Bale stacker - GIF

Bale stacker.

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Previously:

https://www.homemadetools.net/forum/...616#post139630
https://www.homemadetools.net/forum/...816#post137069
https://www.homemadetools.net/forum/...618#post132696
https://www.homemadetools.net/forum/...692#post128788
https://www.homemadetools.net/forum/...248#post126617
https://www.homemadetools.net/forum/...1905#post75375
https://www.homemadetools.net/forum/...997#post109225
https://www.homemadetools.net/forum/...443#post104318

complex piece of machinery but look at it this way going to the huge sq bales and the round bales put thousands high school kids out of a summer job and a $200,000.00 machine plus the other expensive machines needed to go along with it, that will last 10 years is cheaper than paying a bunch of kids .20 to .50 cents a bale to haul and stack. we used to get .05 cents a bale when I was a kid

Most tech is all about the $$$$$. Pretty impressive while still working on flattish ground. Wonder how it would go in Germany/Swiss border area. LOL

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Originally Posted by Frank S

complex piece of machinery but look at it this way going to the huge sq bales and the round bales put thousands high school kids out of a summer job and a $200,000.00 machine plus the other expensive machines needed to go along with it, that will last 10 years is cheaper than paying a bunch of kids .20 to .50 cents a bale to haul and stack. we used to get .05 cents a bale when I was a kid

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And you wore long sleeve shirts, or cut your forearms to raspberries in the dead of summer.

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Originally Posted by neilbourjaily

And you wore long sleeve shirts, or cut your forearms to raspberries in the dead of summer.

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A Johnson grass field was like handling baled razor wire Alfalfa bales could hit 100 lbs costal was like carrying air compared to alfalfa. Peanut hay was so full of dirt you hated to be a bucker

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Originally Posted by Frank S

A Johnson grass field was like handling baled razor wire Alfalfa bales could hit 100 lbs costal was like carrying air compared to alfalfa. Peanut hay was so full of dirt you hated to be a bucker

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Lucky me. We only had orchard grass and timothy.

Must be nice to have all that money to afford one of these. In my neck of the woods in Oklahoma, we still throw 80# square bales by hand from the ground to the trailer then from the trailer in the barn. On a good day when we have both the gooseneck and flat trailers running it ain't nothing for my daughter, my son and I to throw 200 square bales in one afternoon.. Thank God we only bale square bales every other year. Lol.. 4x5 bales on the other hand run about 500 a summer at minimum..

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Originally Posted by kandiewood

Must be nice to have all that money to afford one of these. In my neck of the woods in Oklahoma, we still throw 80# square bales by hand from the ground to the trailer then from the trailer in the barn. On a good day when we have both the gooseneck and flat trailers running it ain't nothing for my daughter, my son and I to throw 200 square bales in one afternoon.. Thank God we only bale square bales every other year. Lol.. 4x5 bales on the other hand run about 500 a summer at minimum..

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You should be able to find a New Holland automatic wagon, very similar to the video but for small square bales for very little money. I would sell mine for 1k$. Anybody doing small bales here now uses a thrower on the baler and can bale 2500 bales in an afternoon with one person. Bales are selling for 8 dollars each now but it is near impossible to find help. I grew up stacking directly on the wagon behind the baler and that is still done by people with throwers if they have a helper as you get more bales on a wagon.