Stacking small bales on pallets

Fievel Farmanimal · Mar 29, 2017

Hello, greetings from Finland. Here are photos and writings of my way to collect small bales of hay and straw on pallets. I'm stacking the bales on trailer attached to the baler:

http://www.haapasalontila.fi/haytrain.html
Bale logistics

Wagtail · Mar 29, 2017

G'day Mate and welcome to TBN from Downunder.

A very interesting procedure, thanks for sharing.

Enjoy the site.

JimRB · Mar 29, 2017

That was a good read with nice pictures.

Kentuckyfarmer · Mar 29, 2017

That's a new idea!! Feel sorry for the guy in the wagon. Can't tell you how many thousands of bales me and my brother in our younger years loaded behind a square bailer and all the hay and straw chaf we had to eat. Welcome

AKfish · Mar 30, 2017

Welcome to TBN. Thanks for the very interesting post. I enjoyed your pictures and the description of your hay production.

What type of hay are you growing? And what livestock are you feeding with the hay?

Thomas · Mar 30, 2017

Interesting :thumbsup: thanks for sharing.

Fievel Farmanimal · Mar 30, 2017

Wagtail said:
G'day Mate and welcome to TBN from Downunder.

A very interesting procedure, thanks for sharing.

Enjoy the site.

Thank you! It's springtime in here, grass is starting to grow and hopes are high.

Kentuckyfarmer said:
That's a new idea!! Feel sorry for the guy in the wagon. Can't tell you how many thousands of bales me and my brother in our younger years loaded behind a square bailer and all the hay and straw chaf we had to eat. Welcome

:laughing: I'm wearing safety glasses to keep that chaf out of my eyes, but I'm quite happy if it isn't raining. I made that bale rail in a hurry and bit wrong, cause the bottom is solid steel plate and all chaff comes up and wind blows it around. Most trash would drop to ground, if the bottom was more open for example two pipes or something. But it works anyway and I haven't made better. Stacking them bales isn't so heavy work in that trailer, cause I don't have to lift bales far away or high.

AKfish said:
Welcome to TBN. Thanks for the very interesting post. I enjoyed your pictures and the description of your hay production.

What type of hay are you growing? And what livestock are you feeding with the hay?

Thanks! Hay is mostly timothy. I haven't own livestock any more, had milk cows till 2014. Selling hay to keepers of horses, lambs, donkeys, calves and cows and to smaller animals too occasionally.

Thank you Jim and Thomas too for comments!

Pauli Toivonen