My friend Pat Chase: Haying with horses

I thought I'd do some bragging on my friend Pat.  Pat Chase recently acquired a second team of horses, and with them, he's really taken to hay with them.

Pat Chase's 4-up raking hay!

Pat uses his horses 4 abreast to pull 2 ground driven side delivery hay rakes.  It's a really sweet rig and it works great.  The horses are hooked to a forecart, and then off the back of the forecart is a big spreader bar with the 2 side delivery rakes on either side.  This rakes all the hay towards the center for one nice windrow.

Here is a video of Pat's horses in work:

http://youtu.be/Ot0r7IVbL6A


Pat generated some interest as people saw him raking his hay like this, and he ended up getting an article written on him.  Click on the link below to read all about it.  There's a lot of great pictures taken in this article:

Click here for the article

This weekend Pat is baling another 6 acres.  He'll be using the horses to rake it all.  It's an open event for anyone who may like to see this in action.

Great job Pat!  I'm completely proud of what you're doing.  Definitely glad to have you as a friend and a fellow teamster!