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Re: Hay Stacking Question for Allen???
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Posted by Ron in Nebr on January 12, 2005 at 21:53:57 from (65.172.143.34):
In Reply to: Hay Stacking Question for Allen??? posted by SuperCmore on January 12, 2005 at 09:56:32:
If you go to the "galleries" section on the left side of this page under "tractor photos" you can see some pics I posted a month or so ago of our haying equipment in action.
Very few people in these parts ever used small bales(locally known as "idiot blocks") unless they put up a very few of them to put in the haymow of their barns, etc., since most people put up several hundred tons of hay each summer.
The stacks we made averaged around 6 tons each. Before the mid 70's we fed them from haysleds which were generally built with a large tilting platform on top of two low-slung I beams between two semi-truck axles. Then the hay was fed either by hand with drag forks, by a grapple fork on a loader, or by a hydraulic hydra-fork which was similar to a backhoe mounted on the sled but had a grapple on the end to grab the loose hay. Later on we used large chain-type stackmovers with hydra-forks.
"Topping off" a stack of hay was pretty much an art form. If the person doing the stacking could get the proper crown on top of the stack it would shed water pretty good. I remember as a kid driving down the road and comparing all the neighbors stacks to our own.
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