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gf5205
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OK, so now you have bales on a few wagons headed to the barn full of hay. Lets say you have 120 - 150 on a wagon. Now what? Seems to me you now need to unload these wagons before heading back out to the field, eh? More wagons, drive wagons into barn and tilt-to-dump?
Not sure why your baler is giving you inconsistent bale size and weight, but these factors are easy to adjust and involve the raking process, too.
There's a NH1034 stacke for sale on Craigslist around here for $5600. My 1012 takes 64 back to the barn and leaves a pile there while I head back out to get the rest of a 200 bale evening.
Just curious, because the baler/bale size issue will follow you to the accumulators too, I would imagine.
BTW: I use to tow a 4 place snowmobile trailer behind my baler. It easily handled 250 bales with a person helping out. The problem still was that the traler is full and must be unloaded before heading back out in the field.
We sell about 2/3rds of our hay off of the wagons, so they get emptied by the customers, and we can get the wagons under cover easily and quickly if the customers aren't on time or rain threatens. So our biggest problem is getting the hay onto the wagons. The grabber doesn't help get the hay up into the mow - but neither does anthing else. We are thinking about ground level hay storage, but it's not in the budget right now. If weren't selling most of our hay I would have considered Bale Baskets more strongly.
Our bales are inconsistent because our fields are inconsistent. I don't think the Kuhns will have much problem with bales of different length and density - but then again I never used one .
Greg