Going to restore this Meyers OK Unloader I picked up yesterday

[coolmercury]

Bought this unloader (hay trolley and hooks) at an auction yesterday.  Kind of always wanted one, but prices were always too high for me.  This one also came with the hooks which are very rare including the chains and the attaching mechanism/tripping mechanism. It is locked up in various places (rusted, not patina) but is undamaged (hope I'm successful in that area).  Usually the wheels are what is damaged.  In the olden days this trolley ran on a track in the top of a barn that had a 4 to 6 foot overhang at one end and a large door----the track ran out to the end of the overhang.  The hooks were dropped down and attached to a load of loose hay and hoisted up to the door and then pulled back into the barn and tripped.  Will post as I progress on this project.

[goodfellow]

Great project -- do you have a line setup to use it, or is it just for decoration?

[coolmercury]

Plan to build a short 3 foot track and install it along one wall of my shop.

[stokester]

Those are so cool.  I remember helping my grandfather bail hay and using one or something similar.  We would pull the wagon in front of the barn and lower the hooks into the bails and then raise them into the haymow where they were then released and the bails dropped to us to stack.

[coolmercury]

Making progress, got all of the wheels loose and turning as well as the pulleys.  Last was the tripping mechanism and it came loose today.  Now to put it into my blast cabinet and start getting the main rust off.

[Uncle Buck]

That is going to look cool!