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Central Kansas | Dry Creek is a dealer for Hoelscher and I think it is in Hesston, right? Hoelscher is made in Bushton, Ks about 60 miles north of Hesston. This accumlator is attached to tractor hydraulics and places 10 bales on edge, 2 end-to-end, 5 deep. When the accumulator bed is full, the bed dump is activated and they slide off the back in a packet of 10 bales.
Pros: tried and true machine....been around quite awhile now with newer versions better than the earlier ones (I think the early ones were reddish...new ones have some white on them). Another pro is more bales per footprint size than when bales are flat or string-side up. There are 8 bales in those packets in the same square footage as the 10 bale package.
Cons: older versions, and maybe the new ones, trailed kinda crazy down the road at any speed....like road gear on a tractor. Wheel shimmy. It takes a little learning curve to be able to pick up a packet with your 'claw' or 'grab' without knocking over one of the outside bales as they stand on a little narrower footprint. You get used to it after awhile. The 10 bale on edge deal makes a 4 to 5 tier high wagonload 4" higher per tier due to the 'on-edge' format. It becomes about a wash as to how many you haul per load.
==>The hay grab or claw for any 8 bale packet will work with the Hoelscher bale dump. An old Farmhand fork will work just fine as will some of the newer hay grabs set-up for 8 bale packets. You can buy extra teeth to make any of these grabs a little more fool proof. All-in-all, these are well designed machines that do a good job. New, they are a little spendy | |
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hoelscher bale accumulator
