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out washers and the ends of the bolts cut close to the 

 sunken nuts. The front end of the skid is rounded up 

 slightly ^ sled runner fashion, as much as the boards 

 will bear, to avoid digging into the sod to destroy either 

 the grass roots or crowns of the plants. Hay usually is 



Figure 148. (1) Four-Tined Derrick Fork. (2) Pea Guard. An 

 extension guard to lift pea-vines high enough for the sickle is the 

 cleanest way to harvest Canada peas. The old-fashioned way of 

 pulling peas with a dull scythe has gone into oblivion. But the 

 heavy bearing varieties still persist in crawling on the ground. If 

 the vines are lifted and cut clean they can be raked into windrows 

 with a spring tooth hayrake. (3) Haystack Knife. This style of 

 nay-cutting knife is used almost universally on stacks and in hay- 

 mows. There is less use for hay-knives since farmers adopted power 

 hayforks to lift hay out of a mow as well as to put it in. 



forked by hand from the windrows on to the skids. 

 Sometimes hay slings are placed on the skids and the 

 hay is forked on to the slings carefully in layers lapped 

 over each other in such a way as to hoist on to the stack 

 without spilling out at the sides. Four hundred to 

 eight hundred pounds makes a good* load for one of 



