Makin' hay with Cliff Johns

DaveNay · Sep 13, 2004

Makin\' hay with Cliff Johns

Had lots of fun yesterday, Cliff came out to help up bring in 10 acres of hay, and stack 1000 bales for the winter. Thanks for the help Cliff!!!!!!

Dave

DaveNay · Sep 13, 2004

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Additional pictures in my gallery.

Dave

Cliff_Johns · Sep 13, 2004

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( Had lots of fun yesterday, Cliff came out to help up bring in 10 acres of hay, and stack 1000 bales for the winter. Thanks for the help Cliff!!!!!!

Dave )

You're welcome.

That auto-stacker or whatever it's called is a very cool machine. Apparently, if it worked well and you had a wall to stack against, you could do the whole haying job through to stacking the hay in the barn (first floor unless you had a large elevator) with only one person.

Has anyone used one of these and actually stacked in the barn with it, rather than dump it out and load it into the barn by hand?

Cliff

johnday · Sep 13, 2004

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Dave, Cliff helped stack it too!?

Dear Lord; Please don't let 5030 read this thread. AMEN!! /forums/images/graemlins/smirk.gif

DaveNay · Sep 13, 2004

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Cliff did indeed help stack. The actual baling and bringing it in from the field was contracted, but we had to bring it into the barn and stack it by hand.

I have posted about the bale stacker before, it really is a neat machine.

Dave

cowboydoc · Sep 14, 2004

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All we use in Idaho are hay stackers. Ours are self-propelled and we stack everything outside in big stacks that are about the size of a football field. I put a limited number in an old barn that I restored and stack them. Mostly I drive the stacker into the barn and throw them into the loft. We can store 15,000 bales in the old barn that we restored in Iowa.

Cliff_Johns · Sep 14, 2004

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( Dave, Cliff helped stack it too!?

Dear Lord; Please don't let 5030 read this thread. AMEN!! /forums/images/graemlins/smirk.gif )

Hey, wait a minute! Dave told me that stacking was the "fun" part. He said he'd charge me less to help with the field work, but that it wasn't nearly as interesting or instructional as being in the loft stacking. He didn't con me did he?

Cliff

DaveNay · Sep 14, 2004

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Richard,

Are your stackers larger that this one? This one holds 105 bales per load, and I can't imagine how long it would take to retreive 15,000 bales from the field using this one.

Actually, I can.....it took us about 4 hours to get 1000 bales done, so that is about 5 days of 12 hrs work to do 15,000. /forums/images/graemlins/shocked.gif /forums/images/graemlins/shocked.gif

Dave

slowzuki · Sep 14, 2004

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Retrieving 15,000 bales the old fashioned way, ie loading wagons from the ground, takes about 6 weeks with a crew of 6 working 3 or 4 days a week.

DaveNay · Sep 14, 2004

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( Retrieving 15,000 bales the old fashioned way, ie loading wagons from the ground, takes about 6 weeks with a crew of 6 working 3 or 4 days a week. )

I am guessing that means non-stop work for the entire season, because by the time you get done, it's time to go back and start cutting and baling at the other end of the field. /forums/images/graemlins/shocked.gif /forums/images/graemlins/shocked.gif

Dave

johnday · Sep 14, 2004

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Cliff; No doubt in my mind that some of the real farmers can get pretty sly at times. /forums/images/graemlins/laugh.gif

cowboydoc · Sep 15, 2004

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The self-propelled ones will hold around 200. I think the newest ones will do over 300 bales. You can't beat square bales for quality. You save alot more leaf and it's so much easier on the hay, especially alfalfa. The self-propelled ones are three times as fast as the tractor drawn ones. As fast as you can drive over the field it will pick them up and stack them. Unloading takes about 2 minutes.

Currmudgeon · Sep 16, 2004

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You're haying with an 855?

DaveNay · Sep 16, 2004

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( You're haying with an 855? )

No....a Case 930.

See this thread and photos.

Dave

sweettractors · Sep 16, 2004

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That auto-stacker or whatever it's called is a very cool machine 

Cliff, I have a neighbor that has the next size smaller version (80 some bale capacity) of the stacker. He talks about trading it in. Do you have a idea what a good used New Holland accumulator would be selling for?--Ken Sweet

Sweet Farm Equipment LLC *New 3 Point Tub Seeder/Spreaders with enclosed gearbox $320*

slowzuki · Sep 16, 2004

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I've been following prices as I want to get one, there is a good website, Roeder Implements or something like that which sell reconditioned ones and lists all the specs. They usually sell for between 1500 - 20000 depending on age, model and location.

Some models have no push off pads, some won't auto-tie the layers, some have single bale unload (sweet as you just park at the conveyor and feed em!)

( That auto-stacker or whatever it's called is a very cool machine 

Cliff, I have a neighbor that has the next size smaller version (80 some bale capacity) of the stacker. He talks about trading it in. Do you have a idea what a good used New Holland accumulator would be selling for?--Ken Sweet

Sweet Farm Equipment LLC *New 3 Point Tub Seeder/Spreaders with enclosed gearbox $320* )

sweettractors · Sep 16, 2004

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Thanks Ken, I will check them out--Ken Sweet

Cliff_Johns · Sep 16, 2004

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( Cliff, I have a neighbor that has the next size smaller version (80 some bale capacity) of the stacker. He talks about trading it in. Do you have a idea what a good used New Holland accumulator would be selling for?--Ken Sweet)

Haven't a clue, but it sounds like you may get your answer from the other Ken.
Cliff