Nh bale wagons

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My dad and I had a NH 1012 bale wagon. It held 56 bales plus a couple extra. This model could single bale unload or dump. One thing that you should keep in mind is the machine still needs a person to guide the system a bit when it is unloading. The NH bale wagon were seen alot in southeastern Minnesota but unfortunately many of the smaller diary farms have gone away. At our farm auction in 1995 our twenty year old machine, always stored in the shed, went for $4500. They were are aand still are a great way of handeling bales of hay! Good luck!

To answer the earlier post a 1034 does single unload to an elevator. One reason I got a 1034 instead of a 1033. Wish I had the 1033, way faster to dump and run. About 12 of us right in this area have either 1033's, 1034's, or the newer 1037's.

how about telling me how it works. I'm just west of Ashland in Greenup county. Seems as if most folks have gone to rolling their hay, then again, this isn't horse country and we all know a horse, that noble animal, couldn't possibly eat rolled hay. HAR!

Know that area well, I used to be County Agent in Carter County back in '91-'94.

Here it is; but it's long:

Based on 1034 to current production (mine is about a '76 vintage). I use a 336 Deere baler with a 1/4 turn chute to drop the bales on edge. Make 5 rounds around the field early and roll and wrap for baleage. Then I can cut in straight lines (makes it a lot easier, real bugger to turn a lot with these things).

Lift chain picks up bales and puts on 1st table, conveyer chain shoves it over, when bale #3 gets on the first table it causes bale #1 to push a lever. This trips the table setting 3 bales on table 2. Each sucessive trip of 1st table pushes bales back on 2nd table. When you get 5 runs of 3 on 2nd table it trips stacking in load rack (against receeding forks). When you get 7 runs in load rack back into barn and load rack tips to verticle. Push off feet push you off the stack. Then forks retract to home and back to stacking. All self contained hydraulics, only 4 non hydraulic moving parts. At 1 (or more levels you want a tie tier so the stack doesnt split, pull a lever and it does it)

I use a 1410 Case/DB and leave it hooked all season. Capacity is 105 bales, the way I run my ties I get 99 per load. Takes 17 minutes on level ground to load. Rolling ground usually me about 30 mins per load. Takes me longer to drive to the barns and back the beast in than load. When you dump you have a nice neat rick of hay. If I start raking at 10, bale and then stack I can have 600 or so in the barn by dark. If I can get my dad to bale for me I can do 1200 a day easy. Have used lights and put 1800 in.

Barns were simple, I cut out the crossties in my tobacco barn driveways (need 12.5' verticle to dump). I get help early in the am or late to rick the hay in the sheds of the barn (not wide enough). My drive ways are 14'w, sheds 12'w center of posts and I have to have 12'4" w to get in. Also built a quick, cheap shed on one barn and planning more. Set 2 rows of cedar posts on 14' ctrs. Tacked up a plate and put up rafters. 72' long, 28' deep, and 13' on the low eve, 16.5 on the high. Got under $3000 in it including labor.

thanks so much for that informative explanation. carter co. agent huh?! I live at Oldtown and if I ain't mistaken Kelly Hall.....don't know her married name, later became agent in Carter county. I went to school with her older sisters. Carol Ann runs the REA in Grayson and Sherry Rae has some kind of government agency job as well. I put the Subway in Grayson circa '92.

If have any groundhogs and coyotes needin' killin', I'd sure like to come help you do it sometime.

keep your eyes peeled down in that country for a hand cranked JD corn sheller. been looking for one a long time but they weigh to much to have shipped, going to have to find one close enough to drive and pick up.

drop me a email at: Jump_trap at msn dot com.

bailey is as windy as a sack full of.....well, you know and as long as the flies weren't too bad, he never bothered to swat at them too often.