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Wheat Farmer

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Had to move the tractors out of the hay barn this year to make room for 5500 bales. This retrieve truck picks up 160 bales at a time (One stackwagon load. Today we moved 1600 bales 3.3 miles in 6 hours.
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Because of the drouth,lots of guys were only 50%.Here at 'home',we had 70%.Some guys in the higher mountains had NO water.Hence,little or no hay.If you got hay,you have a gold mine!
 
That is some operation!

Sure would like to see a couple of photos of how you stack them in the field.

Thanks for sharing your photos with us.
 
My late dad should have seen that haying operation. We put it up loose sure glad I was drafted into the Army. Hal
 
WheatFarmer,
Really interesting. I have never seen anything like it. Sure is a labor saver. Thanks for posting pics.
SF
 
That is a good way to move bales. We have an older New Holland 1010 bale wagon that I can pick up bales off the ground and stack or unload off the side onto a bale elevator. It only holds 56-63 bales and is pull type, so its a lot slower than your truck mounted unit. But, at 60+ years of age,
somehow the slower speed doesn't seem as important as it did 20-40 years ago!!
 
I was just watching some of that bailing and stacking on youtube a few weeks ago. Here is one of the videos.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r9P4Fr43B8c

Can't find the other but they used a pickup to gather the hay from the field. It had 2 arms that would drop down in front of the truck and the driver would drive into the bundle on the ground and then raise that bundle right up over the cab and stack the bundles above and behind the cab. Similar to this video.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4qPHmhE4J5w
 
In this case one person was raking, one baling, one running stack wagon,and us in the truck. All being done in the same day. The swathing was done three days earlier. The stack wagon picks up 160 bales per load. Most of the time a person doesn't touch a bale. OH YES I said MOST of the time. Ha Ha. 5500 bales in the barn. Might just take tomorrow off. My stack wagon only has 69 bales per load,and a pull type, but I have moved hay 4 miles away with it.
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