Do You Know...?

Do you know what this is?

Me neither. :)

But... I have learned what it does and it's pretty cool!  I didn't grow up on a farm, so these things are new for me. 
This is what that thing does....

Can you see?  It moves the hay up to the hayloft... not much physical effort required.  Genius really because I have seen Matt unload hay and stack it before... this is much easier for everyone!  One guy stands on the truck and literally dumps it off and the conveyor belt picks it up.  The oher guy stands in the loft and stacks, but it's not as much bending or heavy lifting as it could be. 

You might think that once it's up top someone would then have to drag it back down in order to feed horses... NOPE!... look at this...

Besides that being a sick horse Matt was working on... what else do you see? Check the righthand corner where the food is?  Do you see the holes above in the ceiling?  Yep... someone just walks around up top in the hayloft and drops down whatever amount that horse is supposed to eat.  Pretty easy!  And it keeps the barns clean bc you aren't losing pieces of hay as you carry it from stall to stall.

The farm we live on grows their own hay, cuts it, bails it, stores it and uses it.  Very efficient and pretty cool to watch (though I didn't get pics of every step).  Some people may not think so, but I do because I have never seen it :)  So there you go! 

**Sidenote: This horse seems to be doing better now, thanks to the fluids Matt gave it!