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Stacking Bales on Pallets?

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Bill

01-06-2004 18:22:49




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Anyone ever used pallets to stack their square bales on - so as not to have to re-handle the bales? For example, when towing a trailer, using pallets for the floor, then moving the bales with a loader off the trailer to storage vs handling them one by one. Or on a much smaller scale, skidding a pallet behind the baler and dropping it in the field, to be picked-up later with a 3 point mounted forks?

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Bill

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Hugh MacKay

01-08-2004 06:53:01




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 Re: Stacking Bales on Pallets? in reply to Bill, 01-06-2004 18:22:49  
Bill: Dollars, dollars dollars. A local cabbage grower once told me there is more money in the pallet trade than the cabbage that goes on them.



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John in IN

01-07-2004 16:06:42




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 Re: Stacking Bales on Pallets? in reply to Bill, 01-06-2004 18:22:49  
About 20years ago I read in a farm magazine about a fellow who handled his hay on large custom made pallets. He was a commmercial grower. Would be interesting to know the out come now. It has been done.



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Unimog

01-07-2004 09:16:47




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 Re: Stacking Bales on Pallets? in reply to Bill, 01-06-2004 18:22:49  
A fellow near me built pallets 8x12 same as his
truck bed. They load in the field 50 or 75 bales
per and stack in the barn with a Michigan loader
and long forks. He says it works out well as his
customers buy in those count loads. He just loads
and goes from the barn and returns with empty
pallet. I don't think it would work well unless
the pallets were large in size to carry enough
bales.

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Mark

01-07-2004 06:35:47




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 Re: Stacking Bales on Pallets? in reply to Bill, 01-06-2004 18:22:49  
DO you know what a cople of hundred pallets cost!!



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paul

01-06-2004 21:04:49




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 Re: Stacking Bales on Pallets? in reply to Bill, 01-06-2004 18:22:49  
It doesn't work as well in practice as it looks on paper. If you get into a volume of hay, you are looking at a grapple fork on the loader & accumulator on the baler to accomplish that type of system.

A typical pallet size is too small to move & stack enough hay to make it work out, can't stack high enough without it tipping all over & you will be restacking the pallets 3 times over, might as well just stack it by hand in the first place & eliminate the mouse & rat runs.

--->Paul

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Eric

01-06-2004 20:40:16




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 Re: Stacking Bales on Pallets? in reply to Bill, 01-06-2004 18:22:49  
I can load, move, unload and stack 5 pallet loads worth of hay on a rack, in less storage space, in the time you fool around with stacking and moving around 1 pallet of hay with a tractor, requiring additional storage space, and a lot of dinking around. Now if you are talking about moving it around at the feed store, a pallet is probably the way to go.



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kyhayman

01-06-2004 20:04:25




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 Re: Stacking Bales on Pallets? in reply to Bill, 01-06-2004 18:22:49  
Local Southern States Co-op buys from me and that's what they have me unload onto. Then they move them with the fork lift.



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steve

01-06-2004 18:37:19




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 Re: Stacking Bales on Pallets? in reply to Bill, 01-06-2004 18:22:49  
i have stacked it in the barn that way the first year i had the barn built ,but never to transport or handle ....only problem is the mice love to nest under it . so the following year that was removed .



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