How to HAY SWEEP instead of baling hay (day 1)
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- Опубліковано 2 лис 2024
- I built this hay sweep instead of buying a baler to bale hay. I googled "hay sweep" and engineered it from the old pictures I included in this video.
The tractor is a John Deere 790 with a model 70 loader. The hay sweep is 10' wide. It attaches to the bucket with chain and two binders. The frame is pair of 2.5"x2.5"x1/4" angle irons. The 13 stakes (sweepstakes?!) are rough sawn ash 1.75" thick, tapered, 6'2" long (that's what I could get out of a board, nothing special about the length) and spaced every 10 inches. Smaller angle and flat iron make a backboard.
Get to the shop and make one yourself!
Fantastic video, I was looking to buy a hay sweep a year ago and couldn't find anything for a reasonable price so made do with a a toothed loader and by hand with a hay fork, I also don't have a sweep so used a landscape rake, which does not work very well gets a lot of dirt in the hay.
This year I am cutting less but going to try and get my el-cheapo method down better, like last year I just use a brush hog to cut with the back end high so it does not chop it up to bad pretty much just throws it out or drops it. I had planned on going out with a hand rake and flipping it into rows after the top had dried some and then forking it by hand into my dump trailer.
Now I think instead of forking it by hand I may spend the time to try and make one of these I have everything I need here I believe I Just have to fab it up for my loader, and your video has shown me how I can do it pretty well. I will make a smaller version so that hopefully I can use it to load my dump trailer with, that way I can acess hay further away on my property and still bring it back to my sheeps wintering area.
Thanks for the video. I will try and do my own if everything works out and share it.
Seen many of these attached to what ever the rancher had that moved. They stacked hay with a beaver slide after the buck rake got it there.
Look for images of the Big Hole Valley, Mt.
We use to run 3 hay sweeps, tractors turned around backwards and would put up around 1200 to 1500 5 to 8 ton stacks a summer
We used a slide stacker(beaverslide) beats bales 1000 to 1 way better hay!
Very nice. I stacked 90 acres of alfalfa this way when I was in high school. Moving stacks was much less work than moving bales -- you have to stack the bales anyway for the chain platform stack mover -- so this older method actually saves a step. My round baler when up in smoke this year and I am considering going back to the sweep method -- and each stack is a true work of art!
The American KISS method. I like it!
The one at 2:48 is similar to my father's buck rake, but the teeth were tapered with a metal cap on the end.
only way to put up hay did it for many years one man operation F10 farmhand. I used to pull dump rake right behind the bucker while putting it I piles. cleaned up very nicely. let the piles settle awhile and stack them in hay stackes
Great job! Do you have any drawn up plans?
How did you make the wind rows?
I'd like to make or buy one like that. Are there any plans?
I was wondering if you could give some dimensions and materials. Also what weight capacity is your loader? Are those pine 2x4"s and is the frame just angle iron? Did you taper the 2x4's the whole length or just at the ends?
Big as your loader will take. Ive cut up dozens of old buckers. Just look out in the weeds and youll find an old dual or farm hand
With hydraulic push off.
As long as the hay is kept dry, loose is the best for maintaining hay quality. The disadvantage is moving it, especially hauling it down the road.
You really need a push-off on that sweep. Careful on the turns -- those oak bucker teeth do not bend!
Thanks for the idea!
Yep, the 790 mows and does everything.
Bucker dude, we call them hay buckers. If you want to make a good shedding stack you need a guy on the stack. First you buck into "stack load" when dew is on and hay a bit tough. Then you take your stacker and stack tge hay. Takes a pretty good man to make a shedding stack that will keep good with nobody on the stack stepping it down and keepung the "crown". Great work though. Jyst meed to consult a neighbor from the great generation if you still have one, he will tell you the way.
how do you cut and make wind rows?
round bales would keep outside better then loose hay. It is a matter of preference really we use a round baler here.
Thats Bout as backwards as you get buddy. A stack of rpund bales is a funnel. A well made loose stack will keep for years with little loss other tgan the thin crust. You dont know what your talking about.
@shaunbaker04 Air moves through loose hay better. I cover the hay with a tarp to shed precipitation.
man, thats great
did he say he got about the equivelant of 50 bales from 5 acres? what the ##@@
We called those bucker piles not stacks
It takes much more room for loose hay.
Most people could not store enough loose hay in the barn.
A well mafe stack will keep for years with little loss. Dont need the barn.
Another thought crossed my mind while watching this and reading some of the comments. I have room in my barn at ground level, so no need to get the hay into an upper loft. I need only enough hay to feed 2 adult horses over our Upstate New York winter. And most importantly, I'm probably going to do most of the work alone. I believe this would save me having to bale, put bales on my car trailer afterward, unload in the barn, repeat. Will have to try this 'sweep' idea out.