some kind of hay elevator

cdv

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went to look at a hay elevator man passed away so cant ask any questions it attaches to the side of the wagon some how its ground drive lift the bales up form the field I guess anyone familiar with this elevator or have any information on it thanks cdv
 
Never used one,we always baled on the wagon or picked them off the ground,but there were some in the neighborhood. They were just called bale loaders.
 
They go way back.

Depending where you live, there were a lot of regional companies that made them over the years.

I don't think I've ever seen one in person, not common locally, but they were very popular in other areas.

I believe one company still makes them today, I just can't find the web site now.

Paul
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We used one as kids for one year only. Cant remember why Dad canned it but we never used it again. It may still be in the trees at my brothers place.
 
Lots of people that had those old Allis Chalmers small round balers had them. Seen many makes over the the years and a few homemade. Some attached to the side like the picture posted, others were pulled between the tractor and wagon.
 
Ah, the FUN of growing up handling "idiot cubes"!

Here's a photo of my New Holland bale loader next to a "Minnesota" (prison-built) loose hay loader. I suppose 'bout a hundred other outfits built them, as well.

There's a grader blade laying across the frame of the bale loader... we would bolt that to the truck frame below the grainbox with it sticking out the LH side to hitch the bale loader to. When the box was full (tailgate removed) we'd pull the pin on the loader hitch, and drive the truck home and raise the hoist and dump the bales at the elevator to the mow. We only used it at small out-of-they-way hayfields with a couple of hundred bales.



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Hey, paul...this is the second one my Dad built...first one mounted on the WC, bale went under the left axle before entering the pto operated loader. This one was ground driven...old car axle/tranny drive. That"s me in the background...about 1958?
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most popular ones around here were made by a company called Kneib. Dad bought 1 new after I went to service, I never seen it used. By the time I got home he had a big baler.
 

Growing up, my neighbor had a Roto Baler and a wheel bale loader like the one in this photo.

It's still sitting in the old pasture at their farm.

There was another "Ferris" type where the wheel was straight up and down, instead of being tilted like this one.

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We had two side hay loaders like that. I think we could normally load about 6 bales high max on our flatbed truck. We converted one to use a B&amp;S engine so it would lift bales even if you were not moving. Keep the bearings greased and keep spare chain links on hand. They usually tie to the truck with two diagonal bars.

We had several pieces of farm equipment that were driven by auto rear ends like that. Also had a PTO driven post hole digger that used an auto differential on top to turn the auger.
 
I have one out back. Made by IH(has deacls/sn plate) Have never used it. Hope I never have too!LOL
 
When we bought our own baler we went to a square baler.You can't pull a wagon and load from a AC Roto Baler.
 

Here's a fun video of a hay loader in action, (modified to use an engine instead of wheel driven). About 40 seconds in you can see what happens with a dry loose bale. Down flat you had to be careful to flip it just right so the wires did not get caught.

https://vimeo.com/12458274
 
I think some were either in Sears or Wards farm catalog. I always thought that they looked very unhandy as you would have to walk on top of the load at all times. I sure would not want to walk on a moving pile of bales. Now the ones that hooked to a tractor and lifted the bales to front and you could walk on a solid floor and stack the bales the same as if you were stacking behind the baler would be OK if you did not have a wagon chute on the baler like the early john Deere 116 sidewinder balers were. Friend has one of those setting out back, bought just to have, don't know make.
 
I had one of those. More or less worked when it was working. Left it behind when I moved and bought a Henry bale loader. Havnt used it yet, but dad bought uncles at his sale and we used it a lot.
 

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