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Hesston stacker to get rid of junk hay?

rockyridgefarm

rockyridgefarm

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I have some garbage hay that I need to take off a hay field tomorrow. I really don’t want to waste netwrap putting it though my baler, so i was considering borrowing a stakhand 10 and carrying each stack to the edge of the field. Anyone ever try running hay through a flail stacker? Needs yo be done tomorrow, because rain is forecasted for the filling 10 days
 
Years ago neighbor put up ALL of his hay that way. later had round bales. But just this summer the stackhand was going to scrap after not being used for years and owner in poor health and 80 years old.
 
I have stacked a lot of hay with a 30A. They will eat
a lot of hay in a short time and aren?t real finicky
about the condition of the hay.
 

No stacker around here but you can roll it and drop the bale out with no wrap, you have a little loose hay left but not enough to matter.
Just leave the net or twine out, when the alarm sounds dump the bale and start again. Spear up the bales and pack them out of the field.
 
Do you have a pull type chopper??? Just take it and chop the hay back on the field. That way you getting some of the nutrients back on it. I usually put the chute up as far as it will go and blow across any wind you have. If there is no wind just blow 90 degrees to the direction of travel. Start on the out side and work your way to the middle. The chopped hay will be spread pretty evenly over the field that way. You will never see any in the next cutting as the chopper makes it finer than any rake would ever pickup.

You can use a self propelled too and really throw it around. LOL

I would do this over stacking it and carrying it to the edge of the field. You then have the pile of junk to deal with later and you get none of the nutrients back,
 
(quoted from post at 19:31:12 08/29/18) Do you have a pull type chopper??? Just take it and chop the hay back on the field. That way you getting some of the nutrients back on it. I usually put the chute up as far as it will go and blow across any wind you have. If there is no wind just blow 90 degrees to the direction of travel. Start on the out side and work your way to the middle. The chopped hay will be spread pretty evenly over the field that way. You will never see any in the next cutting as the chopper makes it finer than any rake would ever pickup.

You can use a self propelled too and really throw it around. LOL

I would do this over stacking it and carrying it to the edge of the field. You then have the pile of junk to deal with later and you get none of the nutrients back,
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Totally agree with that.
 
We still use a 200 John Deere stacker.Pretty much the same as a 30 A Hesston. WE take hay like that and use it for winter bedding. Cows still will pick through it some. Have stacked hay with stackers since 1976 .Never missed a year. Started with 30 A Hesston and ran it till completely wore out and then traded for 200 John Deere and still have it. In fact cleaned it up today to store for the winter..
 
(quoted from post at 06:39:23 08/29/18) I have some garbage hay that I need to take off a hay field tomorrow. I really don’t want to waste netwrap putting it though my baler, so i was considering borrowing a stakhand 10 and carrying each stack to the edge of the field. Anyone ever try running hay through a flail stacker? Needs yo be done tomorrow, because rain is forecasted for the filling 10 days
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Thanks for the replies. I ended up baling it. Now what to do with 65 round bales of foxtail hay??? It’s good and dry, but junk. Lotta rain overnight, so I didn’t get it done a moment too soon.

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I don't know what you're feeding, but if baled dry, something will eat it. You can let me have it...
 
Maybe some construction company can use it as mulch hay. If it is stacked along a well traveled hi-way put a for sale sign with the price on it and some one may steal it and solve the problem. Any mushroom farms close by they used junk hay I believe. If you can get it to compost at temperature it will kill the weed seed and be a good soil amendment for your fields.
 

It was headed out, but I don't think the seed was viable when I cut it. Bales should weigh about 1200 lbs. I'll post it for $50 a bale on CL and see if anyone wants it. If not, I'll compost it like you mentioned. A chipping company has been dropping chips here, and I have a couple semi loads of poultry litter, so I have plenty of composting material.

When I first cut it, I didn't think I had a chance of baling it dry, and I had no intention of wasting money wrapping it. The rain missed on Thursday night, so I got it baled dry. This morning, Saturday, it just got a couple inches of rain on it in the bale, but that shouldn't hurt it too much. I guess it'd be better than eating snow come winter.
 

You never know.
One year I cut hay and it rained on it for a week, rolled the junk up and dumped it in a big ditch at the back of a pasture field.
Later that fall we turned the cows into that pasture, they went back there and cleaned up all of that junk hay.
 
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