Baling hay

[Tristan]

Borrowed this off twitter thought it was worth a share with the rest of you. These are of Coolmore stud in Ireland baling hay credit for the photos go to @paulawilliamss off of twitter

 

[General-Lee]

Have fun picking up the the stacks in the 2nd shot :/ with a grab!!

 

[Shutesy]

What on earth is the point of those bale collectors they are just making a bloody mess!! Surely a flat 8 sledge behind each one would be better?

 

[Andy26]

What on earth is the point of those bale collectors they are just making a bloody mess!! Surely a flat 8 sledge behind each one would be better?

It looks like someone with an engineering background actually thought they were a good idea?

 

[Badshot]

Nice pictures but talk about inventing work, there must be hundreds of old flat 8's kicking around

 

[Tristan]

They made 8500 bales in the first picture and 27500 in the second. A flat 8 and a 48/56 bale squeeze would be the way forward.

Tristan

 

[roscoe erf]

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looks like organised chaos

 

[roscoe erf]

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is that not the new bale bandit

 

[Andy26]

is that not the new bale bandit

Bandits 'value' range

 

[Tristan]

looks like organised chaos

That's the Irish chaos for ye.

Tristan

 

[Getnthair]

Made 14,000 bales of hay/year (for barn drying) with collectors like these. Think the idea was that the bales weren't dragged along the ground - as in older drag sledges - less damage to strings, no soil contamination. BUT bales were usually twisted into all shapes by falling onto each other.

Bales were then hand-built into "stooks" or stacks for 17 bale transporters. Worst thing was breaking into the heap to sort out bales before building them into stacks.

Shortly after getting collectors we moved onto flat-8's. Nowadays don't touch a bale of any sort....

 

[Stoxs]

ohh they are bale collectors, i though it was a flat 8 sledge with a massive block up!!

10 pack is the way to go with conventional bales, 120/160 in a stack then trans stacker run and stack them in the shed!

 

[multi power]

dont think there are many flat 8 set ups in ireland

 

[Baling Hay]

dont think there are many flat 8 set ups in ireland

I think there is plenty of flat 8's in Ireland, we used to always use one and our neighbours.

 

[multi power]

I think there is plenty of flat 8's in Ireland, we used to always use one and our neighbours.

i only once seen a flat 8 in ireland, that was about 20 years ago

 

[Baling Hay]

i only once seen a flat 8 in ireland, that was about 20 years ago

If you came to our area you would have found about 10 of them in a couple of miles.