2manyrocks
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Years ago, hay was pitchforked into a hay wagon in the field and pitchforked off the wagon into the hay loft in a barn in bulk. Then square bales came along that were put on a wagon or truck by hand and unloaded by hand. With labor being scare and expensive, people switched to round bales here which meant using FEL's and larger tractors. I see that others use bale accumulators and grabbers. It looks like we've gone from labor intensive to machinery intensive to do the same job.
Our barn has a second floor hayloft that isn't suited for round bales. Square bales either seem to involve lots of manual labor or several types of machines to move it from the field to the barn, and once in the barn, it still has to be stacked by hand.
Could the hay be blown in bulk into a wagon and then blown into the hayloft with something like a strawblower? Is there a way to gather a hay loft of hay without totally going back to manual labor and without investing in so much hay equipment either?
Our barn has a second floor hayloft that isn't suited for round bales. Square bales either seem to involve lots of manual labor or several types of machines to move it from the field to the barn, and once in the barn, it still has to be stacked by hand.
Could the hay be blown in bulk into a wagon and then blown into the hayloft with something like a strawblower? Is there a way to gather a hay loft of hay without totally going back to manual labor and without investing in so much hay equipment either?