Posted by modirt on July 21, 2019 at 06:15:14 from (199.187.163.74):
In Reply to: Bale loaders . posted by SVcummins on July 20, 2019 at 23:21:06:
As others have mentioned, top picture is of a pop up bale loader. For loading, eliminates the need for guys on the ground. For unloading no different than most other systems. If stacking in a barn, you could use an elevator to get them into a loft barn. Attaches to a standard 2 ton truck....or even a flat bed wagon.
Bottom picture is of a hay monster. I recently purchased one of those and am in the process of rehabbing it into working condition.
At first glance, the two might look like they would work the same way. They don't. Hay monster picks bales up the same way, but is stacked from the back to the front. Bales ride in a channel or tray down the middle to the rear. Stackers just have to pick them up from the tray, turn them 90 degrees and drop em. One on one side, one on the other. For short hauls, bales are stacked 3 high, plus 2 on top to tie them together. Single load if 3 high is 150 bales. For longer hauls, you can go 4 high plus tie to get you 200 bales.
At the barn, hydraulic motor that runs the chains is reversed, snout elevates to shoot them into the loft or to top of stack. Most come with an extension to allow you to go pretty high up.
Last 2 crews we hired (about 45 years ago), one used the pop up loader. Other used a home built hay monster. The kids on the hay monster would easily lap the guys with the pop up loader.
There were a limited number of commercial hay monsters made. Deweze (like mine), Kent and United Technologies. For every commercial built machine, there were probably 10 that were made in home shops out of school bus and truck frames, with hydraulic parts lifted off combines.
The reason there were not many of them made was they only came out a few years before Vemeer introduced the big round balers, and in our part of the world, it only took about 2 years for all the hay producers to make the switch.
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