Camp Douglas Wi. 40miles nw of wi. dells | In 1971 Dad bought Case 230 baler with kicker. I built two 8’Wx16’L baskets out of wood, couple years later bought one steel basket 9’Wx16’L.
In 1981 lost both wooden baskets in a nasty wind/rain storm middle of night doing first crop hay, all 3 wagons were in field, wind grabbed both wooden baskets blow them backwards till they turned and rolled, steel wagon didn’t move.
So I borrowed neighbors two 9’x18’ steel wagons to finish first crop, neighbor was getting out of haying so bought both 9’x18’ wagons.
Then in 1984 bought JD 327 with pan kicker and built two 9’x20’ steel baskets wagons. So now we had 5 wagons 9’ wide, one 16’ two 18’ and two 20’. We baled for ourselves and did custom baling, ruffly 20k bales a summer. We’re flatlanders got out of small square baling in 2005 and sold baler and all the wagons.
I got good with the pan kicker to where could kick 150 bales into the 16’, 175 in 18’s and 200 in 20’s. Thing is with the big 20’ wagons didn’t want to leave bales in them more than 24 hours or you would be digging them out. 18’s weren’t much better, 16’ didn’t matter.
Average day we’d bale 1000 bales, Dad run baler brother and myself would unload and stack in haymow. Doing custom Dad cut and raked, I ran baler with customers unloading wagons. The best day ever baled 3000 bales for a customer that his son and HS football teammates unloaded wagons.
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Hay Kicker Wagon Sizes
