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Heavy Bamford's Patent LION Horse Hay Rake Plaque
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Large heavy hay rake maker's plate. Marked "Bamford's Patent" with a nice relief LION. Marked " Lion Horse Rake" and iI believe it is a makers plaque from an early farm hay rake. Cleaned and coated brown. Measures 9 1/2 inches tall and 8 inches wide with two large bolt holes for attachment. Weighs almost 7 pounds and is 3/8 inches thick.
Hay rake A hay rake is an agricultural rake used to collect cut hay into windrows for later collection (e.g. by a baler). It is also designed to fluff up the hay and turn it over so that it may dry. A hay rake may be mechanized, drawn by a tractor or draft animals, or it may be a hand tool. Rotary tedder A rotary tedder is a mechanical hay rake attached to a tractor's three point hitch. It is also connected to the tractor's power take-off. T are large wheels on the tedder with tines on them to flick over the hay, driven by the tractor's power take-off. When t has been rain and the windrow is wet wet, the tedder can be used to turn the row over so that it can dry out. Hay Hay is grass or legumes that has been cut, dried, stored, and used for animal feed, particularly for grazing animals like cattle, horses, goats and sheep. Small pets such as guinea pigs and rabbits also enjoy hay, though they only consume very small quantities. Pigs may be fed hay, but they do not digest hay very efficiently. Hay is fed when or w t is not enough pasture or rangeland on which to graze an animal, when grazing is unavailable due to weather - such as during the winter, or when lush pasture by itself is too rich for easy digestion by the animal. It is also fed during times when an animal is unable to access pasture, such as when animals are kept in a stable or barn. Contents of hay Good quality hay should be green, not too coarse, and contain plant heads and leaves as well as stems. This is fresh grass/alfalfa hay, newly baled. Poor quality hay is dry, bleached out and coarse-stemmed. Sometimes, hay stored outdoors will look like this on the outside but still be green inside the bale. A dried, bleached or coarse bale is still edible and provides some nutritional value as it long as it is dry and not moldy, dusty, or rotting. Commonly used plants for hay include mixtures of grasses such as rye grass (Italian rye grass, Lolium multiflorum), timothy, brome, fescue, coastal bermuda, orchard grass, and other native species, depending on region. Many types of hay may also include legumes, such as alfalfa (lucerne) and clovers (red, white and subterraneum). Pasture flowers are also sometimes a part of the mix, though other than legumes, which ideally are cut pre-bloom, flowers are not necessarily desired, and in some cases may be toxic to animals. Oat, barley, and wheat plant materials are occasionally seen in hay products, though usually in the form of straw, a harvest byproduct w only the stems are dried and baled after the grain is harvested. Straw is used for animal bedding and generally is considered poor animal fodder, though sometimes it is used as a source of empty calories to give animals a feeling of fullness or satiety when on an otherwise restricted diet. It is the leaf and seed material in the hay that determines its quality. Farmers try to harvest hay at the point when the seed heads are not quite ripe and the leaf is at its maximum when the grass is mowed in the field. The cut material is allowed to dry so that the bulk of the moisture is removed but the leafy material is still robust enough to be picked up from the ground by machinery and processed into storage in bales, stacks or pits. Hay is very sensitive to weather conditions, particularly when it is harvested. In drought conditions, both seed and leaf production are stunted, making hay that has a high ratio of dry coarse stems that have very low nutritional values. If the weather is too wet, the cut hay may spoil in the field before it can be baled. The hay may also develop rot and mold after being bale...
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