side mounted bale elevator

[smcapstick]

l am working on a big bale version

Ah! That sounds quite funky

 

[roscoe erf]

Do u know where i might find one?

Australia just a wild stab in the dark

 

[timff]

Never have I seen the Kemper bale trailer or the flinger on the Fordson.....what works of the devil are they?!!
My experiences of small bale handling - I started young...at about 8
1: Pitch fork onto bale trailers. Sense of achievement when loaded
2: Cooper Balco which stacked 12 bales ready for two goes with a Perry loader. Useless on sloping ground as the bales all lay one way
3: Browns Buzzard flat 8 & Chillington squeezer trailer.
Sadly teamwork has largely left the field but we welcomed each tech advance as it came. The laughs and beers in the yard after an afternoon/evening pitching bales are great memories, but being the youngster I escaped the hard work by being allocated the driver

 

[Ley253]

Never have I seen the Kemper bale trailer or the flinger on the Fordson.....what works of the devil are they?!!
My experiences of small bale handling - I started young...at about 8
1: Pitch fork onto bale trailers. Sense of achievement when loaded
2: Cooper Balco which stacked 12 bales ready for two goes with a Perry loader. Useless on sloping ground as the bales all lay one way
3: Browns Buzzard flat 8 & Chillington squeezer trailer.
Sadly teamwork has largely left the field but we welcomed each tech advance as it came. The laughs and beers in the yard after an afternoon/evening pitching bales are great memories, but being the youngster I escaped the hard work by being allocated the driver

Me too, but filling in the ridge in the barn roof was another matter! The fact that black roof paint was the cheapest didnt help!

 

[timff]

I had forgotten the barn ridge. Especially 'warm' under the skylights!

 

[penntor]

I remember stacking small bales under the roof of the hay shed which had galvanised sheet roof. On a hot day it really hurt if your back touched the sheets.

 

[AftonShepherd]

A mate has this.

I'm never sure how I feel about it.

l am working on a big bale version

I realise now I read the messages out of sync but the above would be quite some sight lol.

 

[Red Fred]

Where I was a student, all the straw was small baled but rather than flat8 it, I had to bale it into one of those two wheeled sledges that were shaped like a triangle. When the sledge was filled to overflowing, I opened the back doors and left the bales in a jumbled windrow across the fields. "The Students" (originally from Oxford I believe)came every year for harvest and loaded all the bales by hand. They must have done the best part of 500acres and came back for the job each year even when they were no longer real students.

 

[Kiwi Pete]

I realise now I read the messages out of sync but the above would be quite some sight lol.

Wouldn't it though
Wouldn't want to be stood on the trailer when it was "raining hesstons"

 

[Ley253]

Wouldn't it though
Wouldn't want to be stood on the trailer when it was "raining hesstons"

Wouldnt want to be the trailer either!

 

[Red Fred]

Technically, doesn't it then become a ballista or trebuchet and fall under the Strategic Arms Limitation talks?

 

[mikep]

Would give a whole new meaning to the game 'bat the rat'

 

[glasshouse]

Where I was a student, all the straw was small baled but rather than flat8 it, I had to bale it into one of those two wheeled sledges that were shaped like a triangle. When the sledge was filled to overflowing, I opened the back doors and left the bales in a jumbled windrow across the fields. "The Students" (originally from Oxford I believe)came every year for harvest and loaded all the bales by hand. They must have done the best part of 500acres and came back for the job each year even when they were no longer real students.

Imagine oxford students doing that now?
How could they lift a bale one handed without a surgeon to remove the phone from the other hand.

 

[tomlad]

My 76 year old neighbour classes it all a ' facebooking ' anyone playing on there phone
Wow betide if u get caught facebooking on a shoot day
He won't even know what face book is .

 

[Dead Rabbits]

Spent a lot of time pulling bales off one of these. My family used to do about 25000 small squares this way. I used to do around 10000 for other people. Separates the the men from the chaff.

We used flatbed trucks. 160 bales per load. Two people stacking could load in 15 minutes. The loader tips down and can be pulled down the road behind the truck.

 

[Fordson1]

There were a couple of tractor mounted elevators in our area in the 70's. They were blue in colour and think both were the made by Ayrshire. Usually mounted on a small tractor, MF35 or the like. As a chap I was with my uncles, probably getting in the way as they lined up the allis chalmers bales so they were "longways" in the rows to suit theirs. Those elevators were mounted and hinged from a frame on the back or axle of the tractor. Can't remember which. The trailer was hooked on the tractor as normal. Picked up the bales in the field with the elevator angled to the ground and out to one side of the tractor. Angled up toward the rick in the shed to unload. Wish I had a photo.

Can't seem to find anything about the version I'm thinking of on the internet but google did find this!
https://thefarmingforum.co.uk/index.php?threads/mobile-bale-elevator.19927/
The picture isn't the one I'm thinking of, but close.

There are two "KP" versions for sale on the Irish done deal website.
https://www.donedeal.ie/farmservice...-mounted-small-square-bales-elevator/19048216

 

[jf850]

There were a couple of tractor mounted elevators in our area in the 70's. They were blue in colour and think both were the made by Ayrshire. Usually mounted on a small tractor, MF35 or the like. As a chap I was with my uncles, probably getting in the way as they lined up the allis chalmers bales so they were "longways" in the rows to suit theirs. Those elevators were mounted and hinged from a frame on the back or axle of the tractor. Can't remember which. The trailer was hooked on the tractor as normal. Picked up the bales in the field with the elevator angled to the ground and out to one side of the tractor. Angled up toward the rick in the shed to unload. Wish I had a photo.

Can't seem to find anything about the version I'm thinking of on the internet but google did find this!
https://thefarmingforum.co.uk/index.php?threads/mobile-bale-elevator.19927/
The picture isn't the one I'm thinking of, but close.

There are two "KP" versions for sale on the Irish done deal website.
https://www.donedeal.ie/farmservice...-mounted-small-square-bales-elevator/19048216

That link to Done deal is what I was talking about . 1981 I reckon the clearance sale was held near here with the KP one on the MF 65.