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Ripley, Ontario Canada | I think I would go with an accumulator and flat wagons. With the bale wagon you will have to gather after you bale and run to the barn and dump and come back. If you bale 1500 a day and had 150 per load that is still ten loads. If you are not done baling till 8 pm and did 3 loads an hour and allow 1/2 hour to unhook baler and hook up bale wagon etc you are still running till midnight if things go well and you won't haul very far and get 3 loads an hour. For what a half decent flat rack sells for I would buy about 8 or 10, you could have them all in the field before you start, load them in a couple hours after you are done baling, and if it is starting to rain tarp them or pull 2 at a time back to your shed and back in for the night and unload the next day. Also the grapple will help in reloading. You might also consider trying to get your customers to convert to big (3x3) square bales. If they are storing them and just taking a slab for the horse, a wheelbarrow or bag cart will easy move one slab. If they have a bank barn I would just cut a door in the mow upstairs and push them in 2 high across the floor. It works better if you lay a couple of 6x6's across the boards first, and then have a hole at the end of the stack 3x3 square and just drop the flakes down, really is better than small bales. I push stacks 10 bales long and 2 bales high in my barn like this with a 45hp 4wd tractor. Really works good. I don't have pictures and it is full now and you can't see the 6x6's but it is way better than small bales.
Edited by John In Ontario 7/20/2008 22:58
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I need to automate my bale handling
