Re: Advice Input on best way to stack a hay wagon

Posted by wisbaker on August 08, 2014 at 15:40:35 from (173.30.33.15):

In Reply to: Advice Input on best way to stack a hay wagon posted by JohnDeereJimOhio on August 07, 2014 at 17:58:42:

I was taught various ways, working for the neighbors they taught me another way, this upset my dad. The neighbor that taught me how he wanted HIS wagons stacked when I worked for him was one of the few in our little burg that actually made a living farming, he was the kinda fella who would buy a tractor and run it 6,000 hours and it still wouldn't have a scratch or dent on it and you can bet it also ran like new. All his and the local wagons had standards on them (back or backrack in other parts of the country). 1st row five on the bottom with the odd bale long wise in the middle, 2nd row same as the 1st, 3rd row same as the 1st & 2nd, 4th row depending on the field same as the first 3 rows, although once or twice he told me to start topping, which meant to put a row of 4 all across. 5th row, 4 all across or if you did that on the previous row you put one long down the middle.

Pictogram 1st =!=, 2nd =!= 3rd =!= 4th =!= 5th == 6th !

We'd do this 4 times so the wagon had 100 bales. He'd cut it back to 80 on a few of the rented fields he had when we couldn't get out under the trees. When I started for him I lost a load or so until he explained and coached that "you got to keep everything square and tight or it'll get away from us" Most of the other folks in town stacked this way too. Only had to worry about the floating odd bale system or bottom/extra interlocking when I worked for folks over towards Bath (but then one of those guys had a wagon you stacked with a 6 bottom). Like I said once he had me trained we didn't loose any loads. He had a 30 cow dairy and raised Belgian horses and his son had a flock of sheep. Put most of his 1st cutting up in small squares for the horses and most of the 2nd and 3rd went into rounds for the cattle and sheep.

I grew up in a small town outside Lansing Michigan, as I said there were about 6 families that actually made a living farming, everyone else was like we were at home, hobby farmers with a off farm job in Lansing, East Lansing, Owosso or St Johns. I found it interesting when I was home for a reunion in 2010 there are still folks cutting hay with 2 cylinder John Deeres and sickle mowers, raking with steel wheeled rakes and baling with JD 24 t's or NH Hayliner 268's, usually with a John Deere 60 and pulling a hayrack behind the baler.

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