Posted by modirt on May 07, 2020 at 07:13:19 from (199.187.163.74):
In Reply to: Deweze Hay Monster posted by modirt on May 06, 2020 at 07:55:36:
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I've always thought hay hauling was the same all over, but have come to realize how regional it was. Midwest and probably NE dairy farms used kickers and hay wagons.......some just pulled wagons. Then there are the NH stackliners.
I started haying at around age 8.....when they put me on a hay rake. By age 11 or 12, I was doing the mowing too. At around age 16, dad bought his own square baler and I started doing all three. We would do around 5,000 to 7,000 bales a year....that was during the 60's, early 70's.
The worst way ever devised was to shotgun the bales and walk the fields, picking and stacking as you went. Where I live now, that is still the way it is done.....mainly because it is the low tech method. Requires nothing but something flat and moveable to stack on. Also the highest labor requirement, which makes it the least desirable at any scale.
We used a sled....a crude form of the accumulators used now....but that only removed the need to walk and keep up. Bales still had to be plucked off the ground, stacked on the truck, hauled to the barn, then bucked up and stacked. Using a bale loader cut out half that effort, but didn't help at the barn.
When the first "monster" showed up.....it was night and day different. A crew of 3 could easily lap the next best alternative there was.
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