Produced by the Oregon State College Agricultural Extension Service, this silent film demonstrates a variety of processes and technologies used to harvest, move, bale and store hay. Footage includes scenes of cutting hay with a tractor; building haystacks and loading hay on a wagon with a pitchfork; loading into a barn using a double harpoon fork and a Jackson fork; moving hay with a tractor using a slip; and unloading hay into a barn using a sling.
The film also depicts the use of power-driven buck rakes to handle loose hay; stacking hay with an automatic stacker; chopping hay and blowing it into a barn; using a side-delivery rake to rake hay into windrows; moving hay with two-wheel trailers; using suction to unload hay; and baling hay with a stationary baler and a pick-up baler. The footage concludes with scenes of picking up bales by hand, with a slip, and with a power buck; loading bales with a homemade loader; and hoisting bales into a barn loft using an electrically driver elevator.
Digitized from two film originals held in the Extension and Experiment Station Communications Moving Images (FV120:416 and FV120:417), Special Collections and Archives Research Center, Oregon State University Libraries.
