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SVcummins

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Was in the basement and saw a post about these
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There were several Hesston 10s and 30s around here at one time. I had some stacked with a 10. Corn stalks mostly.
 
I bought one of the large Hesston ones at an auction for $100 had no use for it but tore it down some really good useful metal and hydraulic cylinders the rest bought about $300
at the scrap yard.
 
We sold the first 1270 Case to a ranch north of town just to work their hay ground and run a Hesston 30 stack maker and feeder, they also bought a new 1070 the same year for haying with the 1270, this was fall 1971, they are still both used for the same job today,, there was a good number of the loaf units sold here in the 70's,, if I had ran cows I would have went this way,, one guy east of me custom hayed with one, he had a VW Bug he would run in the 30 for moving to the next field,, once he had packed it the 2nd time when he remembered he had not taken the VW out of the stacker,, after that he had a convertible VW as he had to cut the crushed top off
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What was the reason for their failure. There is one in the woods down here rusting away. I am not a farmer just asking.
 
If you don?t have to haul hay any distance and have
wind protection, I think they are the fastest and best
haying machine ever made. We had a McKee
stacker back in the day. I have also used a Heston
30a. Both could put up more and better hay then
the balers of that time frame, and when I was done
all the hau was in the yard
 
what failure? they worked Great for your own hay usage, if you wanted to sell the extra or just sell it they only work if the buyer has a feeder for the stacks
 
Thanks Case. I was just asking. Because in all my travels around Texas. I have only seen one beside a barn collecting rust.
 
I have s Hesston 10 I use at one place, built feeder racks
through the middle of an 80 foot shed to load the stacks as
made and open the shed when ready to start feeding.
Cheapest haying method there is if you use it right where you
put it up.
 
A local guy used his for corn stalks. How was the hay quality from those? The flail pickup probably worked with grass hay, but may have been too rough on dry alfalfa leaves?
 
To hard to move if you needed to move the hay very far although I did see a loaf going down the road behind on a gooseneck trailer a couple years ago
 
They really only worked well in the desert areas, because if you got too much rainfall over the winter it wouldn't shed all the water and would ruin the stack. Good in Wyoming, eastern Colorado, eastern Montana, etc. Ranchers there would line up however many stacks could be conveniently moved to a spot, then put up a fence around them and substitute in some feeder panels to self-feed a portion at a time during winter. Sure a lot easier than hauling hay to the cattle every day.
 
When Heston first came out with the 60, very few ranchers had a tractor big enough to pull it. Up until the mid 70s, most ranchers had a 560 Farmall,7 or 830 Case or a 3020. None of them have the power to handle a big stacker. Most were still loose stacking hay with either a loader or a slide stacker .
 
Used mainly for cornstalks around here in SW WI. Still a few around but round bales don't blow away like stacks can with dry stalks. We still make some for the steers in the shed.
 
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