Thinking or streamlining

SVcummins

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My little bale process even further next year . The neighbor use to put up all of his little bales with a farmhand f10 mounted on a reversed two ton truck and a loose hay sweep. I?m thinking of getting a loose hay fork and putting sides on my two ton truck dump the bales in and then head to the house and dump the bales off then I can stack them as I get time .
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My buddy who does a lot of his hay by himself got a grapple accumulator last year and mounted it on a loader. It enables him to stack loads on hay wagons from the tractor seat. So with two or three wagons spotted in a field he can get a lot picked up pretty quickly.
 
Prior to Scott passing away in early 2019, North Texas Hay put up many thousands of bales a year with 2 people. Check their site for you tube videos if they are still up from prior to 2019. They posted very little in 2019 and nothing since August.
 
Meyers bale sweep.Used one once,on an M. Neighbor had one on a reversed truck when I was a kid.Made huge stacks in the middle of big hay fields. Dad and I used to manhandle the bales into place after they were dropped off. They used to be popular,haven't seen one in years. Thought they'd all been cut up.The '8 pcak' grapple is still used occationally. Mostly for loading/unloading trucks. The NewHolland stack wagons have pretty much killed other types pf small bale handleing.
 
I think it sounds easier than it will be. for one thing I think you will have a real mess where you dump the bales and trying to stack them. Lots of broken and not nice bales to stack. I worked for a guy who used a fork like that mounted on a truck frame to load bales but we hauled hay that was "sledded" behind the baer in regular piles that would stack well on a truck and we unloaded by hand. The hay grapples can make a neat stack on a truck but you have to have the trailer behind your baler
 


You can try it but you want to make sure you have good, tight sturdy bales. The not so tight bales you get used to babying when you hand load a wagon are not the bales you want when you're dumping them a couple times.
 

My bales don't just get dumped into truck body they fly fifteen feet up into the air and twenty feet to the back of the wagon and they very rarely bend or break.
 
I?m trying to get down to one man bale handling. Can?t depend on anybody showing uP or waiting to actually work. I can?t see it being any harder on the bales than being shot out of a bale thrower and then dumped out of a wagon . I have a bale loader that works great but it still takes to people which makes it a 2 man job three or four but still need someone else.
 
I guess I?m missing something but a thrower sure looks awful hard on the bales to me? I?m hoping to only do a few hundred little bales next year and the rest is 2x3 so we?ll see what happens I guess . Hate to not use the bale loader Because it works so nice but it doesn?t work with out someone stacking
Bale thrower and wagon
 
I know where the 8 pack fork is and there also used to be the accumulator for behind the baler but the guy scrapped the accumulator but kept the fork
 
I?ve looked at those they would definitely be the way
to go but I?m hoping to get away from most the little
bales
 
A new Holland stack wagon is what I?d really like to find but then I?d have to find a fatter wallet
 
Their operation could easily be done with one person. It is a husband and wife and 2 people just gives them less chance of it being rained on. When they cut a field you're talking a couple of thousand bales. They rake bale and accumulate in one pass and pick up with a grapple. Their equipment might give you some ideas.
 
This is a Rocky Mountain bale sweep touted as the latest and greatest buy also 4000.00$ I?ll have to search Myers and see if anything comes up
 
I guess I am just a bit more into doing it myself, I load out 800 to 1500 like this all alone every year,, I used to use a NH balewagon and pickup and stack/deliver 120,000-180,000 a year before I went to round bales so to me even 1500 is a cake walk,, but then I do all my work alone and have for many decades. When I deliver these to the local coop I throw them all off to the ones on the ground,, takes three of them in their 20's to keep up, not bad for someone three times their age

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I did all mine with bale basket wagons and grapple. then went to all grapple accumulator set up. I deliver using converted Hesston no 10stack mover. made pallet fit on it loaded 75 bales on it took to stores raised it up conveyed all to ground. went home
 
That?s pretty impressive will that for Lay them up there like that or do you have to hand stack them ? There?s no doubt you can outwork those kids my grandpa use to say these young kids sure aren?t made of very good glue
 

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