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Specifications 



For use in any- 

 type or size of 

 barn. 



Built regularly 

 to operate on 

 Louden Dou- 

 ble Bead Steel 

 Track. (See 

 pages 30 and 

 31 for Track 

 and Track 

 Fittings.) 



Furnished regular 

 manilla rope. 



Louden Senior Hay Fork Carrier — Fig. 1100 



with Rope Wheel 



Furnished on special order with Rope Wheel 



for wire draft rope. 

 Diameter of Rope Wheel in carrier and Fork 



pulley, 7 inches. 

 Rope Wheels are roller bearing. 

 Diameter of Track Wheels on treads 3 inches. 

 Track wheels are not roller bearing. 

 Bearing surface on track (distance between 



front and rear axles), 15 inches. 

 Total length of carrier, 2 1 inches. 

 Carries fork within 20 inches of the track. 

 Frame of carrier of refined malleable iron. 

 Rope and Track Wheels special quality gray iron 

 Safe working capacity, 1,500 pounds. 

 5^-inch best manilla rope is recommended. 

 Any size rope from i*4-inch to I inch may be used. 

 One fork Pulley, I Trip Block, and two End Stop 



Blocks are furnished with the carrier. 

 Weight, 34 pounds. 



Fig. 523 

 Illustration shows our patent 

 End Stop for Louden Double 

 Bead Steel Track. Two are fur- 

 nished with the Senior Carrier. 



1100 



Fig. 1123 



Trip Block Furnished as 



Part of Carrier 



Each year there are more and more large 

 barns built, and each year there is an 

 increasing demand and necessity for extra 

 heavy hay-unloading outfits. Hay growers 

 have been asking for a heavy fork carrier, 

 a carrier that could be used for handling a 

 hay fork in the usual way, and that could 

 also be depended upon to handle extremely 

 heavy loads when necessary. The needs 

 and call for such a hay carrier led us to 

 design and put on market the Senior Hay 

 Fork Carrier. 



This Carrier throughout is built strong 

 and sturdy and in addition, its mechanism is simple and sure. It has the wide flaring mouth and the 

 round-topped fork pulley that has been a distinctive feature of Louden Carriers for years. The fork 

 pulley will never fail to register from whatever angle it may be drawn, and the grappling hooks take a 

 deep, sure grip on the pulley. 



The Louden Senior is a "Louden swivel" frame carrier and is equally efficient whether hay is taken 

 up from the end of the barn or from a center driveway. When used in a barn having a center drive, 

 when one end of the barn is filled the pulley at the end of the barn, through which the draft rope passes, 

 is carried over and hung in place at the other end. When this is done a swinging jerk on the draft 

 rope from the wagon or ground will reverse the carrier and it will be ready to work in the other end. 



The Louden Senior has been tested in our factory under loads weighing 2,300 pounds. Operated 

 vigorously under this load, the carrier showed no signs of weakness. We guarantee that it will handle 

 a load weighing 1 ,500 lbs. continuously and with safety. 



The bearing surface on the track — the distance from center to center between front and rear track 

 wheels — is I 5 inches. This wide bearing distributes the load along a greater surface, making it possible 

 for the track to carry large loads without strain. 



The Rope Wheels of the Senior carrier are roller bearing. This large wheel (7 inches in diameter), 

 together with the roller bearing, 7-inch fork pulley, reduces friction to a minimum, and makes the hoisting 

 of the load from wagon much easier than with an ordinary carrier. 



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