I waited till some other guys posted before I came in. Twenty years ago or maybe a little more I pitched a little over 30 round bales into a silage chopper to feed to the cows. It's a LOT of work but it can be made easier if you quarter the round bales with a chain saw first. The chain saw opens the bale up and you are left with perfect sized pieces to sink your pitchfork into. Your problem is the bales you are working with are grass and tough grass wants to wrap in the chain saw and take out the crankshaft seal. I never did try unrolling the bales and picking up the green carpet with the chopper because the pickup on the old Gehl fan type chopper was too narrow. Oh yes, a regular four or five tine pitchfork won't let go of the hay very well when you pitch it into the baler. A three or four tine hay fork with long wide spaced tines works much better. Shiny tines help too. The more work you do trying to get the hay OFF the fork means you will wear out faster. Make sure the business end of the fork doesn't come off the handle when you pitch it in. Not a joke!
Oh yes, be very careful. This fall my son who is on a local fire dept helped remove a very unfortunate fatally injured person from a silage chopper. When that pickup grabs you, you are going in. Nuff said!
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