HAY CARRIERS AND KICKERS. Apparatus for Transporting and Ricking Ray.— Fig. 1 represents sectionally a form of hay-carrier made by the .lanesville Hay-Tool Co. When held in position to receive a load, a key is retained in a trip-block by a pair of movable jaws until the fork-pulley rises, and with its registering-head forces them apart at the top, and allows the key to drop beneath and lock them. In Fig. I the car rier is shown as loaded, and the two jaws are held in position by the interposed key until the trip-block releases them by lift ing the key, which is ribbed at its upper end to admit the forked edge of the trip block and receive its lifting effect.
Hay Forks and Wings.—Figs. t? and 3 show the Janesville single deadlock, and Figs. 4 and 5 the Harris double harpoon fork, both closed and opened. Fig. G is the Janesville wagon-sling. Several are used in each wagon-load hay, laid at vals, as the loading proceeds, to remove the load in any number of lifts determined on. It reduces litterings to a minimum. In Fig. 7 it is seen raising the final lift from a wagon. The hay forms a roll when lifted, and unrolls when discharged, as wide as the wagon-load was long, and in the same shape in which it lay in the wagon. Fig.
8 is a right-angle sling-pulley device by the same maker, adapted to work with the self-lock ing hay-carrier and the wagon-sling just described. It is hooked to the end rings of the the hooks being separable for the purpose. As the rolling of the hay progresses, the pulleys mutually approximate until they meet, and the point of the single pulley enters the open space of the double one, where it locks. Both are then elevatell together, until the registering-head engages the carrier-head. Fig. 9 shows an appara tus at work in a hay-barn. By the forward movement of the horse attached to the halyard, the fork-pulley JI rises and engages the carrier A, when the latter grasps its registering-head, unlatches and moves freely along the track H until the attendant jerks his trip-rope A, when the load is discharged and the carrier returned to its original place by the operation of the counter-weight R, where it automatically locks. In locking, it frees the fork-pulley, so
that the attendant can draw the valley down with his trip-rope for a fresh charge of hay. The track may be prolonged as a davit outside the building, and the charges of hay introduced through an end-door at the gable.
The "Acme" and (Fig. 10) are used in concert. With two of the gatherers or sweeps, and one of the tickers, the crop from 12 or 15 acres is stacked in a day by 4 persons and 5 horses. In operating the sweep a horse is attached at each flank, and about i, ton bunched from the windrow, or even from the swaths as left by the mowing-ma chine. and swept upon the ricker-head, a horse passing on either side, and the teeth of the sweep passing between the ricker teeth and transferring the load to them. The horse attached to the hoist of the ricker, by means of a power-drum and pul leys, swings the rieker-head aloft on two long-hinged arms, which, arrested by a stop, pitch the hay forward upon the top of the stack. The rising of the ricker-head leaves space for turning the sweep about to drive away. A counter-weight aids in starting the ricker-head up ward when loaded and downward when empty. The sweep rides on two side-wheels and a rear caster, the latter supporting the weight of the driver, who controls the dip of the sweep teeth by a hand-lever. The Heker-stand may be moved on its runners by two horses along the side of the line of the stack, to make the stack of any length.
Bay-Fork Gatherer : see Hay Carriers and 1lickers.