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I posted a similar truck like this before. Any of you city boys recall what it's used for?

Hmmmmm..... picking country boy's pockets?......

John

Looks like a well casing or rod puller. Looks like the one we used in about 1975. I helped pull wells for cleaning when I was a teen. Craig

While you city boys are I'll give you a clue. 18 wheelers an animals.

Looks like a movie camera boom truck to me.

On farm buthcering service? The one we use to use had the boom out the back. Not sure what the 18 wheeler is for.

Its to pick up dead animals, so they can be loaded on a trailer.......

It's a hay loading boom truck. They usually have a shortened rear end mounted on the bed that's ran off a pto. In front of the rear end theres a clutch while the axle shaft is attached to a cat head with the rope warped around it. When he pulls the rope tight it engages the clutch which spins the cat head. The rope goes over the boom and lifts the bail. After the bail is set down on the truck, the heavy hook will pull the rope back down as long as the operator has no tension on the clutch.

http://youtube.com/watch?v=vKnnnkojwjw

http://youtube.com/watch?v=HN-Doy3Efdc

Now you city bow are a click or two smarter

http://cdn.speednik.com/files/2013/03/r ... -truck.jpg

http://www.rogerwendell.com/images/movi ... 6-2008.jpg

Modern versions of film camera trucks, but you can see where I'm coming from..

"City-boy", my a$$...!

I have a set of forged hay hooks we used no fancy truck. We were on 40 acres with cattle so there really wasn't a need for an 18 wheeler. We had a 46 dodge to take one at a time to auction. We sold that place when I was 6 years old but I still live in the area.

City boy....hum Bakersfield CA. The only hay hauling tools we had were called hands. Thrown on the back of a hay wagon and then thrown in the hay loft by had and stacked by hand. Well I guess I'm a city boy.

When I was younger I worked for a family that did custom cutting and baling as well as loading/trucking and placing bales in barns. We were lucky to have a bale elevator for the barns but all the rest was picking and throwing up to a hay wagon or truck. No fancy bale tosser thingamajiggy. Hard dusty hot work.

I think I like this contraption better... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WjhPPkPsrCw

They have a similar contraption for block bails.

I spent Summers working on my Uncles' farms. We'd put two
guys on a rack behind a Farmall 1086 Hydro and New Holland
bailer. We kept one of the farm dogs on the rack with us to go after
the ground squirrels we'd flush out... Some of the kids that
were hired from town to walk soybean fields would call me "City Boy".
It was funny because the town I grew up in was smaller than the
town these kids were hired out of. And a bit more rural too...
John

I used to cut cain when I was a kid for local farmers.....hated it soooo much......used to throw bales also....hated that too....but all that manual labor kept me from being a lazy fat kid........I didn't get lazy and fat til I turned 30

Yeah.... Farm work will keep a person slim.
Some of the soybean fields we walked & weeded were 1/2mi.
long. .... and almost as wide. After doing that for a couple
of weeks straight.... riding the hay rack was an "upgrade"
John

How about planting, suckering, cutting, and hanging tobacco. Now that was a real joy. Clearing fields of rocks by hand or running live stock into the family slaughter room no fun either. After all that I knew manual labor wasn't for me!

dodgeboykim wrote:When I was younger I worked for a family that did custom cutting and baling as well as loading/trucking and placing bales in barns. We were lucky to have a bale elevator for the barns but all the rest was picking and throwing up to a hay wagon or truck. No fancy bale tosser thingamajiggy. Hard dusty hot work.

This and having to be there every morning and evening to milk made it clear dairy farming was NOT a career path for me. I just visited with my longtime friend (before grade school) a couple weekends ago and we chatted about this. He said he started about third grade age telling Dad he was NOT going to farm. Took me a bit longer. Firefighting was a MUCH better career for me.

my5thmopar wrote:City boy....hum Bakersfield CA. :lol: The only hay hauling tools we had were called hands. Thrown on the back of a hay wagon and then thrown in the hay loft by had and stacked by hand. Well I guess I'm a city boy. :thinking

During the summers when I was a kid(early 60s), my folks would send me back to Oklahoma to help on relative's farms and dairies. We didn't have any fancy machine to load and stack hay bales, just our hands and backs. I was the first born out here in California, but have that country boy hidden inside still. I'm sure that sort of rig was used on a lot of different things on farms. I got to watch pigs go into one end of the butchering plant and a hour or so later would come out the other end as sausage and pork chops wrapped and ready for the freezer, thought that was pretty cool. City or country boy, have to say a little of both. Wish we had Cracker Barrels out here.

My first job was cleaning the hot sludge out of large oil tanks while wearing an air respirator mask. We meet at 5am to be on location at 6am. Talk about a long day after staying up late with your friends then getting up at 4:15am to make minimum wage of $4.35.

On the way home from work one day I stopped at the downtown Texaco gas station and they had a hire sign in the window. I applied, got the job working the full service gas island making $5.50 plus tips. Best of all my hours were from 10am to 6pm. Much easier hours for having a night life.