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Pittsburg, Kansas | The hay would have likely been mowed (in 1920) with horses, raked up with a sulkey rake into windrows with horses, gathered up with a buck rake with horses and brought to a stationary baler powered by horses, hand fed into the press by pitch fork and hand wire tied bales with wires fed in through a woden block that seperated the bales in the bale chamber.
I got to poke wires in one of those stationary balers when I was about 6 for a relative that never made the transition to tractors from horses.
A full crew would be six or seven guys and numerous horses or mules.
John
Edited by John Burns 1/13/2018 20:10
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1920s
