Posted by Suffolk1 on October 20, 2015 at 06:46:00 from (72.173.142.144):
Considering other ways to stack twine tied round bales (4 X 5) inside an open-sided shed. Currently use a hay spear attached to the loader bucket (7ft. wide) on a backhoe and place the bales on their side in a pyramid stack. Using this method, you effectively only use one half of the volume available inside the shed. Also any unused bales get buried at the back of the stack when next years crop is placed in the shed. It is not possible to remove one "row" of bales from the front to the back of the shed, so that the unused bales could be fed up first the next year. In my travels, I have seen round bales stacked on their flat ends, two to three bales high, to fill an open sided hay shed. It appears this method would allow removal of one or two "rows" of the bales clear to the back of the shed and the surplus hay bales from one year could be fed first the following year. The bales would not be stacked in a pyramid and the full volume of the hay shed would be used. This would allow a much larger number of bales to be stored under cover without increasing the size of the shed. My questions are: (1) What type of spears, grapple, squeeze, etc. is used to rotate the bales and stack them on their ends two or three high? (2) Would it make any difference if the bales were mesh wrapped? (3) Do the bales compress much when stacked vertically on their ends three high? (Could see a house of cards toppling if they did.) (4) Got any personal experiences stacking this way or other suggestions of how to stack? (5) Got any pictures? Thanks for any suggestions or clever "farmer fixed" ideas.
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