I have already read this story about the invention of the round bale, so I'm glad I came across it again so that I can reference it.
round bales
big square bales
Slow motion video of a knotter on a Hesston Large Square Baler filmed at 240fps. I still don't understand how they work, but I can see why it is important to keep cleaning them with a leaf blower.
video of bale consolidator so that they can still use small bales. Video of a lower cost "cash crop" consolidator. Another video of a Maxilator.
This video of a self-propelled 4240SP Bail Baron was bad because it was obvious it picked up little bales but you could not see what it did with them until the end. It turns out it bales them into big bales. I guess the advantage is that you can handle them like big bales in the field and storage, but then cut the outer strings and feed with little bales. But this machine looks rather expensive.
IowaDairyBoys video: a composite of scenes of all aspects of hay harvest except tedding and big square bales
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Unfortunately, this video is heavy on the commercial flavor. One useful tidbit from the audio is that it loads at 5-10 mph.
Big bales also need new equipment during feeding time. I had been skipping videos of that aspect. But I've decided that equipment is also part of the story of modern hay bailing. Here is a video of Maxilator's Bale Spliter.
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Video of modern equipment to do small square bales. New Holland self-propelled bale gathering wagon (an excerpt from the previous video). They put up about 50,000 bales a year because they find it easier to use little bales in the feed lot.
Video of Kuhn's bale accumulator. The Kuhn link also shows the grabbers can then be used to pick up the accumulated piles.
Video of a tractor pulling two balers.
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making and stacking big square bales
just gathering bales, with a skid loader and wagon at night. I would think the wagon driver would move closer to the next second bale. Then she mentions this is the first time she ever drove that tractor. Another video where she is pulling a gooseneck with a Ford 350. They also do small bales for some of the smaller horse farms in the area, including feeding big bales to the baler to make small bales!
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One person solution to loading and stacking big bales. and then bale wrapping and stacking just one at a time because the bales have to be in a single line for the wrapper. And then a front-loader that does 3 bales at a time to the stack. Near the end the loader start making a line for wrapping rather than stacking them for. At the very end, it appears the stacks are just temporary. They later be put into a line and wrapped.
Arcusin Autostack
Round baling he has to stop and backup to drop a bale? No audio? The do a lot of bouncing at these high speeds. then they use a loader and wagon to pick up wrapped bales.
Video of truck with attachments so that it can pickup, haul and stack round bales.
Do this 1930s Farmall also after audio is fixed.
Last HotTimes read was September 9, 2002: Today we do another study in Cranial Rectal Inversion
Video of small: field with kicker, unloading, and mowing.
I can't find the video for the accumulator, but here it is horse drawn!
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| Screenshot from video Matthew Kahnke Because you can sell idiot blocks to horse people for like 4 dollars a bale |
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Video of loading bales into a "spiral wagon." Kemper Express BE125 Ballen Automat
Another including unloading, but camera too close. Where is my link to the unloading directly into a barn?
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| Screenshot, Krone hay pellets Krone's page Too slow. Bale big square to beat the rain and then feed bales to a pelletizer in a building |
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Another video of a JD hay cuber?
Collecting big square bales: many forks on a tractor (I already have this somewhere)
A trailer with pickup: it can haul and stack 16 bales. It can pick them up and shove them on the trailer about as fast as he can drive to the next bale.
In the Midwest, the problem is having enough days in a row without any rain (about 3) to let the hay become dry enough to store in the mow without the risk of spontaneous combustion. But now that I think about it, when it was dry enough, baling hay was the priority for the day. I did not realize until I saw this video that hay can get too dry. But it makes sense that the leaves of alfalfa hay would get brittle and break off if it was too dry. After all, the problem with rain while letting the hay dry is that it knocks the leaves off the hay. The hay is still good enough for beef cattle, but not dairy cows.
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Collecting big square bales: many forks on a tractor (I already have this somewhere)
A trailer with pickup: it can haul and stack 16 bales. It can pick them up and shove them on the trailer about as fast as he can drive to the next bale.
In the Midwest, the problem is having enough days in a row without any rain (about 3) to let the hay become dry enough to store in the mow without the risk of spontaneous combustion. But now that I think about it, when it was dry enough, baling hay was the priority for the day. I did not realize until I saw this video that hay can get too dry. But it makes sense that the leaves of alfalfa hay would get brittle and break off if it was too dry. After all, the problem with rain while letting the hay dry is that it knocks the leaves off the hay. The hay is still good enough for beef cattle, but not dairy cows.
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