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Kris Rutko

12-11-2005 04:34:43




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I"m looking for a company that would install a small square bale handling elevator system in my barn. I had seen one in a German brochure years ago. It was more like a delivery system made up of skeleton elevators. You could direct the bales to whatever bay you were filling. There was a permanant horizontal conveyor mounted in the peak of the barn, fed by the elevator from the ground. Is anybody familiar with this system?

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Kris Rutko

12-12-2005 14:22:44




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 Thanks guys in reply to Kris Rutko, 12-11-2005 04:34:43  
Thanks for writing about these conveyor systems. I found that Roth Inc. in Loyal WI makes the conveyors and offers a complete line of accessories for them. The only question I have for those of you who have used the horizontal conveyor...When the bales drop from way way up in the peak to the floor, doesn"t that deform them and break the strings?



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JMS/MN

12-12-2005 16:49:19




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 Re: Thanks guys in reply to Kris Rutko, 12-12-2005 14:22:44  
No. Never stacked anything until the barn was almost full. Then leveled off and stacked the peak.



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JFM-Nv

12-12-2005 10:49:25




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 Re: small square bale handling systems in reply to Kris Rutko, 12-11-2005 04:34:43  
Have used a system in my barn for years. Brand name is Snowco.



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JMS/MN

12-12-2005 16:55:34




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 Re: small square bale handling systems in reply to JFM-Nv, 12-12-2005 10:49:25  
Snowco is a good example of why I build my own stuff. Bought a used Snowco conveyor many years ago, had to rebuild each end to put decent bearings and drive/driven system on. Their steel stock reminded me of Burger King bacon- didn't know you could slice anything that thin and still have two sides to it. Their augers are the same. Junk!.



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JMS/MN

12-12-2005 09:09:17




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 Re: small square bale handling systems in reply to Kris Rutko, 12-11-2005 04:34:43  
Used to be a number of different companies making them- especially in dairy states. Usually made with light steel tubing. I made mine out of angle iron, and had a tip-off that slid along the top rail, locked in place anywhere along the length of the conveyor. Chain ran through the tip-off, between two quarter by four inch plates about three feet long, either of which could be elevated enough on the far end to tip the bale to the other side of the conveyor.

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RussUPMI

12-11-2005 14:45:14




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 Re: small square bale handling systems in reply to Kris Rutko, 12-11-2005 04:34:43  
See www.loyal-roth.com/Bale_Handling4.html



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chris in md

12-11-2005 11:10:05




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 Re: small square bale handling systems in reply to Kris Rutko, 12-11-2005 04:34:43  
I stacked bales in a dairy barn for years that had a long horizontal bale carrier in the peak of the barn. We aimed the elevator from the ground to the end of this thing and switched 'em both on. The horizontal carrier had a plate that slid up and down the length of the carrier that kicked the bales off, it had a rope tied onto it and you could even switch what side they fell off. It worked fairly well, only the barn carrier was slower than the ground elevator, had to space the bales out coming off the wagon.
-Chris

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barnrat

12-11-2005 07:27:17




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 Re: small square bale handling systems in reply to Kris Rutko, 12-11-2005 04:34:43  
My dad has one in the dairy barn, he dosn't use it any more most people around here don't even touch small squares any more. That bale mover had an Allied vertical section that took the bales into the mow of our 200x40 arched roof barn. Inside was a pipe bale conveyor that went the entire length or the barn in two sections. There was a tripper that dumped the bales off the conveyer that could be moved via a rope a pully system outside by where you unloaded the wagon. The only time you had to climb up onto the conveyor was when you moved the tripper from one section to the other or if you wanted to change the side the bales came off of. We always stacked up to the elevator so getting to it was never a problem. I cant remember the brand name of the conveyor but it was red, so I'm thinking Starline.

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Leroy

12-11-2005 06:52:38




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 Re: small square bale handling systems in reply to Kris Rutko, 12-11-2005 04:34:43  
I think years ago John Deere and TSC sold those outfits along with other companys. A neighbor has the vertical part on his barn, not sure what he has inside but it hasn't been used for a many a year, I think Meyer also made a system. On some instead of the vertical elevator part you just used your standard bale elevator set up to lign up with the conveyer in the barn as that was a lot cheaper way to go and it worked better if you had the distance to set up your elevator but if you were limited in area to work then you bought the vertical part. I don't know if any companys still make a portable pipe bar elevator ( the hay dealers around here still use them to load their trucks if having to load from ground) but using even several of those if you could not buy enough to make as long as you need you could design and make yourself a system that would work, the big drawback in the factory made system there was no provision to get to the piece that would kick the bale off the side without having to be able to set a lader up to do the change. It should be possible to design a system that would use ropes to work that from the ground.

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Bob Philipp

12-11-2005 06:09:24




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 Re: small square bale handling systems in reply to Kris Rutko, 12-11-2005 04:34:43  
I have a New Holland one I would sell it is 65' long and is dismantled setting in the barn on a storage area.

Thanks Bob

Where are you located, I'm in NE Iowa



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Coloken

12-11-2005 06:08:15




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 Re: small square bale handling systems in reply to Kris Rutko, 12-11-2005 04:34:43  
Would that be the same German company that built the baggage system for the Denver airport? Have a good morning..Kennyp



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Bill from MA

12-14-2005 13:34:00




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 Re: small square bale handling systems in reply to Coloken, 12-11-2005 06:08:15  
Probably because they forgot that suitcases often have wheels.



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