Some question me for not using the kicker wagons, but yesterday from 12 o'clock til 2 o'clock I baled 574 bales on the ground and from 2 til 6 o.clock me and my one very good helper hauled and stacked in the barn 574 bales with my pickup truck. We put 54 on the truck per load, never get off the ground loading, field was kind of steep, shaped like Texas and the haul to the barn was a little over a mile. Probably couldn't have handled nearly 600 bales with wagons, especially with just two men in 6 hours.
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Ohio88
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- Fairborn, Ohio
That is some work!
Bob Harvey
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Wow ! 4+ bales a minute . Were you in 8th gear ? ;^)
J.Wondergem
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- Rockford, Mi.
Glad it was you and not me.
banjoman09
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Gezzzz...im too old for this stuff! Good Job.... its 105 here...and there?
You got lucky on that rain Wolfman. I thought for sure it was going to rain Friday so baled my rye straw Thursday. Started raking about 1. Done and back to barn about 6:30 with 484 squares all on wagons. One wagon will stay loaded til it gets sold off of it, one will stay loaded til sold or second cut hay is ready (which ever comes first), third wagon is the neighbor's and is only here til they take home and do what they want, fourth wagon only has a few thrown on and will get unloaded when I need the wagon next. First two wagons are stacked on so bales will stay nice. Lucked out and my brother came and stacked the wagons for me, so had two people working. Usually I'm by myself with dad (91 this year) getting wagons for me.
Hay hay hay
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You did that at 77? Amazing! Well done, just wish I still could. You are my role model.
BarnyardEngineering
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The key to kickers is having enough wagon capacity. 574 bales is 3 wagon loads for me. I could have had that off the ground and under cover by 3PM.
If you don't have to stop you can bale a lot of hay in a short amount of time. The downside is the bales are still laying there in the field.
If you don't have to stop you can bale a lot of hay in a short amount of time. The downside is the bales are still laying there in the field.
Dont know whats more impressive, getting all that hay in the barn in an afternoon with such limited equipment and manpower or you averaging a bale every 12.5 seconds. I can make one every 8 seconds on a good day but that is when the baler is actually in the windrow and baling and not counting end row turns and other non baling time.
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