Getting loaded! Stacking 160 small bales in 11.5 minutes..1069 New holland balewagon

[@garymac1124]

My brother and I ran custom hay stacking and can really appreciate what you're doing. It was always a competition to beat an old time of a load. I stacked 7 loads in an hour for 5 hours of 69 bales each. That was my record. Nice to be in field of nice hay and close stacks. This brings back some memories.

[@jlsmith6310]

I've never ran one myself but I've watched a lot of videos and been around a few in person and even though you were going a little faster than probably normally would, on account of the video and trying to make it look good, you are by far the best I've seen at running one. No wasted movements. Fast and efficient without making a bunch of mistakes. Make it look easy when it's not, you can tell you have done this a lot. Very nice video!

[@cheatinggravity173]

jlsmith6310 Thanks for the compliment. Yes I've been doing it for 26 years. Got my first machine when I graduated high school. A fellow wagon operator used to have me help him on some of his bigger jobs. He was always faster than me, and told me the secret is to slow down to the point you don't make any mistakes. The speed will come with muscle memory if you have good technique. Making mistakes costs way more time than just going slow. A little off topic here, but I noticed a comment that is gone now, the guy thought the bales were staged since they were so close together- had a hard time believing the windrows were that thick. Well with 1st cutting grass and alfalfa, and 16' windrows doubled, the bales really do get that thick. It's readily apparent in the vid if you look out in the field at the bales not picked up yet. It was a very good field.

[@Snowtruckdriver]

I used to put up 4000 bales a day with one when dad was doing 1000 acres alfalfa 4 cuttings a year out in washington.

[@cheatinggravity173]

@@Snowtruckdriver I miss those fields. All the big farmers around here have gone to big bales.

[@barefootbilly7026]

Wow, nice to see how you pack the tie, job welldone

[@robbybachmann332]

Well done sir. I timed myself this week just to see how long it would take. We have a 1069 gas powered stacker working in smaller fields and my best time was 9:02 to load. We make a little different stack with 40 “ bales.

[@cheatinggravity173]

Hey that's a pretty good time for filling up a load, not too far from what I'm doing. With 40" bales I assume they are the 16x18" bales? How many bales do you wind up with? I'd be curious to see how you tie. Have you taken any video?

[@robbybachmann332]

On the 7 layer I do one tie with 6 bales between and then 9 bales regularly. We do 14 by 18 bales. I don’t think the stack we build would be as stable as what you do but we dump in a hay shed with end and side walls 6 stacks wide so not as nessecary to do as many ties.

[@smcox1991]

And here I was thinking I'm pretty fast at picking hay and then I see this lol! This is just insane! I use pull type so can't go as fast as these self propelled and they're only 105 bales and it takes me about 15-18 minutes. This sure was entertaining and I have no idea how you never shot one of those bales underneath the first table but kudos to you! I'm also not that far away from you as I live in Durango just the other side of the mountain.

[@cheatinggravity173]

smcox1991 honestly that's pretty dam good speed for a pull type machine. Not only is the ground speed slower, but they are harder to run and the ergonomics aren't nearly as slick so I've got respect for anyone that can run one that fast.😎

[@smcox1991]

cheating gravity Thanks. I don't even have all the controls in the cab I only have the bale chute but would like to put all the controls in the cab but that setup is a pretty good chunk of change. Funny thing is we're not even that far apart I'm in Durango just on the other side of the mountain from you.

[@rempellegacyranch4965]

I'm around 10 minutes a load with a 1033 p/t kzbin.info/www/bejne/aWjNopqtgNx2hpY

[@cheatinggravity173]

Michael Rempel good job. That looks harder running the pull type. What part of the country is that?

[@cheatinggravity173]

smcox1991 Are you on highway 550 by chance? I used to live south of there during an 8 year hiatus from farming and would smile when I'd pass by the big fields of little bales.

[@ablenterprisesinc5590]

Very nicely done. It's a nice field to run in, that's for sure. The smaller bales are nice as well I didn't see a tach, but it sounds like about 1700 RPM? Of course you are winding it up a little when the second table trips.

[@cheatinggravity173]

I don't have a tach, so am not sure of the RPMs. I am running around in 2nd gear and low range in this vid, only shifting to high when the bales get a little thinner, and 3rd when just travelling. Once in a great while I'll have to shift to 1st gear, high range if the bales get super thick for a long while; otherwise I'll just clutch to get through a short thick spot.

[@ablenterprisesinc5590]

@@cheatinggravity173 I usually run 2 high until the 4th and then to low to save the rear end. We are running in different parts of the country, that's for sure. I shoot for 15 minutes. It's irrigated ground.

[@davidkimmel4216]

Interesting. Thanks

[@okum5879]

👍Great job😊

[@greggergen9104]

How much were the New Holland 1069 Stack Cruiser's new?

[@rickhicks7742]

I see your ground speed was a little fast and you mistacked a few bales as you drove. That looks like a good piece of equipment

[@cheatinggravity173]

Rick Hicks you're absolutely right, I was trying to go too fast and not paying attention to the bales coming in my chute so it jammed it up a little bit.

[@grantnelson8324]

Rick Hicks i

[@ffulkerth]

Atta boy. 11 mins is about right for a load. Not much room for improvement at that point, the decks on stacker would have to lift quicker for that to happen. I miss stacking bales.. Haven't done it in years. Largest stack i ever made was over 15k bales, (approx 93 loads) made a gigantic F in the field that could be seen from airplanes flying over top. ;) Your pickup arm is on the left side of the cab? (or is your video flipped?) Thank you for this video! -F

[@cheatinggravity173]

+ffulkerth The video was flipped. Using my phone and forgot to reverse the image.

[@AmandeepSingh-co2gy]

Good job

[@gerdesoto262]

Like the video but there is only one type of picture showing, get someone to help you with the camera to show more. And to long of the same thing gets boring fast.

[@cheatinggravity173]

No arguments here. This is just showing what can be done with what i had- I didnt even have a proper video camera haha... One of these days I'll get a better video up, and make a proper effort- maybe post some instructional stuff also showing what not to do (this kinda did that but it wasn't explained in the video).

[@william19882007]

Something is very wrong here...this isn't right...I've never seen a left hand pickup harobed..

[@cheatinggravity173]

New Holland did make them... a long long time ago, when they had no cab. Can't remember the model #. But in this case, the video is flipped. When I take video with my phone, it gives me the option to flip it so stuff doesn't look backwards. I didn't do that here. Funny, my friends from the west coast call bale wagons harrow beds. You must be from there.