self unloading wagon/haywagon

Self unloading wagon? In what way?

Could it have been a New Holland Stackliner?

Ok, that would make sense.

Well there you go, proof is in the picture. Actually a really good sales pitch, one wagon does both. Is that a D15 or a D17 pulling the baler? Looks like a series II D15 to me.

Edited by AC720Man - 29 May 2021 at 6:52am

1968 B-208, 1976 720 (2 of them)Danco brush hog, single bottom plow,52" snow thrower, belly mower,rear tine tiller, rear blade, front blade, 57"sickle bar,1983 917 hydro, 1968 7hp sno-bee, 1968 190XTD

Dusty MI wrote:

Not sure but I think that wagon has back doors that open and the apron reveres to move the bales out the back.

Exactly !

We had one that we used that way. If I remember correctly, you could only kick about 60 bales into it. Again IIRC, the back tailgate hinged near the top and there were prop rods on the sides to hold it open. The lags turned backward to slide the bales to the back.

This was our first self-unloading wagon. Up till then, we has used "false-front" wagons for silage and for bales. The false front was removed and all bales were unloaded out the front.

Hay was baled by an AC baler (302 or 303) with a bale thrower powered by a 8 hp. Briggs and Stratton engine.

Dad concluded that the self unloading was too small to be beneficial and that somebody was going to get hurt using it. It was also very hard (and unsafe) to unload. It also meant that you had to have a tractor with a PTO to unload and my grandfather's WF (which I now own) had no PTO. Ours was very short lived as a bale wagon.

Here you go.........

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y3l0iwL0FhI

Wondering how much hay you could do in a day? Would need at least 2 or 3 of them to keep the baler running....yes?

And is that a little Farmall running the hay elevator?

Biggest advantage I see to a hay wagon is if doing small runs, bales never hit the ground. If baled dry enough to not risk any mold, you ought to get it to the barn dry. But dealing with wagons seems like it would sure slow things down.

Hay mows in barns around here are the elevated levels/floors (animals were usually on the lower level) hay was stored on. Originally loose hay was put on the mows, in later years bales were piled on them. Some did add conveyors, in the top of the barn, running the length of the barn with "dump offs" to feed bales onto the different mows. Many piled the bales on the mows, some just dumped them, it depended on how much had to be stored as if the mow was open to the center aisle of the barn; bales would fall off the mow onto the floor before the mow was full when dumped and not piled. In later years some put up large open buildings, hay barns with no mows, with conveyors hung in the top of the barn and just dumped the bales off the conveyors into big piles.

New member - parting out some of my Dad's (what I thought was..) less desirable AC collection. In process of selling His 2 beater, Self Unloading Wagon, Original, working. Descent shape, now I know maybe harder to find and great for a collection. What's going rate on a descent/working one nowadays, please?

Still use hay mows here, much better dry storage for hay and a little more elbow grease because the bales get stacked in place. I use (3) barns and fill those first. Our ground holds moisture so a lot of waste when going that route even a few days causes loss.

Growing up, we used anything that bales could ride on as it beat picking them up by hand off the field. Most didn’t have money even when NH came out with stack wagons. I was really glad when the round Baler showed up at the farm for demo. My mother bought it for my father in 1980. Only pc of equipment she ever bought.

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