Does anyone know how a beaverslide works

[FarmboyBill]

I dont understand what causes the whatever it is carrying hay up the side is tripped and dumps it over the side, than resets itself and come backs down the slide?

[Windy in Kansas]

The basket holding the hay is pulled to the top of the slide with horses or a vehicle, etc. The hay merely falls over the edge when it reaches the top.

This site explains its use. http://stephenbodio.blogspot.com/200...averslide.html

The one tells how to build one. http://art.mt.gov/folklife/folklife_beaverslide.asp

[FarmboyBill]

From the pics Ive seen, the (basket) has teeth that lays against the slide going up, and teeth behind the load as its going up. My question is, When it reaches the top, what makes the teeth that rode up the slide, flop down and drop the hay. Were the teeth on the slide longer which would cause them to hold more hay laying on them than the weight on the teeth up in the air. BUT< If that was the case, after they dropped, What would cause them to straighten back again so they could slide back down the slide??

[Windy in Kansas]

The slide contains slats that the hay rides against while being pushed by the basket. When the basket reaches the top the slats end and the hay simple falls without the basket teeth tipping at all.

This images shows the hay starting to fall over the end of the slats and as you can see the basket teeth remain in the same position.



From this blogspot: http://stephenbodio.blogspot.com/200...averslide.html

[FarmboyBill]

Than the teeth on the bottom are few and spaced wide in the basket, and the same way at the top of the slide

[Windy in Kansas]

The only thing to the basket itself is the teeth that the hay rests on as it is being raised up the slats.

This photo shows that hay is being placed on the teeth and that there is no bottom to the basket at all. Once raised to the portion where there are no slide slats it simply falls to the stack.

[rancher1913]

windy is that your family in the photos. great explaining. I was going to try explaining it but your pitchers do so much better. spent many a summer on a 2n ford hay buck and sometimes (not offen) miss it, nowdays its 4x4x8 big bales.

[Windy in Kansas]

Originally Posted by rancher1913

windy is that your family in the photos. great explaining. I was going to try explaining it but your pitchers do so much better. spent many a summer on a 2n ford hay buck and sometimes (not offen) miss it, nowdays its 4x4x8 big bales.

Nope, not my family. As a matter of fact until this thread was posted I had never even heard of a beaverslide. The websites and photos did all of the explaining.

Our family mainly used a McCormick-Deering grain binder to bundle cane which we put into shocks or as some say, stooks.

Dad did try small round bales made with an Allis Chalmers Roto-Baler, but found them too hard to handle. Tried bucked cane but again didn't care for it. Even tried silage but our place was too flat and the juices set in the bottom of the pit silo and soured OR SOMETHING and the cattle wouldn't eat it. Fellow that had been putting up silage for several years did the work so should have known how. Expect a pit should not have been used at our place.

I have always wanted to use a drawn hay loader since first seeing photos of one. That or binder bound feed.

Image at this site: http://www.nps.gov/slbe/planyourvisit/portoneida.htm

[Explorer]

I have watched these being used in the Wisdom valley of southwestern Montana. That is an interesting place as the hay farmers and ranches reminded me of things long ago. The self closing wooden gates and then there was the Texas gates.

[FarmboyBill]

Ok I got a bertter handle on it now. I think. So, when the hay drops over the side at the top does the back teeth just lay down against the floor of the slide as its pulled back down again?
As to loose hay loaders. Ive had one,well 2 now. I had a McDeering when I was round 19yrs oldPut up haygrazer that was cut at around 2 or 3ft. When I went over it with the loader, it seemed like there was 2 windrows comeing over to meet me. Worked the hell outa me. I have a NI loader now. Havnt never used it. I bought LR Millers haying with horses, and hes got a ton of pics in there. I cant find anybody who knows anything about a 1960 Casae 140 W baler. If I cant get it to tie, I might consider going loose.