Re: Hay stacker I never saw before.

Had to have been down in the sandhills where the ranchers are still really big on loose hay.

Haybusters used to be all the rage until the round balers came out. This was about the same time that Hesston came out with those "bread loaf" stackers. Late 60s or early 70s.

The guy running the Haybuster really had to be on his toes tho, because if he didn"t get the stack compressed enough in the center and didn"t build the "roof" of the stack right, the center portion of the stack would "dimple in" with time and leave a depresion in the center of the stack.

Snow and rainwater would then collect in the center and you eastern guys know how moisture can rot hay.

Another one of those things. They used to be everywhere around here and now I can"t even find a darned picture of one. :>(

Allan

Trouble with the those types of machines, not only do you have to have the stacker, but you need a way to move the stacks too. Hesston had a different mover for every sized stacker they sold.

A friend of mine had one of the big 60A loafers for sale. Think he was asking $400 maybe?

Anyway, no takers I guess, 'cause the last time I saw it, they had it tore down in his yard and was making a trailer out of it.

The darned round balers just knocked everybody in the hay-machinery business in the head. :>)

Allan

My brother has a Hesston 30, 30A, two movers and a feeder attatchment laying around now that he went to round bales. I got the Cherry on that Hesston 30 stacker in 1972. You wouldn't believe the lashup feeding rig of a 3000 Ford with a Farmhand PTO hyd pump, F11 hyd reservoir, Gresen twin spool valve on the toungue of the Hesston mover and two really nice pitchforks to feed the hay off with. That was before we got the feeder and hooked it all up to a 1086. Had an old Combine gravity grain tank to feed barley cake mounted on the toungue of that rig.

Or just feed them where they set?

Gary