Square baling without chute?

Kickinbull · Aug 13, 2022

Evening, were square baling and dropping bales behind on Ground. To be picked up with hay loader. Is it necessary to have a chute on or can we do without?Thanks

MJMJ · Aug 13, 2022

I ve baled without for years. They drop a little further, thats about the only difference.

BonaparteSouth · Aug 13, 2022

if you mean a nh stack wagon you will need a quarter turn chute on baler to put bales on edge

Kickinbull · Aug 14, 2022

Its an antique hay loader.

rrlund · Aug 14, 2022

You need the flat short chute back to where it hinges.

Mike(NEOhio) · Aug 14, 2022

I take the second section off when I drop bales because the field is rough and the chute flops around so much. I can travel faster.

caterpillar guy · Aug 14, 2022

If you are talking about an old hay loader with a pickup and sticks you will not load hay bales with that it will either not work or tear the bales apart loading them if it doesn't break the sticks. It was intended to load loose hay from a windrow like you pick up with the baler pickup.

Hay hay hay · Aug 14, 2022

The bales come out of the baler flat on the ground...with or without a chute. All of the youtube videos I have seen of those old loaders that tow along beside a truck or wagon are designed to pickup a flat bale. Watch the videos..square bale loader.
You can see from the width of the pickup which way it is designed to raise the bale.

On the other hand, a New Holland bale wagon picked up bales on edge..so the baler needed a 1/4 turn chute.

Kickinbull · Aug 14, 2022

This is loader, Paste

Kickinbull · Aug 14, 2022

The bales load with strings up. What I want to know it does it make any difference in baler function it it has chute on back or not?

Hay hay hay · Aug 14, 2022

A baler functions exactly the same with or without a chute. The job of the chute is just to extend the reach of the baler and carry the bales back to the wagon. Without a chute the bale drops on the ground closer to the baler...with an extension chute it drops on the ground, or on the wagon about 4 feet further back.

I have never used a bale loader but from the videos, it picks the bales up off the ground and elevates them onto a wagon. Looking at your photos I think theat chute is pulled by a tractor, with a wagon behind it. That will be a long coupling, hard to turn in small fields.

495man · Aug 14, 2022

The extension/wagon loading chute was an option on some balers anyways, not needed.

My old MF manual shows long chute and wagon hitch as options.

Locally, I've never found one that didn't have wagon hitch and chute (or thrower)

gbs · Aug 14, 2022

hauled a lot of hay picked with one of those, worked best if bales were dropped flat, as for the chute it allows the bale to clear the press before being dropped, depending on what you're baling it may have no effect on the bales.

mschwartz · Aug 16, 2022

May not be required to get the job done but my experience has been that at least a short flat chute allows the bales to maintain their shape better. Coming straight from the bale chamber kinda lets gravity bend the bales as the baler end is still compressed vs with the chute on the bale is mostly released from chamber when it is allowed to drop. Pop up bale loaders work much better with square bales not horseshoe bales. Good luck, Mike

showcrop · Aug 16, 2022

My baler has a thrower, but it has a door that you open for when you want to drop them on the ground. There is no chute this way.

Hay hay hay · Aug 16, 2022

I agree. Bales need a little chute space after the chamber to flatten out.

560Dennis · Aug 17, 2022

I agreed

olgentdc · Aug 17, 2022

Never saw a hay loader such as that in Southern Ind , But I sure wish I knew where to find one ,,. // a short 30 inch chute on the end of the baler will keep the bales flat

Leroy · Aug 21, 2022

First section of chute was alwasy standard, section section to load wagons optional.

showcrop · Aug 21, 2022

(quoted from post at 07:25:03 08/16/22) I agree. Bales need a little chute space after the chamber to flatten out.

The bales in my baler are positively flat in the chamber. I can put a four foot level on it.

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