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picken up the hay the new way...???

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Sorry for putting this in tractor area but..it applies somewhat..
I put up small bales, have for most of my 45 year life.. doing it the old fashion way. This year I messed up my back.. looking for folk that have had good luck in picking up bales by use of accumulators, etc.. what works for ya.. what do you like to use. Been lookin at the accumulators that tow behind baler..stores 8 then tilts and leaves them on the ground.. then the grapple thingy that hooks to tractor or skidsteer and picks them all up and you can place on trailer.. can you also unload trailer with them and stack in shed???
 
been lookin at those.. dump height is 13' shed is 11' unless i can dump inbetween the rafters which are 9' apart.
 
How about one of these? Neighbor uses one and it is slick. 21 bales banded together and then dropped onto the ground. They come along with a loader and load the wagons and unload the same way at the barn.
Bale bandit
 
Friend had one, and it worked fine. Bales have to be pretty tight, so the hooks don't just pull out. He loaded wagon with it, hooked up grapple tractor to the wagon and towed it home, then unloaded wagon and stacked in the barn. If you've got any distance to haul, you'd be a lot better off with two grapple set-ups, and pull the trailer with truck (and load the truck, as well).

As I recall, it was kind of spendy to get set up- might want to compare it with bale wagon (I think the smaller ones don't need 13 feet, but not sure).
 

How much did you neighbor pay for the Bale Bandit? I've seen them demonstrated. They need a large tractor with good hydraulics, plus a square baler that is not missing tieing. But they are slick.

KEH
 
We used the flat 8 system in the UK for years and it worked well. We used the accumulators that dragged the bales (Meijer and Browns). Grapple on the loader then picks them up. You can load and unload wagons pretty good, but if going very far on the road, you need to re-arrange a few bales in one layers to tie the load in.
Where they really work good, is you can run around the field with the loader and quickly stack 8 x '8's' (criss cross pattern) and make square 64 bale stacks. Then if you have a tilting grab trailer for this stack, you can pick the whole thing up and move it easily. There was also a 3pt grab for the 64 bale stack.
Chris
 
I am going after some equipment this week and one of them is a farmhand accumulator with grapples this is the kind that is hydraulic driven with it's own pump and the bales are not drug on the ground.It will be for sale if you are interested.
 
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