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Allan in NE

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• Jul 17, 2008

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Rained out? Rained out you say?

Can't ever remember that happening in this next of the woods. Darned tractor was throwin' mud like crazy; and that was on the road!

Must be that darned Al Gore's fault. :>)

Allan

 

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Lanse

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• Jul 17, 2008

• #1

Yep, looks like warming globes will do that to ya

 

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keh

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• Jul 17, 2008

• #1

You are getting a head start on that 6 inches of rain for the second alfalfa crop.

KEH

 

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IaGary

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• Jul 17, 2008

• #1

Thats why you put them duals on to haul hay.

So you wouldn't get stuck in the mud.

Ain't them cabs nice when you get caught in one of those rains??? ~})

Gary

 

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Anonymous-0

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• Jul 17, 2008

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And here you thought you were done haying! I can hear that hay growing clear out here on the edge of the cliff. Better sharpen those sickle sections again and order some more diesel cause you are not done haying!! Gonna need some more cows or increase their ration to use all that up. What is this world coming to when it rains in Chadron Ne. the middle of July?? Gonna have any wheat straw for sale ? we sure could use some of that here. Migraine

 

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JBMac

Member

• Jul 17, 2008

• #1

Allan,

Pardon my ignorance, I've been on farms for all my 31 years in N FLa/ S Ga, What the heck kinda trailer is that behind your tractor with the PTO shaft?

John

 

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Leland

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• Jul 17, 2008

• #1

Thats a self loading and unloading bale toter /

 

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Anonymous-0

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• Jul 17, 2008

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Appears to have solved the 4:45 a.m. and the humidity problem. Enjoy the rest, it starts all over when the rain stops.

 

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Allan in NE

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• Jul 18, 2008

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It is an old Lehmann stack mover. Works for my purposes to haul a lot of hay or straw in from the fields.

My neighbor routinely hauls 9 ton on his. That makes me a little nervous tho, so I limit mine to 8 of the bigger bales; 11 of the smaller ones.

Allan

 

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Anonymous-0

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• Jul 18, 2008

• #1

Wow, a picture of your mud.

 

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robersw

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• Jul 18, 2008

• #1

That is an interesting trailer. How much does one of those run$$$?

The other post said it was self-loading/unloading, how does it self load? Or do you have another tractor loading them on the back and the pto pulls the bales forward? I would love to see one of those up close.
Scott

 

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Allan in NE

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• Jul 18, 2008

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They are just about a "give-away" implement anymore. Out of "fashion" ya know. I gave $2500 for this one off of the dealer's lot. Me thinks, it was about $2500 more than he had in it. :>)

The rails each have a separate roller chain and the direction is changed via a hydraulic controlled gearbox running off of the PTO.

Have the chains moving forward, tip the bed up and just back under the stack. Those bales/the stack just crawl right up on the trailer. Then, let the bed down and away ya go. :>)

Allan

 

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JBMac

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• Jul 18, 2008

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Thanks for the education, I gotta get me one of those, that could save me some time!

 

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robersw

Member

• Jul 18, 2008

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That sounds like it has a lot of potential for us. I briefly looked on the net earlier and couldn't find one, I will look more later.

 

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Bret4207

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• Jul 18, 2008

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Welcome to the North East!

 

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El Toro

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• Jul 18, 2008

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Nice to have the right implements when handling those big bales. Hal

 

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matt a

Member

• Jul 18, 2008

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we should start trading the midle east fresh water for oil now

 

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cadet trooper

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• Jul 18, 2008

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Looks similar to the Hesston Stackmover and Allen, it sure makes haying more tolerable as WE get older to make hay from an air conditioned cab sure beats standing behind a bale chute in that blazing sun.

 

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T_Bone

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• Jul 18, 2008

• #1

Hi Scott,

They make a simular truck for loading/unloading 33000lb cotton modules(bales) in a van body for hauling to the gin. Works just like what the hay loader trailer does.

They off load the combined cotton into a modual builder (a open top & bottom four sided solid frame with a hydraulic tamping shoe to compress the cotton), hydraulic lower the wheels to the ground, then they open the rear doors and a net is drawn over the modual as the modual builder is pulled away from the modual, doors shut, then the modual builder is pulled approx 100ft ahead to build the next modual, raise the wheels, and your ready for another load of cotton.

After the cotton goes thru the gin and graded for quality, then it's baled in 500lb bales ready for sale. Only at this stage is the cotton called a bale of cotton as I was informed, then I was called a "green horn".

T_Bone