JD model 100 stack wagon ?

Mike M

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Local auction house has this sitting on their lot. Their website says it is a model 100 stack wagon. Never seen one before ? What are they used for ? If anyone is interested it is on the RES auction website and is sitting on their lot in Wooster Ohio. I know some of you like the older odd equipment.
 

There were 3 models of JD hay stack wagons. The stack wagon will make a stack of hay/fodder resembling a large loaf of bread. A Model 200 & mover that I sold new to my neighbor in the 70's has been sitting idle due to rd balers being introduced.
 
I remember there being a stacker in our area during the 70's, think it was a John Deere but don't recall any model number. About the time the farms started getting larger.
 
This was Deere's copy of the Hesston StakHand loose hay stack wagons. The hay was blown into the wagon and occasionally the top was hydraulically lowered to compress the load. When the stack was complete a chain conveyor pushed it out the back. The largest models made stacks up to 6 tons. They were most common in dry regions - I see lots of the Hesston versions setting around in western Kansas and eastern Colorado. Up until maybe 20 years ago you still saw some being used but it's been a long time since I've seen one in operation. In addition to hay they were also commonly used for stover collection.
 
As the Hesston StackHand machine was going over pretty well, JD decided to explore the stack wagon business. I was doing some of the early research, testing and design of the windrow pick-up mechanism. We built a stationary half-width the test stand. The windrow was to be conveyed into it. Basically the pick up unit is a transverse-flow fan. They're tricky, especially the scroll housing around the rotor. When we first started up our JD copy of the Hesston machine it moved air the wrong direction. It sucked air in at the top of the spout and discharged it at the floor. As the Farm Progress show was coming up, I took along my camera & tape measure and at the show slid on my back under the pick-up unit of a Hesston machine, took some photos and measurements. Then, when back at the JD test stand, we made some simple changes and then the thing moved air the desired direction! That story needed telling. Even at JD, engineering wasn't, isn't, all theoretical design!!!
 
please tell me more about the development of the deere stack wagons!
i ve always been very interested in them!

thank you
 
I can't add a whole lot more. Obviously we solved the feeding and blowing problem. They started production at Ottumwa, then production was moved to Des Moines. I don't know why, but maybe that was to make room at the Ottumwa Works to build large round balers, which killed the StackWagon before long. I do recall a bit of a problem when we were running the test stand and unbeknownst to us, there was a skunk in the windrow we were conveying in to the machine. All that must have happened around 1970. We wee using a stationary test stand 'cause it was easier to get high speed movies through windows in the stationary test stand that on a machine bouncing through the field. The JD StackWagons & Hesston StackHands were pretty successful in the high plaines states for a short time. Weren't the Deere models the 100, 200 and 300?
 
I had a new one in the early70s did a lot of custom work. I got $30 a stack and could make 50 per day so it paid pretty well at that time.We had a JD mover that worked well and actually also had a proto type
that would move two The round balers became popular and stackers became obsolete.They were hard on your neck,
 
Kinda like when the ih engineer went to deere took measurements and pictures of a deere corn head took it back to ih and built an exact copy of the deere corn head
 
Yes, except in that situation it cost IHC their Saltillo, Mexico factory to settle the lawsuit Deere filed against IHC
 
Bet so. As I recall, as with lots of hay packaging machines, uniform filling of the wagon was necessary to get a good looking stack. There's only so much the wagon's compressing top could do.
 
There was a procedure to getting each layer right.A JD rep actually came out and took some pictures and gave me some tips.I would compress it more than required and was pretty proud of how nice they looked.Heavy winds could be your enemy.THe 100 made a smaller stack but worked the same.The quality of feed was excellent if put up right.WE usually ground ours or used a grapple to feed.THe problem is unless you had a mover they couldnt be moved.Low cost to operate and still know of a few in use.Ours had a power tail gate that helped unload.Other problem they were big to store and We always shedded ours.I think I had the only one in our county.
 

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