Hay baling
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Topic: Hay baling
Posted By: Sherman Farms
Subject: Hay baling
Date Posted: 28 Jun 2019 at 7:07pm
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Baled 963 small round bales today. About three weeks later than normal. This is the 70th year for the rotobaler on our farm. Usually make about three thousand bales a year lately.In earlier days we made as many ten thousand a year. ------------- B, C, RC, 3 wc,2 wd,3 wd45, d15, d17, d19, d21, 190, 440, 7040, 918 backhoe, 12 roto balers, 7 60 combines, 40, 66,2 72,90 super, sp100, Gleaner E, F3, 3 L2, R62, and much more |
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Posted By: Ryan Renko
Date Posted: 28 Jun 2019 at 8:00pm
| That's amazing!! We need pictures! Ryan |
Posted By: Sherman Farms
Date Posted: 28 Jun 2019 at 8:05pm
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would if i knew how. ------------- B, C, RC, 3 wc,2 wd,3 wd45, d15, d17, d19, d21, 190, 440, 7040, 918 backhoe, 12 roto balers, 7 60 combines, 40, 66,2 72,90 super, sp100, Gleaner E, F3, 3 L2, R62, and much more |
Posted By: WF owner
Date Posted: 28 Jun 2019 at 9:03pm
| Email the pictures to me at curt12914@yahoo.com and I will post them for you. |
Posted By: Sherman Farms
Date Posted: 28 Jun 2019 at 9:16pm
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Thanks will do so tomorrow afternoon. ------------- B, C, RC, 3 wc,2 wd,3 wd45, d15, d17, d19, d21, 190, 440, 7040, 918 backhoe, 12 roto balers, 7 60 combines, 40, 66,2 72,90 super, sp100, Gleaner E, F3, 3 L2, R62, and much more |
Posted By: darrel in ND
Date Posted: 29 Jun 2019 at 3:11pm
| That's awesome. Roto baling is one of my most favorite things to do. Darrel |
Posted By: WF owner
Date Posted: 29 Jun 2019 at 9:32pm
Here are the pictures from Bob.    |
Posted By: Ryan Renko
Date Posted: 29 Jun 2019 at 9:35pm
| Awesome pictures!!! Ryan |
Posted By: Dan Hauter
Date Posted: 29 Jun 2019 at 9:42pm
| Definitely worth sharing. Brings back memories. Dan. |
Posted By: Dave(inMA)
Date Posted: 29 Jun 2019 at 10:00pm
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Nice! Inspiring....I need to get to work on my Roto Baler! ------------- WC, CA, D14, WD45 |
Posted By: wade89
Date Posted: 29 Jun 2019 at 10:23pm
| Thats great to see. Makes me want to buy the one up the road even more. |
Posted By: bradley6874
Date Posted: 30 Jun 2019 at 9:23am
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Ok iam not old enough to remember that we had square bakers as far back as my mind goes how do you stack and haul them with out rolling and how heavy are they ------------- You can wash the dirt off the body but you can’t wash the farmer out of the heart and soul |
Posted By: DougS
Date Posted: 30 Jun 2019 at 9:57am
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We stacked them like you would stack a square bale. A row down the center of the wagon, bales pointing the long way. Two bales on each side of the center bale, pointing in at the center bale. Our bale hook could grab 10 bales that way and drop them into the loft. 50 pounds per bale is a good weight to shoot for. |
Posted By: Sherman Farms
Date Posted: 30 Jun 2019 at 10:35am
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we haul them on 28 foot implement trailer three rows wide and four or five high.This averages out to about 210 bales a load. ------------- B, C, RC, 3 wc,2 wd,3 wd45, d15, d17, d19, d21, 190, 440, 7040, 918 backhoe, 12 roto balers, 7 60 combines, 40, 66,2 72,90 super, sp100, Gleaner E, F3, 3 L2, R62, and much more |
Posted By: orangereborn
Date Posted: 30 Jun 2019 at 1:15pm
| I have heard from the long time users that the WD was the perfect match. Hand clutch, enough power, fuel ecomomy and not over powered to cause damage. Over that many years I am sure that you had many different power units. What say you??? To me that pic looks like a sweet pair....Thanks for posting....Dale |
Posted By: DougG
Date Posted: 30 Jun 2019 at 1:17pm
| Luv how they kick the bale out of those ,, |
Posted By: Lars(wi)
Date Posted: 30 Jun 2019 at 1:30pm
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my father claimed a CA was perfect for the roto-baler, hand clutch, plenty of hp, but not too much as the day wore on a trained ear could tell by sound of the engine the changing condition or 'toughness' of the hay and make adjustments. ------------- I tried to follow the science, but it was not there. I then followed the money, and that’s where I found the science. |
Posted By: Sherman Farms
Date Posted: 30 Jun 2019 at 3:57pm
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Baled with several different allis tractors over the years but the wd and the wd45s are my favorites.My dad baled with wcs and 8n fords where he had to shifr at every bale. He was in hog heaven when he bought a new 45 in 1954. ------------- B, C, RC, 3 wc,2 wd,3 wd45, d15, d17, d19, d21, 190, 440, 7040, 918 backhoe, 12 roto balers, 7 60 combines, 40, 66,2 72,90 super, sp100, Gleaner E, F3, 3 L2, R62, and much more |
Posted By: chaskaduo
Date Posted: 30 Jun 2019 at 4:05pm
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Sweet lookin bales in the field. Humped a lot of round and brick bales onto the trailers as a 8 to 15 year old. ------------- 1938 B, 79 Dynamark 11/36 6spd, 95 Weed-Eater 16hp, 2010 Bolens 14hp |
Posted By: DiyDave
Date Posted: 30 Jun 2019 at 5:45pm
Some of the best hay I ever baled was with a AC round baler. Being the lazy sort, and not having a bale loader, I usedta take a 4 wheeler ATV with a 42" snow plow bodged on the front of it, and push the bales, into groups of about 25, after baling. Then would throw them onto a dump truck, haul up to the barn and dump... ------------- Source: Babylon Bee. Sponsored by BRAWNDO, its got what you need! |
Posted By: 1terrygladys
Date Posted: 02 Jul 2019 at 10:21pm
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My Grandad baled hay all over our county with a roto-baler and WD for years and years. Was a perfect match for him. ------------- WD-45, WD, Unstyled WC, SC Disk, JD 4430D, JD 4010D, JD B, Iowa pastor & disciple of Jesus Christ |
Posted By: WF owner
Date Posted: 03 Jul 2019 at 4:18am
| I talked to a guy at an auction that told me he loved the roto baler for alfalfa. He said there was a lot less leaf loss than a square baler. |
Posted By: DougS
Date Posted: 03 Jul 2019 at 6:01am
If the hay is put up right, there may be less leaf loss. I never saw the value of leaving the bales sit out through 2 or 3 rains. I know much of the water is shed, but it still damages the first couple of inches. To me that cost more in feed value than leaf loss. |
WF owner wrote:Posted By: allisbred
Date Posted: 03 Jul 2019 at 9:25am
| What moisture are you guys baling alfalfa as dry hay in roll bales holding leaves better than squares? |
Posted By: JohnCO
Date Posted: 03 Jul 2019 at 11:54pm
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My cousins up near Hinckley have had a heck of a time putting up hay this year, not to mention trying to get corn and beans planted... ------------- "If at first you don't succeed, get a bigger hammer" Allis Express participant |
Posted By: AC7060IL
Date Posted: 04 Jul 2019 at 11:30am
| Great AC rotobaler post! Thanks for sharing photos & discussions. Looks like about 50’ between bales? That’s means your hay crop was awesome! The One-Seventy’s power director stick got a workout. |
Posted By: Dusty MI
Date Posted: 04 Jul 2019 at 3:08pm
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In the 50's we had a neighbor had the 2 cylinder green equipment, To them nothing was any good unless it was green. Except the baler and that was the A.C. Round Baler. ------------- 917 H, '48 G, '65 D-10 series III "Allis Express" |
Posted By: BobPaulusCentrOH
Date Posted: 04 Jul 2019 at 4:58pm
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I ran an orange top round baler in the 60's and early 70's for my Dad. Most I ever baled in an 8 hour period was 1,000 bales. Dad always thought a CA was best tractor to run round baler. I have used a CA and D14 with mine. I still have mine, but haven't baled in a number of years. Thanks for the photos.
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Posted By: JimWenigOH
Date Posted: 04 Jul 2019 at 8:28pm
| Your photos of bales out in the field reminded of when I was a boy, the neighbor across the road had a roto baler. I always thought it was neat to watch him making bales and then seeing all the bales out in the field. |
Posted By: 200Tom1
Date Posted: 04 Jul 2019 at 9:14pm
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I started baling in 1960 with a wd45 then dad bought a new series 1 D17. I baled 10's of thousands of bales with that outfit. We had 1 very large barn at home with 3 different hay mows in it. We had 3 hayracks and put 70. Bales on each rack. When you put 12 loads of them up an elevator and mowed them each day, you were ready for a dip in the pond and supper and bed. We had 3 barns on the north farm and only hauled 6 loads a day when we were filling those barns. Dad had a 32' Case elevator with a 12hp Brigs motor on it. It was 5 miles over there. A lot of times we had 1 or 2 stacks at the end of 1 of the hay fields, covered with black plastic. Dad kept his 200 cows on the north farm so every day there was at least 1 load of hay drug out of 1 barn over there. Then there was 1 pickup loaded with silage or ear corn delivered over there every day. Every thing was scooped on or dropped out of the haymow by hand. Good memories. THanks for posting your pictures. |
Posted By: Sherman Farms
Date Posted: 06 Jul 2019 at 11:00pm
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We started picking up the hay bales this week. My three year old grandson walking with his dad along side the trailer came upon a little misfit bale that he picked up and put on the trailer. He makes the fifth generation to handle small round bales on our farm. ------------- B, C, RC, 3 wc,2 wd,3 wd45, d15, d17, d19, d21, 190, 440, 7040, 918 backhoe, 12 roto balers, 7 60 combines, 40, 66,2 72,90 super, sp100, Gleaner E, F3, 3 L2, R62, and much more |