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I haven't followed your posts real good, but something else comes to mind when I read parts of them. Many folks dump the bundles when it gets a full load in the bundle carrier. The old neighborhood always dumped them in a preplaned system. Some times only one or two, other times more depending on your new formed rows of shocks--90 degree angle to the binders travel direction. After the first few rounds you will get a general idea of how many bundles you will get in a said distance. Learn to dump the bundles so they are in a row --- oposite your travel motion, thus you can cut down on manual labor when making shocks, and cut your travel time down considerably when picking up the shocks--you pick up shocks 90 degrees to your direction of travel when cutting the oats. We have demostrated this a few times when our antique club shocks oats, yea --- some of the old guys insist that they did not do it as kids, and don't want to change. Most of them agree after they see the system, that it saves alot of walking and moving bundles. Steep hills etc can make it less effective, but driving the bundle wagon on a steep hillside is not so sweet either. Our bundles as a kid had no set number of bundles, ten was usualy the first choice, but up to fourteen was allowed if there was not alot of weeds involved. Snakes seemed to like the shocks, and bees always added to the fun. On steep hilsides you may have to adjust the shocks a little to keep them level. Also a tractor with a 3 point can help maintain a good cutting height if you need a little less confusion.
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