A long-handled fork used for turning over hay to dry, or in pitching and loading it
Example | Meaning |
And they um were playing- I don't know h-- what they were doing. We had an old um- what the heck is it called? Like um, used to- like a hayfork. Um, i-- it was hanging in the barn for whatever reason, we never u-- we didn't use it. |
Pitchfork |
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Usually put two rows on a sling. And then you put another sling together. And when you got to the barn, there was ah- when you go ahead to pull it off, it was a little different but the same idea as the hay. But it was a hayfork that you just chucked into the hay, but this thing here had to start all on a sling... |
Pitchfork |
Example | Meaning |
Interviewer: How'd you get it out again? Speaker: Ah, you take your hayfork up there and fork it out over the beam down onto the floor and then down through the hole down at the- the passage way there for the... |
Pitchfork |
Speaker: Then we used to take the- we had a- a separate horse on the- the hayfork to ah- but the a- the hayfork into the hay and- Interviewer: Mm-hm. Speaker: The other fellow would get on the- off of the- rope on the other end and- and pull it out to take the hay up and take it over and trip rope and drop it and pull it back down and do this 'til you had your load all off. |
Pitchfork |
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Interviewer: And, when you got the the barn, h-- what- what would you do with that? Speaker: Hayfork. Interviewer: Oh, okay. Speaker: There was a- y-- you drove the- the horses went into the barn with this load of hay and there was a fork thing. And it was on a pulley. |
Pitchfork |
Speaker: And then he reaped it and it went into windrows and then you coiled it. Interviewer: Yes. Speaker: You had a hayfork and you made a little pile. Interviewer: Right, right. Speaker: A little stack. |
Pitchfork |