In the hay hauling summertime mode, the loading arm is on the right side of the contraption. When bales are being picked up, the machine doesn't have to stop when a bale is being picked up. You just drive by, and slide the two arms under the bale, then swing the bale up onto the chain driven beams. By turning the chains back about six feet, the front area is ready for the next bale. The driver needs to keep track, and quit after six are loaded. Sometimes one forgets, loads seven, and the last one falls off the back of the beams. :?
When you get to the bale yard, just line up where you want the bales to set, tilt the platform, and drive out from under the six bales as the chains turn backwards. It is pretty slick.
For feeding hay in the winter, you tilt the platform and back up under a line of bales. When the first one gets close to the basket, a hydraulic loading gizmo flops the first bale up and over onto the basket. When all five bales have been loaded, just tilt the platform down, and you are ready to travel. As each bale is fed, the next one is just flipped up and over, into the basket.
The processor is run with a 1000 rpm power take-off, and flails chop up the hay as it is strung in a nice windrow on the ground. If the wind is blowing, I try to feed facing and straight into the wind. This is good practice if you ever plan to fly an airplane, also. :wink: Another caution is to try to keep ahead of following cattle. Occasionally they can step in front of one of the tires, and get injured.
All things considered, the D&W is a very good way to handle large round bales. It is easy to pick up bales and haul them off the fields, and it is an efficient way to feed.
