Another kind of RotoBale loader

lfnel

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Pretty simple, huh?
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Actually it looks kind of complicated to me. It looks like there must be a lot of articulation there somewhere, but I can't see just what it does!
 
Here's how to works. Patents written by lawyers make things sound complicated, but they're thorough.

https://www.freepatentsonline.com/2954886.pdf

Bales were dropped into a triangular shaped hayrack and manually arranged (standing on end) by hand a couple of times while filling the rack. When filled with one layer of bales, the rack was backed up against the end of the stack, then tilted back and upward by a hydraulic cylinder under the rack, making a long, triangular-shaped stack of bales. For being 60 years ago, this was a big saver of manual labor.

Invented, patented and used by my brother. He made and sold some.
 
Digging deeper in memory, as I recall the trouble with the Snowco and the little round AC RotoBales was that those bales laid crosswise of the windrow. If they had laid there very long and grown to the ground, the Snowco wouldn't turn them 90 degrees to orient them so that it could handle them.
 

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