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Jassy

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Hubby got a new balemoover last week, and he says it's the simplest thing he's ever run, and works great. It can pick up bales on both sides, just drive down the field and scoop em up...I'm sure many of you have seen this kind of machine before, but I hadn't, and I thought it was kind of cool...maybe something this blond could run! (second thought...nope, then I'd have to learn to drive the tractor first).... :lol: :wink:

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Those are a pretty handy deal, I don't know how we ever lived without one. Made moving hay go from down near the bottom of my list of favorite things to do to very near the top. After you tear the string off a few bales, and make a mess or two unloading, you'll find it a pretty easy machine to run :-)
 
I have seen those a couple dozen times in magazines and thought they looked great, my only forseeable problem always was getting them out of the field as in they look LONG and wide.. Maybe if we ever convert more crop ground into hay ground it would work, or maybe fore stalks but I don't know.. Looks real handy but I kind of liked the beast too.
 
Oh the ole beast is still with us...but I think it might be retired for awhile...this new toy holds twice as many bales and travels faster...The beast was one of those winter jobs to see if it could be done kind of projects..lol
 
Your country sure is good. Nice machine. I've looked at them. I had a Haying Mantis for the square bales, and sure liked it. When I was up in that country, we swept hay and stacked it in small (5-6 ton) stacks. Do many still put it up loose.
 
Nice machine, Jassy. In the top picture, it looks like there is a cowboy in the tractor swinging a loop on each side of the hay carrier, fixin' to rope those stray hay bales. :wink: It's a nice outfit all the way around.
 
Our neighbor bought one of those last year his wife loves it as she does most of the hay hauling he bought her a new McCormick tractor this spring to rake hay with and gather bales it makes a pretty nice unit.
 
I hope you have good luck with it. We've been running the Bourgault 1650RBM for the last couple years, and had to replace the fiberglass bushings that the axles pivot on, and walk on, before this season started and some of them were pretty tough to get driven out. So I fugured out that if you take the saws-all with the longer wood blade on it you can cut right through them and then they almost fall out. I wish ours was weighted a little differently, it sort of teeters when full....can't decide if it wants to lift the rear end of the tractor or rest on the drawbar.
 
We have a Highline bale mover, one of the best investments we ever made. We find if the hay to be hauled is close to home, it's a whole lot faster moving them home with it than it is with the semi. The semi now is only used when we have to haul any distance, and it takes two people to move bales that way versus one person with the tractor and bale mover.
 
that is awesome!
I couldn't drive that thing I have some blonde, (brunette and a lil red, naturally!) anyhow,
great pictures, I want one!
 
Shelly said:
We have a Highline bale mover, one of the best investments we ever made. We find if the hay to be hauled is close to home, it's a whole lot faster moving them home with it than it is with the semi. The semi now is only used when we have to haul any distance, and it takes two people to move bales that way versus one person with the tractor and bale mover.
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That's exactly why he got this bale moover...takes 2 people, tractors to load and unload the semi...this is so much more efficient.
 
Jassy said:
Shelly said:
We have a Highline bale mover, one of the best investments we ever made. We find if the hay to be hauled is close to home, it's a whole lot faster moving them home with it than it is with the semi. The semi now is only used when we have to haul any distance, and it takes two people to move bales that way versus one person with the tractor and bale mover.
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That's exactly why he got this bale moover...takes 2 people, tractors to load and unload the semi...this is so much more efficient.
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It looks like an outfit that hauls 12 bales, which also wouldn't be so heavy (as in tendency to drop in) in some of the soft meadows as a larger, heavier, one.
 

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