Darrell and Meg Stamper will mow, rake, collect and stack 25 acres of hay this year near Luther, Okla. They enjoy the traditional way of harvesting a hay crop, using horses and turn-of-the-century ...
Early pioneers used scythes and sickles to cut the hay and then piled it up with wooden forks. In the 1940s came the twine, automatic tie baler which was pulled behind a tractor and produced a 60- to ...