Re: Question for David in England re: accumulator

Posted by David in England on June 28, 2006 at 12:24:27 from (86.137.16.168):

In Reply to: Question for David in England re: accumulator / ba posted by CB in central NY on June 28, 2006 at 07:29:51:

Hi CB ;
The bale accumulator (sledge) was used by every farmer in England, made by lots of companies. A tubular steel frame with trip rope opening rear gate, and steel slats on the floor. Towed behind baler with chain.
The downside was that the bales could get jumbled up when turning corners, and could get contaminated with soil being dragged across the field; and even the twine get dragged off bales.
The 1st Flat 8 system came from Farmhand, which was a towed platform with chains & teeth that sorted the bales automatically into a perfect 8 formation and dumped them to be picked up by the loader frame which had retractable teeth to hold the bales. The loader could put them onto a trailer and then place them into the barn. A load of companies here made similar systems.
Small square bales became almost obsolete several years ago. Only a few small farmers still make them for their few cattle, sheep or horses. So most of the small square balers & bale handling machinery got pushed to the back of the shed, or into the nettle patch, or they joined the rest of the obselete machines being "gas axed".
New Holland did bring a few self propelled and trailed Stack Liner system collectors & stackers here but they were too expensive.
One company built a novel bale mover. By stacking flat 8 rows of bales ontop of each other about 10 bales high, a 2 wheel trailer with open sides could tip to vertical, the sides squeezed the bale stack, and the whole bed was lowered to horizontal for transport back to the yard, then would tip up again to dump the stack vertically.
So one man could stack in the field with his loader, and then transport 80 bales back to the yard and then stack the bales with the loader into the barn.
If I see any units at work here, I'll post a photo on the website.
Cheers David

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