Hay Making on a Different Scale

[LHF2019]

Is that FWA? or MFWD

Hydraulic

 

[LHF2019]

 

[Lineman North Florida]

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28 rolls to the barn every trip isn't a bad haul,especially if you have someone at the barn ready to unload and get it in for you, but if it's like most of the time for me, you are loading it in the field, carrying it to the barn and then unloading and putting it in the barn then back to the field to start the process all over.

 

[Hay Dude]

When I did round bales and stacked them like that, they would get kind of a sweat damp spot where they touched together.
I really dislike stacking. Eats up time & fuel. Feels like you aren’t making hay (or money lol)

 

[EddieWalker]

I'm enjoying your pictures of you moving your round bales to the barn. Do you have any pictures of you unloading them, how they are stacked? I'm mostly curious in how you store them. I need to build a hay barn at my place. The entire process of getting hay to the farm where it can be used, and how it's stored is something new to me.

 

[LHF2019]

Someday need to get where I can stack all hay with skidsteer. Picking away at squares by myself. Slide them in with skidsteer then stack by hand. Fun

 

[EddieWalker]

That's a great barn!!!! Did you build it?

 

[LHF2019]

My ancestors did starting over 100 years ago. The area with squares was the last section added in the 70's. It was built in 3 sections.

That's a great barn!!!! Did you build it?

 

[LHF2019]

28 rolls to the barn every trip isn't a bad haul,especially if you have someone at the barn ready to unload and get it in for you, but if it's like most of the time for me, you are loading it in the field, carrying it to the barn and then unloading and putting it in the barn then back to the field to start the process all over.

All but 40 of the bales went into storage. The rest went down the road. 15/trip 45 minute turn around. One of our most efficient haulers. 240 bales this year to feed the horses year around for our local Jew Camp.

I'm enjoying your pictures of you moving your round bales to the barn. Do you have any pictures of you unloading them, how they are stacked? I'm mostly curious in how you store them. I need to build a hay barn at my place. The entire process of getting hay to the farm where it can be used, and how it's stored is something new to me.

Not a great picture but until the tongue broke this is how we hauled the bales. Another 10 bales. If they go in the barn this is how they are stacked. If in shed only 2 high. Using skidsteer most of the time. Best investment ever made. Did 5 high once on one stack and having a 3rd bale wobbling on top was a little unnerving so that was the one and only time that happened. They make a double clamp that specifically grapples 2 bales so with that thought I could go 6 easy using same clamping method. Maybe someday. $$$$$

 

[EddieWalker]

You have an impressive operation!!! Is this your full time job? Most of the people that I've met have to work to afford their farms.