Early pioneers used scythes and sickles to cut the hay and then piled it up with wooden forks. In the 1940s came the twine, automatic tie baler which was pulled behind a tractor and produced a 60- to ...

DEER LODGE — The iconic beaverslide hay stacker was invented in 1908 in Montana's Big Hole Valley, not far from Missoula. Named after Beaverhead County in which the valley sits, they're so effective ...

Over time many methods have been used for making haystacks including the overshot stacker like the one demonstrated at Grant-Kohrs Ranch National Historic Site in Deer Lodge on Sunday afternoon. The ...

Farmers in Muskingum and surrounding counties are now into the haymaking season. You can see the modern equipment in the fields cutting, raking, baling and hauling the various sizes and shapes of ...