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Charley McCoy and Jake Johannbroer cutting hay on Conger Mesa, 1912.
[Title supplied from catalog prepared by the Eagle County Historical Society.]
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The Gay-Bar (Clark) Ranch as seen from Bellyache Mountain, October 1949. Highway 24, the Eagle River, and WIlmor[e] Lake are all visible at midground. Hay stack visible in closest field. [color degradation]
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"Sheephorn ranch."
Photo postcard showing a hay stacker in a field. A person is standing on the haystack at center. This is probably the Rundell ranch at Sheephorn Creek. The Rundell ranch is mentioned in John Ambos' book,McCoy Memoirs, p.315-317.
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Stacking hay on the Chester Mayer Ranch (Eagle, Colorado), not the Eagle Ranch subdivision on Brush Creek. The hay was lifted to the top of the stack by a "Mormon Derrick," a weight and pulley arrangement using a crane. The derrick is in the center of the photo with horse teams and rakes "pushing" hay to the loading area.
[Title supplied from catalog prepared by the Eagle County Historical Society.]
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Mowing alfalfa using horse teams on the Mayer Ranch at the south end of the town of Eagle. (This ranch property is developed and is called the "Bull Pasture.") There are three teams, each pulling a cutter on which sits a team driver. The first team is driven by Ralph Robertson, Allan Hibbs is next driving the mules, and Frank Hulett is on the back team
[Title supplied from catalog prepared by the Eagle County Historical Society.]
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Iva and Marvin haying on Congor Mesa Road (Leonard Horn's place).
7) Stacking hay
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Two men stacking hay using a Mormon Derrick at Squaw Creek. A hay slide is at right foreground, between a man and a boy.
[Title supplied from catalog prepared by the Eagle County Historical Society.]
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Leonard G. Ambos cutting hay, August 1925.
Verso: "The 'Kid' himself"
[Title supplied from catalog prepared by the Eagle County Historical Society.]
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"Ray" [processing date Aug 65]
Ray Miller working a baler in the hayfield.
"New Holland brand baler, with power provided by mounted engine. Towed by International Farmall tractor, either H or probably M. Baler is newer than the tractor." -- Stu Dykstra, Feb. 2015
10) Haas Barn
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Putting hay into Haas barn at Sandstone Creek Ranch. From left: Jim Fanning, Frank Haas, Cliff Ingram, -----; Chuck Becker is on top of the hay wagon.
[Title supplied from catalog prepared by the Eagle County Historical Society.]
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Three children and a ladder next to a very large haystack on the Sherman Ranch, July 1914.
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An overshot hay stacker on the Nogal property in Eagle, Colorado. It is also called a Mormon stacker/derrick.
13) Rundell ranch
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"Sheephorn ranch."
Photo postcard showing a hay stacker in a field with teams of horses and the stacker rakes.
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"Stacking alfalfa hay with a Mormon stacker on the Conger Mesa Schrupp ranch in 1912. In those days, after hay was cut and raked it was first put in shocks and when ready to be stacked it was loaded on slips or wagons with a fork after hay slings had been placed on the bed of the slip or wagon. Arriving at the stack yard, the stacker, operated by the same horses that brought in the load, picks up the sling load of hay, raises and swings it around...
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Hay field with cut hay on the Bar-Gay Ranch, Edwards, Colorado. Horse team at midfield.
16) Men in hay field
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"Ranchers look over the first cutting of hay on July 24, 1914, at the Sherman ranch east of Eagle. Alfalfa and Timoth hay were among the crops that thrived in the mountain valley climate." -- Early Eagle, by Kathy Heicher p.51
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Uncle Frank Montgomery and William (father) Eaton on McCoy Creek Ranch. The men are standing in front of a huge haystack with other haystacks visible.
[Title supplied from catalog prepared by the Eagle County Historical Society.]
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Mounds of hay at the Fenno Ranch, Squaw Creek.
[Title supplied from catalog prepared by the Eagle County Historical Society.]
19) Newell Buffehr
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Newell Buffehr confronting a horse team pulling a hay wagon on the Buffehr ranch. Behind them, a man is standing on a haystack.
Newell was cited as one of six landowners in the Gore Creek Valley in 1959 by Dick Hauserman [Inventors of Vail p.7]: "John Hanson, Gust Kaihtipes, Pete Katsos, Henry Anholtz, Newell Buffehr, and Jay Pulis."
Newell and his wife Mary moved to Denver for Mary's health. She died in 1962.
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July 25, 1914, first cutting of hay on the Sherman Brothers Ranch. Yield: 92 ton 800 # from 17 acres. Men are moving hay with pitchforks from wagons. Hay stack in background.
