, MO 64079
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