Stacking Hay in South Dakota (HESSTON STAKHAND)

Stacking Hay in South Dakota (HESSTON STAKHAND)
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Video of a South Dakota Farm putting up Alfalfa Hay with a Hesston Stakhand. In this video I explain the equipment and everything that is going on. Putting up hay this way is not as popular as it once was as Round Balers and large Square Balers having taken its place.
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[@dice3704]

My German heart had a skip when I saw a machine I never saw before. Lovely video !

[@kathump2]

learned something new today, never heard or saw a hay stacker before. Thanks for teaching!

[@onionfriend9799]

They were cutting edge technology in the 1970s

[@bryanginder5903]

They were used in the Midwest for corn stalks mostly

[@wendellbell6164]

My dad would have loved these set ups in the late 50s in South Dakota. He used a Ferguson 30 and pushed hay in stacks. Then he talked about a stacker. Great video. Thanks

[@bryanginder5903]

@Bill Taylor bill, I ment in the Midwest we used them for corn stalks not hay like they used them for out west!

[@barbarian6850]

Me also, never seen one of these before, never new they existed, but I do live in the UK so that's my excuse, thanks Mike for the educational video.

[@paulprigge1209]

Trust me you don't want one lol I remember from the old days

[@JamesTyreeII]

I appreciate the way that you narrate the videos telling us what we are seeing and what’s coming up

[@rayrice4008]

Wow i have never seen this type of baling. Amazing video. Thanks for the trip back in history

[@firionrazar3797]

Thank you for showing these machines! I remember seeing eastern copies of hay stackers in my childhood but never saw one in action again.

[@davegdm954]

its cool to see a newer tractor with an older implement being used. a good mix of new and old tech

[@jessemaier8681]

Thank you for the video! I love watching and hearing this. We used a 10 with a 966 for corn stalks in south western Wisconsin. 1456 with a 3 point mover and a grapple at the top. Backed those stacks in the mow above the milking barn for bedding. Great job!

[@farmhandmike]

The good old days for sure.

[@tankerbill1431]

Thanks for bringing back some memories! We used a Hesston 30 on a John Deere 4430 here in Michigan in the 80s. Save a lot of time and labor. We put covers on them to keep the rain and snow off of them.

[@corgraveland4874]

Thanks Mike, very interesting to see the full stakhand harvest line by Hesston.

[@5partan100]

I’ve never seen baling like that before. Awesome piece of equipment. Great video thanks 👍🏽

[@tomhill4765]

Thanks Mike for the video. I have seen the Stacker, but usually sitting unused. Now I know how it works.

[@kenyockey725]

I have never seen a hay stacker in operation before. Thank you for sharing. Very efficient machine.

[@tucobenedicto109]

Mike love this video, the camp i went to was a farm and had hesston hay square bailers. Love that smell. they now make round bales and the Farmall equipment is case IH now. Love the old farmall! My dad took a picture of the farmer driving cooked corn in pots that were on the equip trailer from the plow of the 4 wheel Farmall. Both have passed now. Never forget the smell of fresh cooked corn and freshly cut hay. That aNd walking throught the cow field every day for breakfast lunch and activities! I also slept in an old chicken coop converted to living quarters!

[@ruffnutz71]

Today I learned of the existance of the International 666 , Ive never seen or heard of one before so thx for that Mike. I used to own an International 660 back in my farming days , it was a solid old tractor . Cheers from Australia.

[@dougpekrul6137]

In 1974and 1975, I operated one of the first 60 Hesston stacker and mover system, I put up 450 hay bales and 300 straw bales all summer. We fed 800 plus Angus cattle on the farm. We used a 806 International tractor hooked up to it.Doug

[@larrydartel1610]

Another great video, waiting for the in-depth scrape yard video,. Hope to see some farmer fabrication modification that was done👍

[@rauloropeza7496]

Thank you for your videos Mike Less

[@ndtschau]

Wonderful pictures! Thanks a lot for the video! 😊👍🏻

[@marchindy]

Thanks Mike I learned something new today. Never saw them where I grew up at or where I live now, great video.

[@rburli]

Thanks for the great video, read about them, seen pictures of them, but never seen one in operation until now.

[@robertdaly9036]

Never seen this done before, thanks for sharing FHM.. 👍👍

[@vernt4583]

Great 👍 videos Mr Mike amazing how much our farmers have adjusted to the changes in their system s

[@craigsimon935]

Great video! Good Explanation. We had a JD 200 (same size) that we used until we could not get parts for them and then nobody made these as everybody had gone round bale. My brother and I used to put up 100 acres a day - me knocking it down 3 days ahead of him and he picked it up. No raking unless it got rained on. We preferred the JD because of a more round top but I noticed on the 30B model Hesston rounded their top more. Was better for wind resistance. We placed ours in rows of 11 and had a chain mover on a truck that was 12' wide. He would back in from the side and could get 6 stacks on if he had one to push up against. Then he could go 40 mph - it was South Dakota, the stacks were all pre-tested to 40+ mph by the time you moved them.

[@sergiokozhokar4112]

I love how you explain about how and what things are. God bless you brother Mike it's always nice watching your Videos On KZbin.

[@jimmymason8259]

Started raking hay for a man in east texas when i was 12 years old, he was running two 60 stackers, i was busy trying to keep a window in front of two 60s with a 9 foot rake pulling it with a 135 massey. He pulled one of those 60s with a 5000 ford believe it or not, he called that ford little Rooster. Black smoke would be rollin out of her. His wife pulled the other one with a 8600 . Good times. That was 1972.

[@briand5521]

Cool hay stacker , never seen it before , always fun to see something new/old

[@leeperfarms5723]

great video mike, love seeing them old stackers.

[@Spotteroo]

Awesome. My late father worked for Hesston UK '74-'78 and Opico UK prior to that. I remember him having sales brochures on the Stackhand and Stack mover as well as the mower conditioners, balers and both pull type and self propelled foragers. Great to see them working but I don't think any came to the UK but round balers and big square balers really took off.

[@thebigkahuna2753]

Mike, I love these hay cutting videos, the smell of all that fresh cut grass must be awesome !!

[@InjunOutdoors]

WOW! Not seen one of those since the 80's! Ran one in the summer of 81 Yes, cab makes a difference!

[@brucebaker4462]

Mike you do the best farming and machinery videos keep up the good work.

[@markreetz1001]

Great video Mike. I've seen a few of the stackers over the years, but I never knew how they transported them. Pretty cool operation.

[@scruffy6151]

When I lived in North Dakota one of the farmers I worked used the stack mover for round bales. They would load the bales with a tractor and loader then take it back to the farm. Then let the mover unload the bales it worked great just back up the last pile of bales and let the hydualic do the rest. A friend of mine from North Dakota said they used a stacker and mover on wheat that was real short.

[@landerson1012]

Same here when I lived in NW MN. The larger stack mover did move a house on a 30 mile drive. I ended up working for the farmer whose dad did that, and the house came from a neighbor's place of my dad.

[@JamesTyreeII]

@@landerson1012 did the moved house get damaged?

[@landerson1012]

@@JamesTyreeII It was in livable condition. I worked for them for 4 years and the house was solid. The Farmhand mover was just about identical to the one that was used to move the house.

[@JamesTyreeII]

@@landerson1012 huh. Fabulous!

[@toyotahilux2]

Very interesting and something completely new to me

[@stmcelroy4829]

We use to play on them as kids lots of fun my Dad and uncle used to have the 60 A model. Thanks Mike In Alberta.

[@jeangibson5680]

Very interesting, never saw these before, thanks for showing!

[@scotts4769]

I really enjoy good honest hard work. I could sit here and watch it all day.

[@rodcody7278]

In shorts and sandals no less

[@onionfriend9799]

Thanks for this great farm video of an old school hay operation. Where I farm in southeast Colorado the Hesston Stakhand was the dominant method of putting up alfalfa until about 25-30 years ago when 4x4 balers replaced them. In this area and in easter Colorado it was almost exclusively the BIG 60A and 60B models that were used. They were fun to run so long as the wind wasnt going the same direction as the windrows

[@farmhandmike]

I'm told there's a farm around Dodge City Kansas that still runs 6 Stakhand 60's.

[@onionfriend9799]

Yes I know that farm. Still some 60Bs running in the Cimmaron Kansas area too. In the late 90s and early 2000s we used three Hesston 60Bs behind a pair of 8950 Magnums and an 8920 Magnum. Put up a lot of hay in a day with that crew

[@JamesTyreeII]

@@onionfriend9799 Oooo! 8900 Case IH Magnum boxcar tractors!😍

[@onionfriend9799]

James Tyree the 8900 series were really a good quality product. We got our moneys worth when we bot those

[@beytibilgec3744]

Great video thanks for sharing

[@chrisgossman6512]

I remember this stacker in your previous videos. The cows that you dropped stacks in the barn had a hay day... Cool contraption Mike. Thanks again for sharing.

[@Budd56]

Thanks always wondered how those things worked 👍👍✌️

[@scottpykare801]

Enjoyed the footage Mike. I remember your video of your stacker doing corn stocks. 👍👍

[@christopher6004]

Grew up with a Hesston 30A w/ a JD 4020, we had a shared hay mover with the neighbor. We were able to haul three stacks at a time. My brother and I would catch hell from the old man riding on the middle stack when he was haulin hay home. Greased it everyday and never any major problems with it.

[@patrickmorgan3326]

Fascinating, I had never seen this equipment before. Thanks. Here in New England we had to do that by hand.

[@davidstout5883]

There were 3 larger cattle operations in north east Texas used the Hesston 30 stack hand. Late 70s and early 80s they were replaced with the round baler. I asked one of the owners which he liked best round or stack. He liked the big stack less labor less bales more cattle. The round bale was better for smaller tractor. The stacks were not good in wet ground and we have alot. I would like to have one now. I have a round baler and had several for 39 years. I think I would like a change. I have bigger tractors now and not wrap cost so mutch. When you put 600 to 1000 rolls a year to feed for your self. The round and big square is still better to haul and sell.

[@christopheleblanc9175]

cool never seen these before ,tks

[@charleshagenbuch6078]

We used a 3 chain John Deere version of the mover. We also moved 3 round bales at a time with it. The 30 used a cylinder at each corner instead of the scissor lift. The cylinders could be bent if the stack was too lopsided. The flails were fun to replace as well.

[@andywintz959]

I had an uncle in NE Nebraska use one of these on his dairy farm. Great video Mike!

[@patrickburgmeier7902]

We used to have a mover with track attachment. For added traction when being pulled by a pickup. The tracks worked when the load chains moved. Worked well. The stackers we had were 30As

[@verdagarner5112]

Wow haven’t seen one those small stackers for awhile, that’s what we used on our ranch 60years ago great video

[@straightpipeacres6365]

Nice Mike!!! My cousins have a haystacker like that. I dont think they used it in a few years but it was kinda cool to watch as a kid back in the day. Brought back some good memories bud!!

[@charlesjenkins8078]

Never saw this done before. Thanks for the video

[@AlpenagroTv]

I`m from austria and i never saw a machine like this before, like your vids mike! :-)

[@bwwatson16]

This is very similar to the way cotton modules are built by module builders and transported by module trucks. You should do a video on cotton harvest.

[@marypatten9655]

Wow. Once again seeing hay stacked right. Can remember as a kid seeing the big stacks of hay. No bailing back then and very little equipment.

[@brucekoster9253]

I remember dad bucking a lot of loose alfalfa with his old MM & Farmhand....always having to stop and replace a ''tooth'' with another 2 x 4. Had 2-3 guys on the stack with pitch forks. He would have thought he died & went to heaven if he'd had a Stakhand back then! Times on the farm have sure changed....

[@michellebraun5107]

Great video, use be a lot of those around here in the 70's and 80's. About half 30's and half were 60's. Never seen a 10 in person. Around here they move five or six at a time on truck movers.

[@joshualuissaldivar8069]

cool video, thank you for sharing..Hello from Corpus Christi, Tx

[@tabortollefson]

I had no idea people were still stacking hay. I used to love riding with dad in the TW-10 pulling the stacker. When my dad mowed the lawn, my brother and I would make "stacks" in a plastic pail filling and compacting like the stacker would. We had the Stackhand 10 and the same mover. By the time I was old enough to help with hay, we'd transitioned to small bales so I put a lot of small bales in the barn in my teenage years. We had a neighbor who was making small round bales with a 50s era Alice Chalmers Rotobaler well into the 90s.

[@alexanderwilson1806]

Been wait for this video Smashing video Mike. And happy new year to you and your family

[@farmhandmike]

Happy new year!

[@ArmpitStudios]

That’s pretty neat. Not having to mess with filling twine or problematic knotters is kinda nice.

[@jeffmcnulty4123]

The old Hesston stackers, wow. They stacks looked awful, but once they got a crust and "sealed", you would break them up in January and they were as fresh an green inside as June. They cows relished the hay and surprisingly there was little spoilage, it was fast work with little or no labor input to make maximum tonnage, and one man could make a year's worth of forage to carry a large cow here thru the winter. You had to "fence off" the stacks if you didn't move them so the cows didn't tear them apart and use the for bedding, but with proper management, one man could winter several hundred cows, make sure the water source was free flowing and sleep till noon, until calving in Late February, and there was nesting bedding from the leftover crusts of the fed stacks. It was a great system. as today, Hesston, (Massey Ferguson) was/is a great innovator and front leader in forage harvesting systems. That stack system is still successfully in use today, with alot of rehab equipment. Maybe a good look at re- engineering and fresh design might resurrect a terrific labor saving concept, and equipment input saving. Two major points of profit increase in the cow/calf operations still in business today. Just a thought.

[@user-sd1bx9pi4e]

Yes back in the day i was a young teenager i stacked a lot a lot of loafs with a hesston 60 A then moved them also put the feeder toung on the mover to feed cattle in the feed lot and out on the pasture with it one man can feed a lot of prime ribs with this set up ! It worked pretty fine the whole haying crew of 3 could put up a lot of hay a international 1066 hydro worked great as you could just creep along or go faster acording to field conditions thanks for the rembers

[@karllangner1579]

Verry interresting !

[@FordMan-lf8ns]

Never saw that before It was very interesting.

[@TractorCambodia]

Nice Machine

[@ollie-lk5dx]

Great job bringing the old way to the present.

[@joemalone9380]

love stakwagens and whatever the mover thing thanks for uploading. 👍👍

[@jhanlarosh6620]

We run 2 30a’s from 1974 to 2008 mostly alfalfa , brome ,wheat straw , native grass round baler’s are a lot faster. Nice video always wanted to have a video of our machine running.

[@thr8061]

I remember seeing hay stacks like this growing up in NE WI in the 70s. I believe a couple guys had Hesston StakHands. My dad eventually bought a 5' x 6' Hesston round baler instead.

[@LaHaSi4208]

Never seen this! Awesome Video! 😳👍👍👍

[@peanutsmith1462]

That’s a first for me never knew they Existed thanks for Sharing

[@harvest585]

Excellent Mike

[@henrymichaelwilson8107]

Hello there. We used to make Hay in June it was the best. We bailed with a New Holland hay linener. Small bails of course and hand loading trailers to take in to the barn and stack. The Hay was still green 12 months later. I hated hay making and still do.

[@jickmccivy6327]

A while back some archaeologist found a house built with hay bales covered with mud out in Arizona over 4,000 years old .I look at these Bales you could build a Massive structure with bales this big , heck even if just poured concrete over one then took out the hay , really like the content keep it coming ,

[@rafalzareba2292]

Nie widząlem takiej maszyny jeszcze. Pozdrawiam serdecznie.

[@emadeldinhessain3272]

Great.

[@jimpolk]

Never seen a machine like that Hesston hay stacker. Wow.

[@dlarta7265]

nice work. enjoyed it

[@bradsellnow3665]

Was visiting with a Hesston engineer who worked on developing the Hesston big square baler told me that the Hesston stack hand was the backbone of building the Hesston haying company.

[@leesteele9290]

I made a lot of hay and corn stalks stacks with a Heston 30 , older than the 30 A , in the mid to late sixties early seventies !!! No cab on a 4020 ate a lot of chaff and dirt !!!

[@keithrobinson1331]

Your a heck of a man for doing that with no cab saw a guy doing it in corn stover this year and there was stuff blowing everywhere

[@jhanlarosh6620]

I also ran one on cab 4020 and the dirtiest was oat straw had to have dust mask and googles not fun

[@JohnDoe-gq8tt]

Lee How did you feed the pile of hay out Did you take them back to a feeding area or let the cows go to the pile of hay

[@leesteele9290]

@@JohnDoe-gq8tt We had feeding gates ,like a big round bale feeder that swung open and a stack mover to move them in with . Worked pretty good didn't waste to much that way ,this was all before big round balers!!

[@khasankhalilov7901]

Sizga mazza. I'm from Uzbekistan Tashkent and Samarcand. Hello 👋

[@Snowtruckdriver]

My Dad had 2 of the 60 models and one mover. He did custom alfalfa processing for a big dairy out west in Pasco Washington. We put up a lot of hay in those days.

[@NaTech94]

*I recall seeing this contraption in your earlier videos. Those cows you stacked in the barn sure had a blast with it. Pretty neat gadget, Mike. Thanks once more for sharing.*

[@novakcustomharvesting6930]

We have a stacker identical to that one. Bought it for 600 in excellent condition. We stack corn fodder with it in south west Wisconsin.

[@brucekoster9253]

Seeing the record prices being paid for low hour 30-35 year old tractors...it's hard to believe you can buy a decent piece of equipment for that. You got a deal!

[@banditman0000]

best most efficient way to hay ever created we used the big ones for years and years just stopped last year do to stacker wore out beyond repair. Hesston rep told us the only reason they stopped making these is that they were so good that they hardly ever broke down so they didnt make enough money from repair work.

[@miguelamaya6246]

We kove watching farmers pick up the crop or plant... thank you for sharing your video...

[@5partan100]

Makes you hungry for bread watching this , not a good idea to watch these videos so late at night 😂

[@mikemcelrath7721]

Mike we had Heston's in south Carolina on the upstate in the 70s 80s now all we grow are factories and houses they were a good product

[@sandyrobinson5573]

UK. another good vid Mike. I have not seen lose hay handled this way afore but the system seems to work well.

[@dougschmitii6165]

I worked for a guy when I was in high school that used a model 10 in cornstalks. We pulled it with it Deere 4440. He also had the Hesston 3pt mover to move them with. Good times

[@ljkck3578]

Growing up dad put up our hay with a 30 behind a 2094 Case. He parked them in groups of 3 real close and perfectly in line. We moved them with a Lahman mover that hauled 3 at a time, crossways from the one in the video. When doing grass hay before the stack was finished dad would go through uncut grass to put a "cap" on the stack, as it would help keep the wind from blowing it off. Never had that issue with alfalfa.

[@ljkck3578]

Neighbors had a 60, it had a tine pickup with a blower instead of a flail pickup. The spout would also sway back and forth to evenly distribute the hay across the width of the stacker.

[@arnomrnym6329]

interesting. Thx 👍🏾😎

[@johnowen6507]

i had a neighbor that pulled a 60 up until the mid 90's. i thought he was the last guy on earth destroying hay with one of those things ha ha! great video mike looks nice there.

[@AgricultureTechUS]

Construction companies benefit greatly from the advancements in heavy machinery technology.

[@coreypoppen516]

I watched my parents neighbor use his WD or WD45 with a Farmhand loader with the hay bucker attachment stack hay this summer. I reminded me when my Dad would put the hay bucker attachment on the old Dual loader and go help him.

[@57fitter]

A beef farmer near us had a Hesston stacker, but the smaller one. He was about the only one to have one around, climate is just too wet for stacks unless they're under roof. I might say, NC indiana. Thanks for posting, Mike!

[@culmalachie]

Man, Mike, that was really good - just as though you'd taken me over there. I'm glad you made this video -and sufficient detail ... that I could make my own ? I still think that, for many UK Mixed farmers, this would have been a BETTER solution to plastic string / net/ film on 4x4ft round bales . Of course, in Europ, some of us do use SELF-LOADING forage wagons which can either chop past stationary knives, or not chop, Straw, Hay or fresh silage grass as the day demands. - but I don't think I would leave their load of hay or straw outdoors in our weather. I do like the layering of the fodder. ... a new modernised Versatile machine perhaps ? Happy New Year to you all.

[@steve2ish]

We ran the john deere 200 stacker... & a Heston 3 stack mover