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Me too on both counts.

Sorry, cannot see it. On the sale of items though, ever tried to buy a pitch fork from a garden centre recently? Not me, but apparently most consider such things as farming equipment and you have to find a farm supply outfit to get one. They do have other uses than simply tossing bales of hay, indeed anything that you can stick the forks into can be moved easier, or perhaps its in case they are misused as murder implements as seems to happen a lot on Midsummer Murders?

Brian

The Allis-Chalmers roto baler made little round bales.

The farm behind where I grew up had one. The round bales stopped water ingress a bit like thatch, so they could be left out if there was a rain shower, while conventional 'square' bales allowed water inside if left out. (see later in the video).

The downside was that once the bale reached the required diameter, it tripped the mechanism to encircle the bale with a length of twine fed in from an arm that dropped down, so that the end of the twine was pulled into the far left of the bale and the arm was than driven across the width of the bale, nicely tying it all together with no need for a knotting mechanism.

While this was happening the front roller and conveyor belt stopped so you had to stop the tractor. The farm behind me only had a David Brown 25D which lacked a live-drive PTO, so you had to de-clutch and put it into neutral then wait for the bale to be tied and ejected, then back into gear to move on.

John J snipped-for-privacy@gmail.com wrote

You don't do that with hides, it wrecks the hide.

Essential equipment for peasants storming the vampire's castle.

indeed anything that you can stick the

Sounds credible.

The handle end is similar to that on a docker's hook (purpose: lifting hessian sacks of bulk goods without tearing the material).