HARVESTING HAY BALES

Big Tractor Power is out in the field with a two New Holland 1069 Stack Cruisers that automatically pick up and stack 160 14x18 hay bales at a time. This Western New York hay operation is harvesting its crop with three JOHN DEERE 348 balers powred by a JOHN DEERE 8295R, JOHN DEERE 8130 and JOHN DEERE 8300 tractor.

This video shares the hay baling procress from baling to collecting and unloading stacks of hay rhe barn with big farm machinery.

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[donaldmckie]

Wish we had a stacker growing up, my cousins and myself were the stacker and unloader . Hard work but the best of times

[Snowtruckdriver]

My Dad did custom Haying in the late 60's out in Washington State. As a family we cut, baled and stacked a thousand acres of Alfalfa 4 cuttings a year for a farmer that migrated up from Texas. My sister cut the hay with a new John Deere 880 Swather (hundred acres a day). My mother, Brother and Dad baled at night with the dew on with 3 John Deere 214 model wire tie balers and I stacked all the hay with a New Holland Bale wagon. This video brought back a lot of memories

[gilgandra]

No music, Just working sounds. Loved it. You get it right... Thank you 👍

[billkraemer]

That was a great little video and well worth the time. No goofy voice over, just straight to the point. Those machines are crazy efficient. My dad’s uncle had a small ranch around Barstow back in the 70s. They used an old Case for cutting, a New Holland bailer that spat out 3 different sized bails at any given time - it’s choice - and an elevator attached at the side of a 1928 Rio cement truck converted to flat bed, towed by a 36’ Deere - I think model B. I was very young so I was the autopilot in the Rio. To say they were poor is an understatement. May God Bless the family farmer. It can be a difficult and unforgiving life.

[farmerthatflies]

I grew up in Wyoming in the early to mid seventies and we always put up a f-ton of square bale alfalfa hay. I was maybe 7 at the most when I started getting involved so too little and puny to load the bales on the truck so I spent many many days every summer on a farm all 460 and an IH baler. 231 iirc I was so small I had to grab the steering wheel with both hands and stand on the clutch to get it in gear 😊. I guess it never occurred to me that it was hard constant work, I suppose I thought that everyone on the planet lived like we did, just didn’t know better. Looking back at them and the way the world is now, I wouldn’t change a thing and I wouldn’t have it any other way

[wcooman]

Always wanted 1 of those Stack Cruisers. Yet another piece of equipment I couldn't talk my dad into buying. Guess he figured since he had me for the manual labor, no need for one. 😂

[MikeBrown-iipt]

It's been years since I've seen anyone running small bales! I remember my dad and grandpa hiring several of my high school football team mates to help us run our 80lb bales. They always thought I was crazy for wearing long sleeve flannel shirts while they wore tank tops, at least on the first day lol! Dust and chaff don't bother your legs too much but, it's bad on the arms and chest! They always wore flannel after that first day! Mom and grandma always kept everyone well fed and hydrated throughout the days too. This was well before Gatorade and other brands were common and even today, nothing hits the spot like a big glass of ice water sometimes.

[todds]

Glad to see you do a video on the 1069. I grew up raising 3 cuttings of alfalfa a season, during which I ran the swathers and balers and my dad ran the stack wagon. Good times back then. I miss the days of putting up hay.

[ScottPykare]

Reminds me so much about when I was a boy I helped my friends father bale hay/straw. Great memories for sure. It's great to see those older bailers still going strong. Thanks Jason 👍🏻.

[JeffDaRosa-ss]

I grew up on an Alfalfa farm in central California. We ran NH exclusively. Started out with a 1048 bale wagon then got a 1069 and lastly a 1075 all these followed our self propelled 1283-3 wire 125# baler. 16 bales/ton. All our hay was sold to the dairymen of the San Jaquine Valley. I can still hear the cadence of the baler as it thumped down the windrow. Thank you for the wonderful videos

[jazzerbyte]

Interesting to see 2 lines of equipment with a long market life. So well designed that the basic design hasn't changed completely.

[nitro]

Looked like they were having some trouble with at least one of their balers. Those stack wagons are so slick!

[philippriegler]

I have never seen such big tractors operating such small balers. Interesting combination. Great Video!

[robbybachmann]

We make some small square bales on our farm with similar equipment. We use a adapter on the PTO from 1 3/4 1000rpm to 540 size PTO, then run the large tractor at 1100 rpm to get 540 rpm at the baler. It helps us save some fuel and ware and tare on the large tractors. Easier to find a driver when you can offer a cab and AC rather then a open station tractor as well.

[SW-jwil]

i remember riding on the fender with my grandpa while side raking… miss those times & the smells of a dairy farmer in Wisconsin

[kellyconstenius]

Those are the coolest machines ever. I always wanted to buy one, but never got big enough to justify the cost.
Stuck as a one-man band. Working off the farm.
Cut 4 racks worth, Ted, rake.
Bale them drop on the ground. Go back over with the hay rack and pick them up. Drive them to the Barn.
Pull the racks in out of the weather.
After work each night. Stack them in the barn. If the weather was right. Would be cutting again after work on Wednesday.
Ted on Thursday. Rake on Friday. Bale on Sat, Sun. Rinse and repeat until done.

[johnvillalovos]

I used to operate these “harrowbeds” in the late 70’s to 80. I believe we had 1068 and 1069 models. We hauled alfalfa and straw. Straw is much lighter and more “springy” than alfalfa. Bales don’t have as clean cut and perpendicular lines that an alfalfa bale will have. I preferred to work with alfalfa, personally. If I recall, correctly, our wagons had Ford 460 V8 engines in them. We hauled in California.

[guyh.]

Kind of therapeutic just sitting & watching baling & stacking. Miss hearing the old, rhythmic "ker chunck, ker chunck, ker chunck" of balers and watching the intricate dance of the stackers. New Holland & JD were the best/are small bale implements on the market. ❤❤❤

[markdice]

Glad to see the video includes numerous breaking and broken bales. As a kid I spent a lot of time feeding them into our John Deere 114W "stationary" baler powered by the crank-start Wisconsin VF4D.

[BRPFan]

Awesome video! Thanks! I worked on many Stackcruisers back in my New Holland Mechanic days!