hay equipment questions

I was looking through an old promotional book on 14T balers and it had some information on "one man" haymaking. It talked about a hay bale conveyor system that barns could be outfitted with. It would carry bales from the hay elevator into the loft and along a conveyor that was attached to the barn"s ridge pole. The bales would then be dispersed at intervals in the hay loft without having to be stacked. Are there any companies still making such a monster? Also, does anyone have any experience with New Holland bale wagons? I am particularly interested in the ones with single bale unloading as a feature. How exactly does that work on these machines. Thanks and God bless.

-- old fashioned farmer

As far as the NH bale wagons, I've got a 1034 with the single bale unload. It would drop them right into your vertical elevator. Id say it would work well in one of those set ups, if you have the right bale density (wire tied would help). I've used it once.

Problem for me is Im a ground pounder, theres not a barn on the farm with a loft. My plan was to run it off in an elevator to send it up to the top of the stacks in the sheds and rick it off the elevator. Yeah right. It seems when I need to get hay in the dry I need to get it in NOW, not piddle with stacking it by hand. Then when it rains the next day I could rick it in the barn (or at night when its cooler). Doing it single unload added an hour and 15 min on my barn time vs a 10 minute turn around to dump in the driveway and hand up later. I was losing at least a load or load and a half of turn around time every hour. In a drier climate that might be ok. Here, a lot of times I cant bale until 1-2 in the afternoon and have to quit by 7 at night due to too much humidity/dew. Out where they can bale at night it might be just the ticket.