I used to watch this event every year from 1963 until 1968 when I got drafted. I have told lots of people about the event and always marveled at the speed. Most of the competitors in those days were my school friends (Antelope Valley Joint Union High School) and their brothers. Most of the alfalfa growers in the area competed with their hook trucks from straight off the farm. Wow, I miss seeing that...
We used to boomswing bales off trucks parked in front of the dairy all the way across the yard and into a barn and fill it to the top when I was a kid..tje boomtruck was a 66 chevy truck chassis with about a 30 ft boom with a rope winch made out of a rear axle..
I've never seen cable booms like that before to load bales. we've used haybale slips behind tractors, haybale elevators, hand held hay hooks, & aprons!
I stacked hay with both of those guys, Brian and Danny. At 48, I have respect for the hay buck, my dad made me stack manger loads at 16. Hard work but Danny would throw off and say “get in the truck, ride the clutch”. 45 min later he went for another. Legend.
Dad hauled hay for some 40 years. That Eldert Van Dam that the announcer spoke of used to unload Dad years ago when he was in his teens. That hay haulin' used to be tough work....much easier now with the squeeze.
Nick van dam is my cousin. My name is Michael Haseltine and I live in Oklahoma. His mom was my mom's sister Nick's mom's name was Dorthy Cornelison before she married Art Can Dam. Then Art died in a car wreck and my aunt Dorthy died of breast cancer. Nick has been through a whole lot especially in his younger years.
Made me motivated for work tomorrow. I myself work as a hay sales person. Just started but getting the hang of the stacking. The lifting isn't so much of a problem to me as it is to other people. Cool video!
Lol I remember doing it all by hand I'm 31.... we would fill semi trucks on Friday me and my Co worker and the boss man with a grapple feeding it to us fun Friday 😀
You fellers are fancy. Sure beats throwing them from the ground that high. Good job boys.....any you fellers doing anything around may of next year? Lol.
Yes ihave one from back in the day a bill ward hayloader that truns complet 360 iwould sell it for the right price ihave been restoring it Gilbert hernandez
It is a pickup or car rear axle narrowed &one wheel has a rope wound around wheel up to boom down to hook , then the other wheel end has the brake actuated by the rope in the operate hand & when he pulls on brake rope it makes the hook pull the bale up . The rear axle can't be a posi track or any locker type rear axle.
Cables to help lift & guide??.. WTF is up with that??,.. If the were true & honest men in a true old fashioned bale bucking contest they wouldn't need let alone be able to use anything to help, it actually ruins the whole point of the contest which is supposed to be who has the most stamina and strength to get r done as well as speed (cables reduce the amount of the stamina & strength needed in the repetition of the contest also reduce the chances of the bales dropping if the toss is misjudged or not done properly ) bunch of cheaters for sure
I used to watch this event every year from 1963 until 1968 when I got drafted. I have told lots of people about the event and always marveled at the speed. Most of the competitors in those days were my school friends (Antelope Valley Joint Union High School) and their brothers. Most of the alfalfa growers in the area competed with their hook trucks from straight off the farm. Wow, I miss seeing that...
Perfect camera work until the exact moment we needed to see the finish and it panned down. Boohoo
We used to boomswing bales off trucks parked in front of the dairy all the way across the yard and into a barn and fill it to the top when I was a kid..tje boomtruck was a 66 chevy truck chassis with about a 30 ft boom with a rope winch made out of a rear axle..
I've never seen cable booms like that before to load bales. we've used haybale slips behind tractors, haybale elevators, hand held hay hooks, & aprons!
I stacked hay with both of those guys, Brian and Danny.
At 48, I have respect for the hay buck, my dad made me stack manger loads at 16.
Hard work but Danny would throw off and say “get in the truck, ride the clutch”.
45 min later he went for another. Legend.
Thanks for the show. 1st time for me to see this. Later.
Dad hauled hay for some 40 years. That Eldert Van Dam that the announcer spoke of used to unload Dad years ago when he was in his teens. That hay haulin' used to be tough work....much easier now with the squeeze.
Nick van dam is my cousin. My name is Michael Haseltine and I live in Oklahoma. His mom was my mom's sister Nick's mom's name was Dorthy Cornelison before she married Art Can Dam. Then Art died in a car wreck and my aunt Dorthy died of breast cancer. Nick has been through a whole lot especially in his younger years.
More like Fart Van Dam
Huh!!! I’ve been baking hay my whole life I never knew this was a thing 👍👍 that’s some good lookin alfalfa 👌
Hola! Exelente trabajo! Me gustaría saber como trabaja el mecanismo para levantar?!?!?!
Made me motivated for work tomorrow. I myself work as a hay sales person. Just started but getting the hang of the stacking. The lifting isn't so much of a problem to me as it is to other people. Cool video!
This is my type of people
Bellissimo video 🌈 🌞
Love it in wich city
I did that 51 years ago back then we went 13'6" high
Lol I remember doing it all by hand I'm 31.... we would fill semi trucks on Friday me and my Co worker and the boss man with a grapple feeding it to us fun Friday 😀
Does any body know the old name of those cable winches are called???
I think it called a hay boom truck
Who won
You fellers are fancy. Sure beats throwing them from the ground that high. Good job boys.....any you fellers doing anything around may of next year? Lol.
Looking for boom to use on ranch. Does anybody know of one Thanks
Yes ihave one from back in the day a bill ward hayloader that truns complet 360 iwould sell it for the right price ihave been restoring it Gilbert hernandez
I can’t imagine how bad their arms were burning 😂
How does that cable work, what is it called
me Yo it’s called cheating :)
@@davidlamb6342 agreed, 100%
It is a pickup or car rear axle narrowed &one wheel has a rope wound around wheel up to boom down to hook , then the other wheel end has the brake actuated by the rope in the operate hand & when he pulls on brake rope it makes the hook pull the bale up . The rear axle can't be a posi track or any locker type rear axle.
That's not bucking hey there using a cable the stacks look like crap
Mark Gonzales lol shut the fuck up
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Also this isn't bucking hay exactly the way we do it in southwest Oklahoma
Or Texas
Johnny Williams ThIs IsNt BuCkInG HaY blah blah blah
Yeah no machine to help 110 best shape of my life was a summer doing this in central Oklahoma
Would be a real competition if they threw them up bare handed like I was made to do during the summers.
Hell there were more shitters in the background than there were people gathered to watch
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“...all by hand...” What? They have a pulley.
It's sad that this skill is slowing dying because of automation and round and modular bales but me I'm 14 and can buck hay like no one's business
Johnny Williams in Saskatchewan, we used to through bales like that with a pitchfork
Cables to help lift & guide??.. WTF is up with that??,.. If the were true & honest men in a true old fashioned bale bucking contest they wouldn't need let alone be able to use anything to help, it actually ruins the whole point of the contest which is supposed to be who has the most stamina and strength to get r done as well as speed (cables reduce the amount of the stamina & strength needed in the repetition of the contest also reduce the chances of the bales dropping if the toss is misjudged or not done properly ) bunch of cheaters for sure
I am that man