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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.
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"Ready to stack hay on the Carl Forster ranch on Sheephorn Creek in 1906. Leonard Ambos is on the slip. Notice the guy ropes on the Mormon Stacker. Without them these stackers could easily upset and did once in a while. The buildings seen among the trees on the left are on the Clarence Rundell ranch." -- McCoy Memoirs p.318
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An overshot hay stacker on the Nogal property in Eagle, Colorado. It is also called a Mormon stacker/derrick.
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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...
