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Louden Power Hoist 



Above illustrahon shows Louden Single Drum Power Hoist and four horse 

 power gasoline engine lifting 1,000 pounds of hay. The top of the load has been 

 removed with hay fork; a sling is being used for the last load, 

 pletely it cleans up the rack. 



Note how corn- 



There is a great need for time and 

 labor saving equipment in hay har- 

 vest, as the season is short and the 

 crop is valuable. A delay of a few 

 hours may mean a serious loss. 



Louden Power Hoists are de- 

 signed for quick, efficient work. 

 They are so simple that anyone 

 may quickly understand and oper- 

 ate them, and the great numbers in 

 which they are manufactured en- 

 able us to put them on the market 

 at a price within reach of every 

 farmer. 



The hoist may be used with any 

 kind of power — steam, gasoline or 

 electric. Under ordinary condi- 

 tions three or four H. P. is sufficient, 

 though five or six H. P. is better. 

 Engine and hoist may be located in 

 any convenient place. 



The whole operation is extremely 

 simple. Five minutes' practice will 

 put the operator in perfect control 

 of the hoist and its load. 1 ts action 

 is positive and it always responds 

 to the levers. 



The clutch on Louden Power Hoists is simple, powerful, and dependable. The contact blocks are of 

 hard maple and in operation are forced into the cone-shaped metal drive. They are accessible by removing 

 a single pin, and are mounted on eccentric benches, making them adjustable to take up the wear. One 

 set of blocks will last several seasons and they can be replaced for a few cents and in ten minutes' time. 



When help is scarce and high priced, and all the horses are needed in the field, the Power Hoist comes to 

 the rescue and does the work of both a team and man. Not only that, but it does the same work in about 

 one-fourth the time. 



Reduce these facts to figures and you will have the proof of our claim that a Power Hoist will easily 

 pay for itself in a single season. 



There is nothing complicated about it — no delicate mechanism. It is just a plain, common sense, 

 sturdy machine built to handle big loads easily and to save time and labor in hay harvest. 



There is as much difference between unloading hay with a hoist and with horse power as there is 

 between handling it with horse power and with a pitchfork. Try one out this season. 



How long a Power Hoist will last is still to be proved, for the first hoists placed on the market by the 

 Louden Machinery Company, over ten years ago, though much inferior to the later models, are still giving 

 efficient, and satisfactory service. 



The convenience of the hoist is increased for general farm purposes by mountirig it on the same truck 

 with a portable engine. In this manner it is easily moved from place to place and will be handy for practi- 

 cally all of the heavy lifting about the farm and elsewhere, such as removing wagon boxes and hay racks 

 from wagons, cleaning and digging wells, elevating roots from root cellars, and silage from underground 

 silos. It can also be used successfully for storing ice and for elevating grain with a dump box. 



While the Louden Power Hoist is designed primarily for unloading hay, it has been found exceedingly 

 valuable for many other uses. Here is what a builder writes: "We used the Louden Power Hoist in build- 

 ing a concrete stack at the plant of the Iowa Malleable Iron Company. It was most satisfactory and 

 proved a great saving in time and effort. It handled the cement in 800-pound lots as fast as the power 

 mixers were able to deliver it. I am confident from the design and behavior of the hoist that it will handle 

 a ton.' 



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