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View Poll Results: How do you pick up your bales?
Kuhns accumulator 7 8.33%
Hoelscher accumulator 8 9.52%
Steffen accumulator 4 4.76%
Stacker 13 15.48%
Bale thrower w/ Hay Bale Basket 5 5.95%
Bale Sweep 1 1.19%
Long Grapalator 2 2.38%
Other 15 17.86%
Bale Caddie accumulator 1 1.19%
Muscle and Sweat; Love the exercise or have kids 28 33.33%
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Old 08-31-2008, 11:09 PM   #1 (permalink)
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Default How do you pick up your bales?

What type of system do you use to pick up bales, accumulator, hay basket, bale wagon, or the old fashion way, sweat and muscle. I threw some name brand accumulators out there to use the 10 choices, although I know there are more. I know some folks, such as myself, are thinking about one soon. Thanks and hope everyone has had a great Labor Day weekend.

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bale thrower into a thrower rack for small sqs' and tractor and loader for big sqs' with two big 20 ft racks to haul on 12 ton gears
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My vote went for "Other", since our stacker is home built and the bales are just a little too big to pick up by hand
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14 hay racks with two NH balers and seriously thinking of an accumulator system!!
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I have a thrower behind my baler. Still have to unload them by hand though, but it saves a lot of labor not having to handle the hay twice.
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We have two 15 bale Kuhns. This is our fourth year with them and have been well satisfied.
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I use a Highine 14 bale mover to pickup rd bales.One person can pickup 500 bales in a day if unloading on end of field.Some of the best money I have spent in my hay opperation.
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I have what they call a three bale accumulator for a 3x4 baler, it dumps two at a time. It works well because you can group the bales across the field more, or have the capacity to go to the end of the field and dump them. You travel across the field alot less.
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Check out the Bale Caddie 1200 and Bale Grabbers from Koyker Manufacturing in South Dakota Koyker Mfg..
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We use a Stinger.
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