New work related toy!

[billybob_81067]

We got a new "used" bale wagon today. Has a whole whopping 150 engine hours on it. FREAKING ROCKS!

Anyways here's some pics for those of you who don't know what I'm talking about.



And another



I'm teaching that munchkin in the 2nd pic how to run it so I can just sit back and watch from now on.

Well I'm tired and need to go to bed so I can wake up in an hour or two and go bale some hay.

[geekwarrior]

sweet.....I worked at a feedstore delivering hay for about 5 years, never got to see one of those. We did get a squeeze though, to replace the old boom hay loader, and that thing was fun!

[PyRo]

It looks like a bus on crack.

[FooTemps]

... that is freaking awesome! lol

[Lohman446]

Anyone else notice the cockpit kinda looks like an afterthought?

[FooTemps]

Anyone else notice the cockpit kinda looks like an afterthought?

That's why its so awesome!

[Army]

I ran a stacker for a while, when I worked on a hay ranch. Big 'ol Allis-Chalmers. I think it was a 20ton stacker. Sure made bucking the bales a HELL of a lot easier

[billybob_81067]

It looks like a bus on crack.

Lol... on crack, some meth, and maybe some steroids too!

Lohman the cab on these stackers does always look like they just threw it on there last minute, but that's the way they've always been ever since the first stack wagons. They just built the machine so it could do its thing and then stuck the cab where there was some room. lol

I'm just kind of starting to get used to stacking with it. It's craziness! Trying to learn yesterday I was like a special ed. kid in a candy store... soo many buttons to push! You actually have to program in the stack pattern that you want it to do into the computer and then it will do it automatically.

It's so much nicer than our old bale 1049 super bale wagon. Now I've got A/C, an air ride seat, 5 speed Allison automatic transmission, 6.8L turbocharged diesel engine... Only thing wrong with it is there's no radio! There's a spot for one and all the wiring and speakers are there, the dealer just never installed one. My dad's gonna gripe about that before he writes the check. You'd figure if you just dropped a hundred grand on a piece of equipment it'd at least have a freakin stereo!

[billybob_81067]

sweet.....I worked at a feedstore delivering hay for about 5 years, never got to see one of those. We did get a squeeze though, to replace the old boom hay loader, and that thing was fun!

Are you talking about one of those hay loaders that squeeze the stack from the sides to grip the bales? I've heard of them, but never seen one before. We've got a hay grapple on a fork lift that sets down on top of the stack and picks up 18 bales at a time. Makes it nice for loading semi's and other trailers.

Army, I never even knew Allis Chalmers made a bale wagon. You should try and find a pic of that one and post it up!

[ojhspyro89]

It looks like a bus on crack.

Or a bus with a birth defect.

[Crighton]

Christ I could have used one of those !!!

Unloaded and stacked about a billion bales by hand for my grand parents dairy farm.

[Maggot6]

I help out a few times a week during the first and second cuts of hay for my friends farm...Every time I see a bale/bail of hay I feel like death. Working for 10+ hours lifting damn 60-80 pound bails one after another relentlessely makes you hate it....

[Army]

Army, I never even knew Allis Chalmers made a bale wagon. You should try and find a pic of that one and post it up!

Well, it was an Allis tractor, so I always figured it to have been an Allis stacker.....geez, it's been 30 years, so I might be wrong on the make

[Army]

I help out a few times a week during the first and second cuts of hay for my friends farm...Every time I see a bale/bail of hay I feel like death. Working for 10+ hours lifting damn 60-80 pound bails one after another relentlessely makes you hate it....

Wuss!

Come on down here, our alfalfa bales can go 130-150lbs!

[FooTemps]

Wuss!

Come on down here, our alfalfa bales can go 130-150lbs!

Those weigh more than I do...