Hay Loading

[Northart]

Here's the way they loaded hay . All steel wheels, no rubber.

[jughead]

just finished watching the same thing on rfdtv only pulled by horses. seems like they grew men back then.

[bobcat ron]

Odd looking contraption of a tractor.

[Sageair]

just finished watching the same thing on rfdtv only pulled by horses. seems like they grew men back then.
Yup, the days of iron men and wooden ships.

[RonG]

Our hayrack was pulled by a horse.Dad used to pitch it up to us kids and we would build the load and the load had better be built right 'cause we would hear about it!!!Ron G

[tonka]

and this is how you do it today

[euclid]

that is a happening forklift! I can tell you I had to load hay by the 50 pound bails and it was on a daily basis until the season was over or we go the field bailed and bucked!

[tonka]

that is a happening forklift! I can tell you I had to load hay by the 50 pound bails and it was on a daily basis until the season was over or we go the field bailed and bucked!50lb bails are nothing these days, there getting to be about 110-120lbs on average these days

[euclid]

yeah I may be showing my age, that was 25 years ago. and we bailed alfalfa and let me tell ya it was a real bugger to load on our low bow eight high after a night drinking and that hot summer sun!:Banghead

[tonka]

yeah I may be showing my age, that was 25 years ago. and we bailed alfalfa and let me tell ya it was a real bugger to load on our low bow eight high after a night drinking and that hot summer sun!:Bangheadwe loaded a 100 acre field, by hand in a day once, never again tho...

[euclid]

We are talking abut a few thousand acres for just alfalfa it was a full time job in the summer and all us guys got to enjoy the opportunities. Even saw a few snakes caught into the bale a few times and it scared the crap out of me because we get into a mind set.

[Squizzy246B]

Yup, the days of iron men and wooden ships.

...and nervous cabin boys:rolleyes:

[Boots]

Tonka, Where are those photos from? I see you are from New Jersey, but they look like the type of California forklifts shown in some of the photos here in the ag section. Does this one have 2 steering wheels so you can drive in either direction? Who makes these forklifts?

Also, I can't see much of the trailer is it a pup or a spread axle. I've seen some of the Calif guys have 2 pups with single axle tractors for hauling hay, but I don't know why they use that setup.

Nice rigs for sure.:usa

[tonka]

Tonka, Where are those photos from? I see you are from New Jersey, but they look like the type of California forklifts shown in some of the photos here in the ag section. Does this one have 2 steering wheels so you can drive in either direction? Who makes these forklifts?

Also, I can't see much of the trailer is it a pup or a spread axle. I've seen some of the Calif guys have 2 pups with single axle tractors for hauling hay, but I don't know why they use that setup.

Nice rigs for sure.:usaThoes pics were taken in Cali, by a guy named Dean Doctor. I am from cali but now live in NJ. The cali guys use the two trailers for easy unloading. Most of there customers live down narow dirt raods and its easyer pulling one short trailer than one long trailer.


here is the truck that is being loaded, owned and operated by Mike Maggini of Riverdale Ca.

[Countryboy]

Wow, nice truck. :drinkup

Are those what you'd call "hay stacks"? :D

[dirt digger]

i never understood why they spend money on a forklift out there when a tractor does the same thing....we just bought a kicker baler this past winter so our days of picking them out of the field are over :drinkup builds good muscle though

[tonka]

i never understood why they spend money on a forklift out there when a tractor does the same thing....we just bought a kicker baler this past winter so our days of picking them out of the field are over :drinkup builds good muscle thoughahh a bale waggon

[tonka]

Wow, nice truck. :drinkup

Are those what you'd call "hay stacks"? :D
check out all there trucks
http://www.hankstruckpictures.com/dd_ca_maggini.htm

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zj0UUgy867w&feature=related

[bobcat ron]

i never understood why they spend money on a forklift out there when a tractor does the same thing....we just bought a kicker baler this past winter so our days of picking them out of the field are over :drinkup builds good muscle though

Me thinks these fork lifts are cabable of doing highway speeds, there was some pics somewhere here of the interior of the cab with a second seat and driver's wheel, they are just small trucks.

[tonka]

Me thinks these fork lifts are cabable of doing highway speeds, there was some pics somewhere here of the interior of the cab with a second seat and driver's wheel, they are just small trucks.
basicly there a truck, with 2 wheels and can drive on the highway

[euclid]

ahh a bale waggon

Had we had that growing up we'd been in the right place and not worked so darn hard!

[Skidder]

Looks to be a lot a truck for a single drive axle

[bill onthehill]

We used hay loaders like those first pics behind mules at my grandpa's farm when I was young. take it back to the barn and unload with the drop forks on a trolley to roll into the top of the haymow. After my dad convinced gramps to get his first tractor in the late 50's he bought a new holland wire tie baler powered by a wisconsin motor but still pulled it with the mules. My sisters and I used to pray for those mules to slow down especially at the ends of the row. those were the heaviest bales I ever worked with. Took 2 of us to handle them. My sister would hang onto my belt while I reached out with the bale hook to drag it off the chute. no kickers back then. you learned the proper way to load a wagon or you got to do it again when it fell off.

[dirthog28]

Maybe you guys have seen this, but seems like a pretty neat idea to me, I don't know how well or tight it would stake them on the trailer though.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Df-yGhK7v5c
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qiBQ6Yt94wk&feature=related

I guess it wouldn't tear up the strings?? Beats walking behind trailer throwing them!

[Cathandler]

Its not so much the loading the hay and straw from the field it was atleast according to my dad the cleaning the sheds out by hand that was the killer though it did get hot when stacking near the top of the barn

[bd797]

Around here, most growers use the balewagon to build the stacks. Most stacks will be either 8 large bales or 74-82 small bales. Using the hay squeeze(forklift) is the fastest way to move the hay from field to barn or to someone elses barn. The squeezes do have two sets of controls. One facing the squeeze for field operation and one for highway operation.