Stacking Hay with a Hesston 30B - June 2019

See how we put up hay here on the ranch in South Dakota!
Although our boss did recently buy a round baler, most of our hay is still put up with Hesston 30B
stack hands.

[@dougpekrul6137]

I run one of the first 60 balers that put out 5 ton of hay looking like a loaf of bread. The mover trailer had a live royal deck with hydraulic tracks on the back when you tilted the trailer, it walked under the trailer as the live deck moved the stack onto the trailer. I put up 500 hay stacks all summer and 300 straw stacks. Theies stacks fed about 900 head Angus country New Norway A B About in the 70s

[@johnmccaughan4195]

Thanks for sharing. Never seen that machine work before.

[@El_Transportacoches_33]

Looks like a horse trailer in the moment that opens the gates.

[@charleslambert7523]

Heston built three different models of the Stakhand a 10 , a 30, and a 60. I can not remember the actual size and weight of each but they were really good machines especially for cattle operations. I’m from Indiana and we used a Stakhand 10 it made a 3000 pound stack, bailed fescue clover even corn fodder, a good concept. The one drawback wash you need a larger tractor to handle the weight and pto speed.

[@farmcentralohio]

great video, thanks for taking the time to make it. i see in another comment someone wants to know how you move them, guess you'll have to make a video of that as well :) tell your boss I hope he keeps those things around and at least does a little hay that way, so cool to see it

[@arthurdewith7608]

all fall apart if I move them and why

[@charleslambert7523]

Arthur Dewith when starting the bale, you fill the front first so the hood is not fully up, as the front is filling it is also put hay in the rest of pile in a weaving manor,. When done properly it will be a tight bale and rather difficult to separate by hand.

[@dagleyranch]

We finally got a video done showing how we haul the stacks. here's the KZbin link to the video. It's on our channel. kzbin.info/www/bejne/q327fWlvbtSYaZY

[@smileytmroper]

Pretty good looking stacks. We still run a 60.

[@craigsimon935]

Nice looking stacks!

[@delprice3007]

Amazing green hay!

[@SimplifiedPiano]

That’s fun to watch... cool deal

[@robmiller2919]

How do they feed these without a lot of waste?

[@kopenhagenkid]

Great video how u optician up your stacked hay

[@PineValleyDigital]

Very interesting video! Have never seen that kind of hay machine before here in North East Oregon. How do you get that monster bale to the barn? :)

[@dagleyranch]

We haul 3 of them behind a tractor, on a trailer with conveyer chains for loading and unloading.

[@PineValleyDigital]

@@dagleyranch Thanks!

[@theGovnr1]

@@dagleyranch very interesting, I would love to see video of that operation

[@dagleyranch]

I finally got a video of how we haul the stacks. It's on our KZbin channel here's a link. kzbin.info/www/bejne/q327fWlvbtSYaZY

[@PineValleyDigital]

@@dagleyranch Thank You so much, that was a very informative video! The wife (a farm girl) and I sat there watching with our jaws agape repeating "I've never seen anything like that!"

[@scottsteel2334]

Is that dry hay you are doing or silage hay with that Hesston?

[@dagleyranch]

It is dry.

[@MrPummi88]

Aren't these pretty instabile?

[@stevebrundige]

How much does one stack weigh?

[@dagleyranch]

3000-4500 lbs depending on if what kind of hay you're putting up.