Haytail
Haytail is an agricultural tool widely used until the late 1960s for the loose harvest of hay deposited in swaths on the meadow .
Construction and working method
The device consisted of an iron tubular and flat iron grille structure, about 2.20 m wide and about 1.50 m high, suspended in the three-point hydraulic system , with hollow iron bars tapering to a point at a distance of about 20 cm up to 2.30 m long on the lower edge were screwed. With the rear hydraulics almost completely lowered, the tractor reversed and pushed the crop, which had been deposited in swaths , into a large heap on the haytail. To increase the amount transported, more hay was sometimes piled up on the device using pitchforks . Due to the relatively limited transport capacity, the haytail was mainly used in farms with rounded grassland. The loose crop was transported to the yard with a hay elevator or later with a hay blower to the hayloft . By placing boards on the bars, the haytail could be used as a transport platform for small equipment and materials of all kinds outside of the harvest time. With the introduction of loading wagons and low or high pressure presses, the device disappeared from agriculture.
Only in the Alpine region on hillside implement carriers or motor mowers was the haytail able to stay in a niche.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Bentele, Josef, reports from days gone by, memories of a West Allgäu from the good old days. 200 pp., 2012, ISBN 3-8482-1480-6 , ISBN 978-3-8482-1480-8 , p. 148.