Looking for a Hay Press

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JD Gimpl

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• Oct 22, 2009

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Does anyone know of a press for sale out west here. I would like to find on that I can restore to bale our 3 acres. Just picked up an old JD hay loader and the last thing I need is the press.

Would love to hear from someone.

Thanks, JD Gimpl

 

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DaveK(IN)

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• Oct 23, 2009

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I"ve seen several posts about a hay press. Can someone explain just what it is and how it works?

Always glad to learn something new here. Thanks in advance.

 

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TimMiller

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• Oct 23, 2009

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Hay baler is also called a press. If its a square baler (i'll try to get pics of ours with the covers removed this weekend) it picks up the hay and feeds it into the chamber in which there is a huge plunger that presses it together. As it feeds through it wraps string around the bale, and sticks it around the end of the bale with a set up big needles then the knotters tie the knots and cut the string and the process starts with the next bale.
Now the round balers (which i do not have experience with) make the bale by spinning the hay around and around on rollers. When the hay gets to the size the operator wants (indicated by a guage on the outside of the baler, or a beeping sound, or digital display) depending on how fancy and new the baler is then the operator stops the tractor pushes a button or pulls a string that makes the baler open up and eject the bale from the rear of the baler.

 

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DBAF

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• Oct 23, 2009

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I know of several in southern oklahoma where are you located.

 

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thurlow

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• Oct 23, 2009

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Google (images) is your phriend.
hay press

 

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Anonymous-0

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• Oct 23, 2009

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I think a"Haypress" is a stationary baler that was run with a belt off the tractor and the hay must be hauled to it

 

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Leroy

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• Oct 23, 2009

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The hay is forked in by hand into the plunger opening and to tie the bales you push wires in from one side and where they come out the other side you twist then to tie the bale. They never used twine.

 

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ScottyHOMeY

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• Oct 23, 2009

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Good find.

The only thing I'd add for Dave's benefit is that this thing did not tie the bales like a convential hay baler. When a new bale got to the length wanted, they'd stop feeding it for a second. There was a mechanism whereby, the magpie would grab a wooden block and take it down into the path of the plunger. Then they'd start feeding it again, with the effect of sandwiching the block. The block was made with slots so that as the bale moved back in the chute and was still under tension, wires could be passed through and around the bale and tied.

You'll find them powered one of two ways, both belt driven. One was a belt from a tractor or a separate stationary engine. Others had the engine mounted to the chassis of the press.

 

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keh

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• Oct 23, 2009

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Have seen a hay press that was pto powered. Think it was a Turner. Don't remember if that was the one we borrowed to use or not. Baling hay that way is a lot of work, the big advantage is saving hay storage space, not saving labor.

KEH

 

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Anonymous-0

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• Oct 23, 2009

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There is one for sale in the classified section

 

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Anonymous-0

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• Oct 23, 2009

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DBAF, where in southern OK are they? Duncan here

 

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ScottyHOMeY

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• Oct 23, 2009

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Okay, three ways. I never saw one, but it makes sense.

My all time favorite is the Amish riggin', a horse-drawn, modern conventional pickup baler powered by a 20hp Honda. I never got close to one, only seen 'em out in the fields, but I figure they must be belted up to a pulley on the PTO shaft.

 

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thurlow

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• Oct 23, 2009

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4......at least; they were also horse/mule powered. Transport wheels were removed; animal walked 'round and 'round, stepping over the wooden tongue each revolution........kinda like powering a sorghum press, except the animal didn't circle the whole baler. My Dad came home from Germany in late '45 and swapped a liberated Luger for a hay baler/press. I was too little to help with the baling; my job was to keep the mule going. Other than the 'power', it worked just like the belt/engine driven ones.

 

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thurlow

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• Oct 23, 2009

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This is not exactly what I remember (it's been 60-plus years), but it's close.

 

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ScottyHOMeY

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• Oct 23, 2009

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I'm livin' and learnin' every day!

 

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keh

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• Oct 23, 2009

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All modern engine driven pick up haybalers I have seen have the v belts coming off the engine and going around the flywheel. Seems like at least some JD balers have v belt grooves cut in the flywheel. The old NH Super 77 I used had the v belts arranged to go over the flywheel on the flat side. When I visited the PA Amish country an IH dealer had new balers ready to go to an Amish customer with a gas engine and steel wheels. I think he said the conversion added 2k to the price.

KEH

 

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DBAF

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• Oct 23, 2009

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I live east of Pauls Valley,Only one that I'm pretty sure is for sale,The others might be as I have never seen one of them moved.

 

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Walterdavies

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• Oct 23, 2009

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Out here on the west coast a Hay Press is where you take your 1000 lb bales and have them pressed to half their size. There is one in Aurora, OR just north of me. They also do the small bales for the local feed stores. You walk in see this small half size bale and when you pick it up you find it weighs 80 lbs.
Walt

 

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JD Gimpl

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• Oct 23, 2009

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Hi DBAF,

Would you happen to have a phone number for the ones for sale? We 3 acres in hay and I thought an old press would be fun to do as a family project.

Thanks JD Gimpl