Posted by BarnyardEngineering on November 05, 2020 at 10:32:41 from (98.17.202.246):
In Reply to: Unstacked Hay posted by Bill VA on November 05, 2020 at 09:21:50:
Until I was about 18 years old, we only stacked hay around the chutes and across openings to contain the piles. The rest we let fall in a pile. We stacked for a few years, but after we all graduated college, the lack of help forced Dad back into letting it fall on a pile again.
Now just because you don't stack the hay doesn't mean you don't get up there and level the pile off so you can fill the mow. After a few loads someone has to go up there and throw hay around, the difference being one person can stand in one place and throw the hay, versus having to drag bales across the top of a stack to stack them neatly. One person can easily handle mow duties vs. having to have 2-3 up there to stack them neatly.
We always got just as many bales in the mow dumped in there randomly as stacking neatly.
The pile only falls on you if you're stupid and let it. You just need to recognize when the hay is coming and get out of the way, or climb up there and knock them down before they can fall down on you. It was our job as kids to climb the pile and knock bales off the top.
You can also dig straight into the side of a random pile where you have to pull the bales off a neat stack one layer at a time. Digging into the side of a neat stack makes it much harder to restack the next year because the old bales are compressed and the new ones aren't, so the layers don't match up.
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