Hay-sweep are essentially large, stout, coarse
rakes, with teeth projecting both ways, like those of a common revolver; a horse is attached
to each end, and a boy rides each horse. A horse passes along each side of the windrow,
and the two thus draw this rake after them, scooping up the hay as they go. When 500 lbs.
or more are collected, they draw it at once to the stack or barn, and the horses turning
about at each end, causing the gates to make half a circle, draw the teeth backward from
the heap of hay,
and go empty for another load-the teeth on opposite sides being thus used
alternately. In Fig. 95 the apparatus is shown separate, and in Fig. 96 in operation.
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