Creamer
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Here is the Haybuster brand of stackhand.
That’s different for sure!!Here is the Haybuster brand of stackhand.
I've seen it done out West a lot, stacking hay in big piles after cut & i'm guessing raked. Does anyone here do this or have any idea how they do it?
In my area, you can't get anyone to cut on good years & bad years they call out of the blue wanting it on shares.
I've been thinking about this for several years, can't justify the cost of equipment for 100 bales or so a year for the horses & hate mowing down good mixed grass hay.
Any thought's or ideas appreciated.
Ronnie
Where I grew up in North Central SD we normally got 13-14" of annual precipitation. Having dry ground to set you hay on was as important as not having the rain coming down from the sky in terms of spoilage. That is why we usually put our stacks near the top of hills and certainly not in places where a heavy rain would cause water to run through where the stack was because dry hay is a "quicker picker upper" in paper towel terms and a stack was also very good at noot drying out once it got wet.Can't leave loose hay outside here as it's too wet. The only hay bales you can leave outside are round bales that are net wrapped or plastic wrapped. Everything else has to be put in a barn or it spoils. People used to put up loose hay in barns as that's all there was. No reason somebody couldn't continue to do that as long as you have enough space in a barn to store the hay. 100 small square bales of hay is only about 2 1/2 tons or so of hay so it's not a ridiculous amount to deal with.
It is a lot drier out West and maybe they can get away with things we can't in areas where we get four feet of rain per year, such as leaving loose hay stacked outside. I'd guess they use a grapple to do it today but in the old days, stacking was done by hand with forks.
She the same one that did the log splittle video barefoot?