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Louden Balance Grapple Hay Forks— Continued 



times as long and requires about three times as much hard work to unload a load of clover hay with a har- 

 poon fork as it does with a Louden Balance Grapple Fork. The fork puts Us arms, so to speak, around 

 a great bunch of hay and binds it in — » ^»=»^ 



Nature's own way, just as you would 

 pick it up and hold it in your arms. 

 Working in clover hay, the grapple 

 fork will pay for itself in two days' 

 use and will save a lot of hard work. 



Alfalfa Hay 



The Louden Grapple Fork will 

 make equally as good a showing m 

 one kind of hay as it does in another. 

 It handles them all as nearly the right 

 way as any fork could possibly do. 

 The Louden Grapple Fork, however. 

 is exceptionally strong in alfalfa. It 

 has an affinity for alfalfa hay. It will 

 take alfalfa hay from the wagon and 

 carry it into the hay mow or up on to 

 the stack in such big bunches that 

 users are astonished and delighted with 

 its efficiency. Another thing, when the 

 fork lets go of the hay it spreads it 

 out and makes it easy to mow away. 



Fig. 686 (Farmer) 



Extra large 6-Tine 

 Fork Closed 



Louden Extra Large G-Tine Balance 

 Grapple Fork 

 Specifications 



Spreads when open, 6 feet 7 inches. 

 Width between outside tines, 25 inches. 

 Tines go into hay 24 inches. 

 Weight. 50 pounds. 



Fig. 648 (Prophet) 

 4-Tine Fork Open 



Louden Standard 4-Tine Balance 

 Grapple Fork 



Specifications 



Spreads when open. 58 inches. 

 Width between outside tines, 19 inches. 

 Tines go into hay 24 inches. 

 Weight, 40 pounds. 



It drops every straw and no hay is left clinging to 

 the tines and bothering in that respect. 



Other Hay 



The Louden Balance Grapple Fork will handle any 

 kind of hay. In the Far North where the Canada field 

 pea flourishes and in the Far South where the cow pea 

 blooms, the fork is handling the work successfully and 

 growing in popularity each year. The grapple fork 

 will successfully handle threshed straw. Many 

 Michigan customers are using the fork for putting their 

 bean crops into sheds preparatory to threshing. Where 

 there is hay or forage of any kind to handle, the 

 Louden Balance Grapple Fork will do it successfully. 



At first thought it might seem a fork of this size 

 would be hard to handle. On the contrary, it is easy 

 to handle. When the hay carrier is returned to the 

 trip block and the fork pulley is released, the fork will 

 settle down to the wagon without any pulling or hauling. 

 The fork goes down open all ready to set into the hay. 

 The man on the load can grasp the fork as it comes 

 down and swing it into position and set it into the hay 

 just as easy and just as quickly as a harpoon fork. 



The fork is furnished in three sizes. The Standard 

 6-tine size is the one most largely used. The 4-tine 

 fork is exactly the same as the 6-tine fork except the 

 center tine is left out on each side. The extra large 6- 

 tine fork is built heavier throughout than the other 

 forks. The Standard size 6-tine and 4-tine forks are 

 large enough for practical use under average conditions. 

 The extra large fork is desirable for clover and alfalfa 

 where extremely heavy loads are to be handled. 



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