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Identifier: farmmachineryfar00davi (find matches)
Title: Farm machinery and farm motors
Year: 1908 (1900s)
Authors: Davidson, Jay Brownlee Chase, Leon Wilson
Subjects: Agricultural machinery
Publisher: New York, O. Judd company (etc., etc.)
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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n built strong enough to standhard service. 257. Forks.—A cable outfit may be arranged with acarrier and fork for field stacking, the cable beingstretched between poles and supported with guy ropes.This outfit works the same as the barn tools to be de-scribed later. Very high stacks may be built by thismethod. A single inclined pole may be used in stacking byraising the fork load to the top and swinging over thestack. This is usually a home-made outfit, with the ex-ception of fork and the pulleys. BARN TOOLS 258. Development.—The introduction of the field hay-ing tools created a demand for machinery for the unload-ing of the load of hay at the barn, and this led to thedevelopment of a line of carriers and forks, the first ofwhich was a harpoon fork, a patent for which was issuedto E. L. Walfer, September, 1864. In 1873 a Air. Nellispatented a locking device, which has given to this forkthe name of Nellis fork. J. E. Porter began the manufacture of a line of carriers FARM MACHINERY
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FIG. 136—TYPES OF STEEL AND WOOD HAY CARRIER TRACKS HAYING MACHINERY 183 and hay tools at Ottawa, Illinois, in 1868. This firm isstill doing business. P. A. Meyers was another pioneerin the hay tool business, and in 1866 patented a doubletrack made of two T-bars. In 1887, J. E. Porter placedupon the market a solid steel rail. 259. Tracks.—A large variety of tracks is to be foundupon the market to-day—the square wooden track, thetwo-piece wooden track, the single-piece inverted T steeltrack, the double steel track made of two angle bars, andvarious forms of single- and double-flange steel tracks.Wire cables are used in outdoor work. Various forms of track switches and folding tracks areto be found upon the market. By means of a switch it ispossible to unload hay at one point and send it out infour different directions. In circular barns it is possibleto arrange pulleys in such a way that the carrier will becarried around a circular track. 260. Forks are built in a variety of shap

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