Brush Creek, Colorado
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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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Kilgore property with Brush Creek in the background, c. 1916-17. Haystack and automobile in left of photo.
3) Stacking Hay
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"Pa Pa stacking hay on the Sproule place (Brush Creek). Granny in front taking a picture." Hans Larsen Caption taken from photograph.
4) Hay Derrick
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Hans Larsen is hanging from the pulley of a hay derrick over a large haystack.
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A man in a wide brim hat stands on top of a haystack. There is a hay derrick behind him.
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An unidentified individual stacks hay using a Mormon derrick at the Borah ranch.
"Stacking hay with the Derrick my father made from timber he cut up on Beecher Mt South of Home. Brush Creek, Colo." -- Alda Borah
