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rick is not top-heavy. There is little danger of upset- 

 ting upon ordinary farm lands. Also the width of 16 

 feet will pass along country roads without meeting 

 serious obstacles. Hay slings usually are made too 

 narrow and too short. The ordinary little hay sling is 

 prone to tip sideways and spill the hay. It is respon- 

 sible for a great deal of profanity. The hay derrick 

 shown to the right is somewhat different in construc- 

 tion, but is quite similar in action. The base is the 



Figure 156. Cable Hay Stacker. The wire cable is supported by 

 the two bipods and is secured at each end by snubbing stakes. Two 

 single-cable collars are clamped to the cable to prevent the bipods 

 from slipping in at the top. Two double-cable clamps hold the 

 ends of the cables to form stake loops. 



same but the mast turns on a gudgeon stepped into an 

 iron socket mortised into the center timber. 



The wire hoisting cable is threaded differently, as 

 shown in the drawing. This style of derrick is made 

 larger, sometimes the peak reaches up 40' above the 

 base. The extra large ones are awkward to move but 

 they build fine big stacks. 



CALIFORNIA HAY RICKER 



In the West hay is often put up in long ricks in- 

 stead of stacks. One of my jobs in California was to 

 put up 2,700 acres of wild hay in the Sacramento Val- 



