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22 comments:
Buckles, this is truely an impressive picture. What was the hay tied with back in those day's? How did they get it off the top without breaking the bales apart? Wade Burck
Boy! I remember when the 18-wheeler would arrive at Circus World loaded with hay, but it was NOTHING like THIS!!
:-)
Cindy Potter
That's a good question. They may have jerked a bale out of the bottom tier, then run like Hell.
How about when it was covered by a foot of snow?
Never mind how did they get the bales down--how did they get them up there?
My grandfather tied his bales with a thick twine.
Robin
Buckles, growing up on a farm in North Dakota, we had hay stacks, but nothing like this. A tractor with a scoop brought down the higher ones. Tarp's held down with ropes, with a rubber tire on each end were thrown over to keep the snow off. This I can't fiqure out. Wade Burck
Wouldn't be a problem to cover it with all the old tent material they would have.
From Eric:
This is one of the most remarkable photos I've ever seen. Like Robin, I'm curious to know how many man-hours it took to stack them up in this manner.
Looks like they cover3ed the Barn for insulation ??? Mr. Lee
Forget about the Hay Stack, I'd like to see the truck it came in on -- and the tip from the driver. Find a needle this pile, maybe there is a strong camel refusing to get his back broke by the last straw. The hay goes in the trunk side, where is the pile that came out by the tail?
This is an engineering marvel that rivals the pyramids and it didn't take thousands of slaves many years to build. My hat is off to the men who built it. I counted 23 bales high and if they were 18 inches each that would be over 34 feet high.
From Eric:
Anyone care to guess how many bales of hay are stacked up here?
wow
would like to to have that stack of hay circuse's in australia are now paying about $16 a bale for good oaten hay this is a goldmine
Robert Perry
Out of sheer curiosity, I agree with Mr. Lee. This looks very much as if that special, peculiar Indiana barn design has been covered with bales either for the purpose of insulation, as suggested, or for the intent of a practical joke on latter-day historians. Some old-timer in Peru has to know the answer.
In drought stricken Australia right now we are paying 30 bucks for a small bale of lucerne hay. This stack would be worth a million bucks! Steve Robinson.
Strange how things go. So much comment over a picture I just tossed in to fill out the set.
And all this time I thought folks logged on to enjoy my acerbic wit.
I showed this photo to a friend who is a farmer here in upstate New York. He proposed that the hay was sent up by a conveyor belt, but he doesn't know how they would get a conveyor belt that tall and how they would support the top end. He was flumoxed and asked to keep the photo to show his fellow toilers of the soil.
When he first viewed the photo his eyes almost popped out of their sockets!
This was probably taken in the 1930s, before there was much farm mechanization beyond the Fordson tractor and the like. And, this was presumably the Peru circus farm, where horses reigned. There were few tractors and trucks, like Macks and others, on the property. And, the trucks would have been on the road with the shows at harvest time. So, you're likely looking at horses, farmers and ropes, sheaves and slides to raise up all those bales. At best they might have rigged up a jib pole on top, for lifting. Primitive, but remember, similar "primitive" laborers built the Egyptian pyramids. Now, think of the fire hazard such a pile represented, and the discipline to keep smokers and their butts away from the stack and the straggling pieces of hay surrounding it.
There's a building on the far right, cropped out. Does it show any clearer in the original?
I'd bet that this pile gave the "boys" bragging rights for a while.
The draft team in the foreground, is a clue to how they got it up. The "flat area" in the background, with supports is where it went up, as well as came down, until it was to the flat support tier. I can't believe they didn't break a whole load of it. And why so much? Doesn't make sense to deliver it out on the road. Possibly sold to locals for additional revenue. If you have enough property to put up that much hay, you'd think you'd have enough property to make 3 or 4 smaller stacks. It is stacked in that "barn shape", and covered, for long term storage through the winter. Wade Burck
P. S. I showed this picture to one of my elephant men, and he gagged, and spit up on himself.
I would imagine that with all the Corporation elephants, menagerie stock and hundreds of horses in quarters each winter, this pile probably only got them through the winter months until foliage was available in the spring again.
Bob
I checked the picture again and it is intact. Nothing cropped out.
Richard Reynolds adds - -
I believe this enormous hay pile was mentioned in Billboard.
Remember, beginning at the end of the 1930 season RBBB sent its huge lot of baggage stock to Peru to be fed and cared for as well. They saved a few head back in 'Sota but the vast majority went to Peru.
That was much cheaper than shipping hay from the midwest to Florida, though they did that until after John Ringling bought the Peru circuses.
And they did it again in the winter on 1934-35 when all the baggage stock stayed in Sarasota. There was a big article in the Sarasota newpaper about making do with Florida hay.
The sad thing is, it is still a few bales of hay short I have loaded and stacked and the many more I will load and stack. God willing!
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