new to me... ever heard of a Tumblebug hay dolly? Something cool with wheels

I was looking at You Tube, and saw a curious video title " How BIG is the plow killer" , and one thing leads to another

so he gets this boulder dug out of his field, then drags it with his tractor to the barns... it's about 8 feet long, 4 feet tall, and 3 feet wide, or 96 cubic feet

and this impressed me the most, a family farm with boulders that were pulled out of fields for over a century, and generations of farmers. I'm surprised they didn't make an enormous chimney out of them, or something. I've never seen anyone collect them like this, and think it's cool to show the perseverance of farmers. By the way, the biggest ones that can't be dragged? Are buried deeper, so they never become a problem again

https://youtu.be/ZHIOYi48Kwg

if it's paid for, rarely breaks down, and is easy to repair... it must be nice to keep using it instead of making payments on new junk that constantly either breaks or has recalls.

https://dailytimewaster.blogspot.com/2026/05/still-working.html

i am IMPRESSED with the new features in the EBY cattle trailer

Skip the 1st 14 minutes to get to the trailer, skip to 15:30 to get to the slam gate. That's one sweet user friendly gate!

Skip to 18:00 to see what's impressed me the most, the slam gate with slider door

It's a hell of a nice design! 

a very rare example of a car with a hay rake used in the hay stacking process (vs baling instead)

https://forums.aaca.org/topic/341211-period-images-to-relieve-some-of-the-stress/page/675/

a Litchfield, Illinois farm started in the 1850s has come to the end, and some very old farming things are being sold off, like 3 farm doodle bugs!

https://bids.aumannauctions.com/auctions/43924-ophelia-l-niemann-national-historic-manske-niemann-farm-living-trust--personal-property

in Montana making hay in an unusual way, with unusual vehicles, and getting help from Amish guys from Pennsylvania (skip the 1st 40 seconds)

I believe the narrator said this is known as a hay stack type storage, and that 3 storey tall gadget is a known as a beaver slide. The rake on it is moved by the winch or motor of this green Chevy that seems to be a WW2 military truck similar to the Dodge Power Wagon

 

because the field is soft due to high groundwater or recent rain, they use these front wheel drive (with chains on the tires) car frame looking home made scooper/tractors to gather the hay and push it sliding across the ground to the beaver slide / lift

the little orange tractor pulling the hay rake is the same as my grand dad's early 50s Allis Chalmers Model B https://justacarguy.blogspot.com/2018/01/does-anyone-recognize-what-manufacturer.html

The flatbed railroad car that carried the thresher was high enough off the ground that a rough log ramp was set up to get the thrasher down.

Curtis Holden Sr. of Otsego (1897-1984) traveled with and worked in a threshing crew through several western states when he was fifteen years old.

According to a 1900 census summary Allegan County had 461,066 acres dedicated to farming.

https://www.facebook.com/photo/?fbid=10209144318760578&set=g.133119313446000

1939 Florida sugarcane farming, great photo of excellent sharpness, and contrast, by the legendary Marion Post Wolcott for the FSA

 https://www.shorpy.com/node/26162

a 1938 John Deere Model G tractor with a restored 1942 Superior hay stacker gets it done a bit easier than the horse and pulley method the generation of farmer before tractors had to use

https://globegazette.com/news/local/s-era-hay-stacker-still-gets-it-done/article_ee464f47-cf54-557c-b8f2-7799c0858b06.html

the 1942 Superior seems to owe some inspiration to this 1909 horse powered lever and pivot hay stacker https://www.gutenberg.org/files/15229/15229-h/15229-h.htm