50 years ago, those pop up loaders were the first improvement over picking up bales from the ground. It meant 2 or 3 guys could do as much as 4 or 5...and load it faster. It does not help when you get to the barn.
Technically, not all that much different than loading straight from the baler, except if you only have one wagon, you can load and unload and keep going until you get it all in. With wagons behind the baler, you need as many wagons as you have hay, or else shut down the baler.
Here are two "modern era" iterations of these.....which I'm guessing are being used in Europe somewhere.
In good hay, with only one man stacking on the wagon, that poor sap is going to be working his a$$ off. But that is also the case with one man stacking behind a baler.
But 50 years ago, with 2 guys stacking on a small truck, it was considered a godsend.
Then the hay monster showed up and the same 3 guys could do 2X as much in half the time and half the effort. The hay monster crew that did ours always ran out of hay before they ran out of effort. Our 1,200 to 1,500 bales was an easy day for them.
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