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9. Loading Hay
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Gulling Offerson loading hay into barn on bench above Beaver Creek. A two horse team, left foreground, is being used while a team of mules is visible in the left background. The mules are pulling the cables that are lifting the load of hay to the top of the stack. The view is looking east with the Avon "gypsum cliffs" to the left.
[Title supplied from catalog prepared by the Eagle County Historical Society.]
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Stacking hay on the Chester Mayer Ranch (Eagle, Colorado), not the Eagle Ranch subdivision on Brush Creek. The hay was lifted to the top of the stack by a "Mormon Derrick," a weight and pulley arrangement using a crane. The derrick is in the center of the photo with horse teams and rakes "pushing" hay to the loading area.
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Mowing alfalfa using horse teams on the Mayer Ranch at the south end of the town of Eagle. (This ranch property is developed and is called the "Bull Pasture.") There are three teams, each pulling a cutter on which sits a team driver. The first team is driven by Ralph Robertson, Allan Hibbs is next driving the mules, and Frank Hulett is on the back team
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13. Stacking hay
15. Hayfield
16. Loading potatoes
18. Mormon Stacker
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"Ready to stack hay on the Carl Forster ranch on Sheephorn Creek in 1906. Leonard Ambos is on the slip. Notice the guy ropes on the Mormon Stacker. Without them these stackers could easily upset and did once in a while. The buildings seen among the trees on the left are on the Clarence Rundell ranch." -- McCoy Memoirs p.318
[Title supplied from catalog prepared by the Eagle County Historical Society.]