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| You have to weigh down the stacks, for us that involved a spool of old heavy binder twine and some used car tires. We took a length of twine tied some thing heavy on it and tossed it across the stack, then you tied a tire on each end, about four feet off the ground. That method worked well with long hay that was stacked with a loader with a hay buck and a cage. Dad hired a neighbor to make some stacks with a Hesston stacker, if I recall that hay ran through a flail chopper and those stacks with short hay you couldn't weigh down very well and the wind would peel them apart. One of my first job as a kid was to tramp hay in the cage. They gave me a fork and told me to pitch some hay in the corners of the cage and bounce around on the stack, kind of like a bouncy house for a eight year old farm kid LOL. Shortly after that we bought a large round baler and no more stacking hay. Making hay was always a high labor affair with all members of the family taking part, today with my disc mower conditioner, v-rake and modern round balers it is not uncommon for me to put up a field of hay without ever leaving the tractor seat.
Edited by J.Rabbit 3/21/2026 11:08
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Related to the square bale post down below
