Don Wietfeld is my grandpa and being a third generation in the hay business this is so neat to see him and my dad as young boy in this working! Thank you for posting this!
My dad had a McKee that was one of the first machines made in the early 50's and he would fork the load off into the back of the harvester, the wagon would push the load to the front of the wagon and the harvester blew it into the top of the barn or tower silo .fantastic machine, 24 foot box on the wagon and lots of feed for cheap,I even went to see the factory where they were made in elmira Ontario
i would love to see this kind of engineering come back, i am sick of the new crap that is over priced, and computerized to the point of complete failure.
Any idea as to the theme music beginning at 1:51 as far as composer or artist? I quite like it. I'd buy one of these units too if they still made them. I've never seen on personally as stackers never caught on around here.
Sorry, it was stock music from a record in a film studio. You pay by the second for rights to use it. By the mid 1970s the Stack n' Mover was beaten out by the competitions' round baler. The end of that line of business for McKees. I helped to build them in my youth and made the film it 1971. Neill McKee
Great to hear. I helped to build them in the summers in the early 60s. I'm writing books now and one will soon come out on that era. See neillmckeeauthor.com or write me at neillmckeeauthor@gmail.com.
One of the shortest lasting inventions out there. Seems hardly anything they said in the video was true. 5 foot high haystacks end up under the snow banks with lots of spoilage. Now how many really think there's 10 ton in one of those stacks I mean like really. Anyone who ever stacked hay by hand can remember how high you were in the air when a f 10 farmland couldn't get it any higher and that was 10 ton back then
Don Wietfeld is my grandpa and being a third generation in the hay business this is so neat to see him and my dad as young boy in this working! Thank you for posting this!
What a great coincidence! I filmed them near West Point, Nebraska. Are you on the same farm?
My dad had a McKee that was one of the first machines made in the early 50's and he would fork the load off into the back of the harvester, the wagon would push the load to the front of the wagon and the harvester blew it into the top of the barn or tower silo .fantastic machine, 24 foot box on the wagon and lots of feed for cheap,I even went to see the factory where they were made in elmira Ontario
Doubles as a shed. Nice
My family ran one of these in Cozad, Nebraska for years. Worked great for our cattle operation.
Great to hear!
Very very cool. Would love to see more videos of McKee equipment!
Amazing thanks for sharing never seen this version of stacking 👍
Then along came the round baler
Yep! Fortunately the McKees got out of the business before that happened, completely.
i would love to see this kind of engineering come back, i am sick of the new crap that is over priced, and computerized to the point of complete failure.
Any idea as to the theme music beginning at 1:51 as far as composer or artist? I quite like it. I'd buy one of these units too if they still made them. I've never seen on personally as stackers never caught on around here.
Sorry, it was stock music from a record in a film studio. You pay by the second for rights to use it. By the mid 1970s the Stack n' Mover was beaten out by the competitions' round baler. The end of that line of business for McKees. I helped to build them in my youth and made the film it 1971. Neill McKee
Great to hear. I helped to build them in the summers in the early 60s. I'm writing books now and one will soon come out on that era. See neillmckeeauthor.com or write me at neillmckeeauthor@gmail.com.
That was neat. Wonder if there's any around yet.
Saw one at an auction last year, didn't look too far from being functional, but I am pretty sure it got bought to be used as a hay hauler.
I think I might know of one in Colorado maybe
I think you will find the in agricultural museums.
Why they got out from market?
The round baler took over the market!
Beats having all this polluting plastic silage wrap all over the farm which is expensive and near non recyclable.
One of the shortest lasting inventions out there. Seems hardly anything they said in the video was true. 5 foot high haystacks end up under the snow banks with lots of spoilage. Now how many really think there's 10 ton in one of those stacks I mean like really. Anyone who ever stacked hay by hand can remember how high you were in the air when a f 10 farmland couldn't get it any higher and that was 10 ton back then
The guy weighed the stack in the video and it was 10 ton and the guy was standing beside the stack and the stack was 12 ft
Bullshit