LETTERS TO THE EDITOR

Anything to avoid the pitchfork

I was just explaining to a visitor how we used the cable system of hayforks and a sling to put up loose hay in our barn. I concur with Curt Strum (Farm Collector, Letters to the Editor, December 2020) about placing the dropped load to lessen pitchfork work. I was too young to do the mow work, but I drove the tractor for a few years.

As you can see in one of these pictures, the cable is still wound up on a post in the barn alley … just in case we need to use it again. Still have the sling in great condition and the hay wagon too.

I do not like high places, so Dad always went up to move the rigging from mow to mow. This barn