Most old hay rakes were pulled by a couple of horses and the driver had to manually pull this big old lever to raise the tongs and leave it all in large neat rows to be picked up and placed in a wagon. I was just sent a most wonderful photo of a family member riding a hay rake taken in 1918. It is being pulled by a car, which looks like one of the old bathtub roadsters of a make and model I do not recognize. Behind the car and hay rake is a loaded hay wagon pulled by two horses and with three other unidentified men standing by. The photo was taken on Brushfork, near Bluefield VA/WV. The elderly lady that sent the photo said it was on McCue's Farm. I could not get a good spelling on this. If anyone should know of this farm I would be very interested in learning it's history. The family member is George Washington Crabtree. He died a short time after the photo was taken during the big flu epidemic. Robert Crabtree