Baling Hay Long Play - MF 1105 and JD 348 Baler

Happy Thanksgiving everyone!

If your not into football on Thanksgiving (or even if you are), the link is to a video of us baling hay this past summer with the Massey Ferguson 1105, John Deere 348 baler with pan kicker.
Baling Hay Long Play

Its Great to see a baler running Full, Doing a bang up job on the bale quality!! We just do not see kickers out here,, I Enjoyed watching your setup working,, my cousin has a 327 JD baler after I adjusted the missing issue when he got it it flat out ties and bales,, my cousin in a heck of a baler guy as far as running them and makes the Case 730 dsl i sold him smoke a bit on every stroke while Shucking out bales Thanks for sharing the vid
cnt

I'd much rather watch that all day over any ball game!

Hi Bill, it’s always nice to watch a baking video especially if there’s an MF involved. The bale kickers never caught on in the U.K., in fact I don’t think that I have ever seen one here. The popular methods over here were lift each bale by hand and pike onto a flat-bed trailer with someone stacking, then came a towed sledge that could be tripped to drop 8 or 10 bales in random order for hand loading onto a trailer or stacked into 6s or 7s for a squeeze type grab commonly called a Perry loader. Flat-8 grabs and sledges then came along and made it easier. One of the conveyor types and similar to one seen on a US video had a largely enclosed trailer and an elevator attached to the trailer. The elevator followed the line of bales and dropped them into the trailer. A rare sight over here was the New Holland ‘merry go round’ but that was really limited to larger farms and was problematic.
On our 10 acres we had a 16 bale squeeze made by Browns. Bales were stacked into two blocks of 8 or 9 and could be picked up independently. It was a great system for us as I could drop 16 bales at the foot of the elevator, the person loading the elevator would not be under pressure to move the 16 quickly and would have a few minutes breather before I brought the next load. This works fine if the barn is in the same field or very close.
DavidP, South Wales

What is the water tank for on the baler?

i just wouldn't want to be part of the team, to stack them up back home,that's a eating fool!

Could be used for adding innoculant to the hay or an acid preservative, so hay can be baled at a higher moisture level and less likely to spoil.

Ben

“What is the water tank for on the baler?”

It is a tank for our hay preservative applicator. We rarely use it, but when we need it - like a rain is coming, we can bale the hay at a higher moisture, get it off the field and into the barn without dusting up and more importantly not heating up.

Here is a video on that set up...

Bill
Hay Perservative Applicator

David @ Nutty, i am in, or was in beef cattle country,and the bale kicker never used here either, but 2-300 miles east of me, in Dairy country,[Minnesota,Wisconsin]it was the only way to go, Mom or Dad could go out and bale three or 4 loads up, wait for the kids to come home from school, or other help to come and put them up in the barn,or where ever they wanted them. then they would cut another chunk of hay,and do it all over again when, conditions were right.

I counted between 9 and 14 strokes per bale. I remember our Massey 12 being around 18.

I would rather watch someone baling hay, than some over paid person chasing a ball, and each other around a field. Stan

(quoted from post at 13:17:09 11/26/20) Happy Thanksgiving everyone!

If your not into football on Thanksgiving (or even if you are), the link is to a video of us baling hay this past summer with the Massey Ferguson 1105, John Deere 348 baler with pan kicker.
Baling Hay Long Play

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hat video makes 29 years look like a summer ago. 348 and a 1085 were just two of the units in dad and grandpa's custom hay bailing fleet. I spent many hours cutting with a 165 with a 9' New Holland New Ideal sickle. Thank's for posting.

David, the craziest bale machine I’ve seen is this European thing, by Kemper. If a bale got jammed or broke, that looks like a nightmare.....

Here in my part of USA, bales by hand stacked on wagons behind the baler were replaced by bale throwers, were replaced with the New Holland bale pickup wagons, now back to bale throwers or accumulators and pick up 8-10 bales with a grapple. Of course a lot of all are still being done, and round balers are used for the big farms of hay.

Paul

A bale picker upper

I've been thinking about going to a bale thrower but most of my fields are reclaimed strip mine fields. By that, they are all on hillsides and I'm wondering if the thrower would work on the hillsides or if the bales would miss the wagon. needless to say, I have no experience with them. Around here we use mostly a wagon or trailer and pick them up off the ground. Some fields are so steep that a 4 wheel drive pick up is about the only thing that can get the bales. Keith

a few shots of how I handle bales today and in the years before I bought my first NH balewagon,, I have sold all three balewagons I had but they worked great for the way I was doing bales then, this for my smaller operation of small squares works perfect for me, keeps me in a bit better shape and I enjoy taking the time to stack by hand,, but I only do 500-1500 a year now days,
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I was just bunching them here for a customer to make it easier to pick up

I don't like kickers but they do work on steep hills fine if you don't overfill and tip the wagon.

My only caution on hills is not to load the wagons so full they may tip or jackknife the baler and/or tractor. While there is still much labor at the barn unloading, the kicker and wagons work well for us in our small fields and quickly get the hay off the fields. The wagons make, for me, a one man operation possible. Maybe when I retire, I might consider an accumulator/grapple.