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22. Mormon Stacker
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"Ready to stack hay on the Carl Forster ranch on Sheephorn Creek in 1906. Leonard Ambos is on the slip. Notice the guy ropes on the Mormon Stacker. Without them these stackers could easily upset and did once in a while. The buildings seen among the trees on the left are on the Clarence Rundell ranch." -- McCoy Memoirs p.318
[Title supplied from catalog prepared by the Eagle County Historical Society.]
24. Feeding cattle
25. Haas Barn
27. Feeding horses
30. Rundell ranch
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"Stacking alfalfa hay with a Mormon stacker on the Conger Mesa Schrupp ranch in 1912. In those days, after hay was cut and raked it was first put in shocks and when ready to be stacked it was loaded on slips or wagons with a fork after hay slings had been placed on the bed of the slip or wagon. Arriving at the stack yard, the stacker, operated by the same horses that brought in the load, picks up the sling load of hay, raises and swings it around...
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Stacking hay using a horse team and a Mormon derrick on the J over J Ranch (now the 4 Eagle Ranch) north of Wolcott, Colorado. The Ranch was originally homesteaded by John Welsh and later run by his son-in-law, Charles Hartman. Tractors were never used on the ranch before it left the family in 1930.
34. Hayers with team
36. Men in hay field
39. Newell Buffehr
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Newell Buffehr confronting a horse team pulling a hay wagon on the Buffehr ranch. Behind them, a man is standing on a haystack.
Newell was cited as one of six landowners in the Gore Creek Valley in 1959 by Dick Hauserman [Inventors of Vail p.7]: "John Hanson, Gust Kaihtipes, Pete Katsos, Henry Anholtz, Newell Buffehr, and Jay Pulis."
Newell and his wife Mary moved to Denver for Mary's health. She died in 1962.