STACKING HAY IN SE SD WITH HESSTON 30B

Out on the Goodale Farm with our Hesston 30B Stackhand.
Hay stacking is a lost art of making hay.
Drone footage of making and unloading 1 stack.
Video is a little jumping. Sorry, its my first flight if the year.

[@onionfriend9799]

WOW this is something you don’t see anymore and isn’t on the internet. This is how we put up hay in southern Colorado for most of my life. Last time I used a Hesston Stakhand was 2009. I ran 5 60B Stakhands putting up 4 cuttings a year on 2000 acres. Running them was an art form. Great video! Thank you for making it

[@valleyviewacres9120]

That old machine brings back some memories! Before dad bought one of the first round balers that was the “go to” we had a McKee stacker that could carry three of them than we’d put them in a line like what this fella has them stacked in the middle of the field in your feed lot. Dad take a sapling poplar tree sharpen one end than tie a electric wire to the end hanging it with twine. Shove the sharpen end into the stack and feed the cattle under the wire. Tractor hardly ever started to feed cows. Which now is something I wish I could claim LOL

[@petepeeff5807]

Thanks for the video, Have seen a few of these at auctions over the years. Never saw one in the field working though.

[@thebedtimecomposer831]

I love seeing older equipment at work

[@sampsonsfarm6636]

Very well don footage love that old iron still working. I have a hesston 10

[@davidknudson7621]

Sat in JD4430 hooked to a Heston when I was11 years old. Had to watch for Chad Around the belts but was a good nachine. Brings me back to 1980.😁

[@farmcentralohio]

great video, make more if you can. include the mover. need more videos of these so the younger folks know what it is.

[@jamesgoodale4497]

Will be trying to video moving stacks back to the feed lot this fall.

[@robbass1521]

Great job thanks for posting I'd watch an ad to see this vid

[@koryleague8833]

Pretty cool. Havent seen one of these work in years, you see alot pf them in the tree row now.

[@skoalring83]

Great video

[@wrknonitnow8711]

I stacked with a jd 200 for my dad when i was a teenager...i still own the mover but the stacker rotted away...it did a good job...

[@ramshackleshack751]

We had a 200 also. For cornstalks it was the best

[@culmalachie]

That was good! Time n Motion study - Driver has to keep his mind on the job as stack gets full. I've been aware of these machines since the 60's - seems like they never took on for the UK market - and until recently this is now only the 2nd video I've seen about them at work. When you see modern day Round bales of Hay left outside all winter ....shudder.- the total losses... Question: What is approx Weight of one of those stacks? - Still looks like a viable method of hay collection - and quicker than the 4ft round bales , cheaper than the Large format square bales etc etc. Many thanks for posting. Slàinte Mhath!

[@jamesgoodale4497]

A loaf out of this machine would weigh between 3 and 4 ton. Stacks keep way bettler the round bales because the compressed layers and rounded top shed rain and snow.

[@kp14year1]

Did that back in the late 70,s was keen on weaving the shoot up and down a bunch . made for a solid stack. bread loaf....

[@farmhandmike]

Awesome Video

[@jamesgoodale4497]

Thank you!

[@bbruce995]

looks like the old mckee hay stacking machine , just a much smaller version

[@charleshagenbuch6078]

Drug a 30 around behind an open station 656 ihc. Dusty job and made her snort. Flat tires were a real pain if you had it nearly full. I wonder where SE SD your at and what mix of hay that is?

[@jamesgoodale4497]

It is 100% alfalfa.

[@hughmarcus1]

Really interesting machine. Does it chop the hay or just blow it inside. How difficult is it to move that stack?

[@jamesgoodale4497]

The machine has a rotor with hammers/paddles to pick up the hay and blow it into the dog house. It can also be used to chop crop like corn stalks. You wouldn't want to try to green chop hay as it would make a mess out the spout and would not blow into the house house properly. It also would root very quickly and would be very heavy and difficult to unload.

[@jamesgoodale4497]

If you put up the hay in the proper condition it does not chop it or even knock many of the lraves off, but if the hay getts too dry, it wil pulverize it to powder. You stack hay at a higher moisture level than you van bale it. In the future I will post a video of moving the stacks to the feed lot. It does take a specialized implement.

[@billholmgren5701]

I started with a 30 a I think then the international 1486 we pulled it with caught on fire so we scraped it out and bought a used 60 a. Spent a lot of time on the hay stacker. Too many stories. Some good some not so good.

[@piperdoug428]

makes a nice tight loaf, might get popular again with people wanting to feed out in the field for nutrient management

[@andylieffring3987]

I had the same thought, seems like these would be ideal for bale grazing

[@ronloomis8245]

Did not know anyone still done hay that way.

[@morganreeder109]

Looks like a well maintained stacker. My grandpa had a 60a stackhand that fed the hay into a fan to throw it up on top of the stack. Then the spout swung back and forth slowly to try to keep the stack even. KZbin doesn't seem to have any video of one of those. I don't think there were very many of them sold. It was supposed to make a 6 ton loaf, but it was usually only 4 and a half ton. When the first 4x4 balers came out he went to those pretty quick.

[@jamesgoodale4497]

It is. Used every year on 3 cuttings of hay. I think what you are talking about was the original model 60. Different type of feeding system than the A's and B's. The hydraulics on the roof were not as strong. I still some of the 60's sitting in groves.

[@morganreeder109]

I went back and looked at my dad's old slides scanned on my computer. It was definitely a 60A with the stronger hydraulics on the roof. If there was a way to upload a picture to this reply I would.

[@nickkercheval2704]

My dad sold a bunch of these in Virginia as a sales rep for a JD dealer. Round balers killed the market for them.

[@paulsinner7851]

James Goodale ,,,,, do these loafs still need to be ground up for feeding ?

[@jamesgoodale4497]

No. You can tear into the stacks with a grapple and bucket an feed as loose hay. Or grind them to mix in a feed wagon.

[@paulsinner7851]

@@jamesgoodale4497 Thank you for the reply

[@mjp5429]

Used to know a guy that put up corn stalks with one of these.

[@jamesgoodale4497]

We also see will do corn stalks as well depending on the fall.

[@opictia]

Big loaf of bread! 😁

[@randykroells8049]

I never see them stackers anymore, are they still manufactured?

[@jamesgoodale4497]

Use to be a machine shop in KS that still made them in the 90's, but I think they closed.

[@cedarcreek1564]

How many pounds (average) of hay are in a stack?

[@jamesgoodale4497]

In a stack of this size I would estimate 4 ton.

[@cedarcreek1564]

@@jamesgoodale4497 How about with the 60 series?

[@jamesgoodale4497]

@@cedarcreek1564 between 5 and 6 ton. A 60 is only longer, not wider or taller, and depending on the hay volume, conditions and tractor hp some guys would have trouble filling the back end of a 60.

[@pelyor2413]

Ok I guess if you have plenty of spare time .

[@alp723]

And After

[@jeffandjanebelstra182]

Have been stacking fodder with jd 100 stacker for over 40 years in sw Wisconsin. For some reason we now have three of them.