hay wagon?
How did you get the hay into the hayloft? I remember one of my uncles didn't use bales, they lifted with block & tackle and a large fork like contraption. At one time they used a horse to lift it, but I only saw them do it with a truck. He never mowed with a tractor, used a scythe his entire life.
What you just described is exactly what I grew up with. We pulled the hay wagon into the big barn doors on one side which had equal big barn doors on the other side. we unhooked the horses from the wagon and then to the pulley arrangement that terminated in the great iron hook you plunged down into the hay, drove your foot down hard to lock it in and then the horses went forward to lift it up to the rafters, slide it sideways and the stop so you could pull the handle and drop that load into the hay mow and reverse back for another load. Quite a process. I loved it.
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