Creamer
Elite Member
Who used those in our area? I never saw one of these machines other than at the state fair. For the most part people stacked hay either free standing stacks or with a stackhand. Very few people used small squares unless they wanted a few in the barn for special uses. We always made 2-300 of straw to have in the barn but quite often we did not have any hay in the barn - we just would use a loader to bring a pile up to the barn and feed it i the barn by hand with pitchforks.Here is some bale wagons used like where I grew up in SD.
Even in 1976 when we worked with a couple of neighbors making hay in ND and hauling it back we didn't sue these - we used stookers and then loaders right onto the flatbed semis for the haul. We made about 90,000 square bales that year between the 3 of us and what a pain. When they got home we did not stack then off the semis - we just pushed them off sideways into a pile and ground them. Who wanted all the manual labor small squares make?