Hay stack and automobile of peach pickers, Delta County, Colorado (LOC)A literal "spare tire" there is no wheel. Mt. Lambert Guess they carried tyre irons then as well as a lug wrench. Remember in Blazing Saddles when Slim Pickens needed all those dimes? This reminds me of that. Great cars 
Lee, Russell,, 1903-, photographer.
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Hay stack and automobile of peach pickers, Delta County, Colorado 1940 1 slide : color. Notes: Title from FSA or OWI agency caption. Transfer from U.S. Office of War Information, 1944. Subjects: Automobiles Hay United States--Colorado--Delta County Format: Slides--Color Rights Info: No known restrictions on publication. Repository: Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division, Washington, D.C. 20540 USA, hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.print Part Of: Farm Security Administration - Office of War Information Collection 11671-17 (DLC) 93845501 General information about the FSA/OWI Color Photographs is available at hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.fsac Persistent URL: hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/fsac.1a34202 Call Number: LC-USF35-254 Comments
Edwin's Paint Bucket says:It is a great place to get naughty.
Prairie Bluestem says:The ladder may still be in place from the
process of making the haystack. A well-made,
evenly shaped haystack, with the hay firmly
packed into place from the ground up, could
withstand most winds without damage. 
perfgeek says:And here I thought they were putting the
finishing touches on the country drive-in
theater :)
Prairie Bluestem says:I'm a generation younger than this photo, but
I grew up on a ranch in northern Nebraska
where we made haystacks. The haystacks were
kept outside, and they were shaped to shed
water. If they were used during the first
winter after they were made, rotting of the
hay from moisture was minimal. It wouldn't
have been practical to keep all the hay
inside because such a great quantity of hay
was harvested each year to see the cattle
through the long winter. I think this was
probably true in 1940 in Colorado also.
Also, keep in mind that the annual rainfall
isn't that much in Colorado. The main reason
to keep hay inside is to avoid water damage.
Peter Baer
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This looks a lot like the haystacks my
father made when I was a kid. He had a large
rectangular form on wheels that resembled a
large cage with vertical bars on the side
where the entire back section butterflied
open to allow pulling the form away once the
hay was stacked inside - leaving a nice
rectangular stack that very much resembles
the one in this photo.
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says:
Why would you want to climb way up on that bail of hay? And couldn't that be a bad place to park if a strong wind came from the opposite direction?
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