Worked summers for a haying man. One drove tractor pulling the trailer with one guy on trailer and one walking on each side throwing the bales up. Then ride to barn and stack them and back to the field. All day until too dark to see. In August at early football practise we laughed at the city boys who were getting sick from the heat. Not to mention we were very much stronger than they were. It was so hot in those humid 100 Louisiana summers that you would feel a chill when you walked through the shadow of the piled up hay bales. We averaged 1200- 1400 bales a day for a nickel a bale.

Never have seen such a machine

Made in America! Stay safe.

Bought one at auction for either $10 or $20 in the early 1980's . No one wanted it. Worked great and thousands of bales.

My uncle had one of these on his farm. We used it to pick bales up in the 1970s

Gotta love ground drive equipment!

These work great, no throwing bales up from the ground.

Simple and effective.

I have seen plenty of German solutions: cage channel attached to the baler including attached trailer, throwing forks, belts that accelerate the bales and throw them in the air, or a spiral shaped chain transport on a trailer. But this is something new...

Would have been a help when I was a kid

That is so cool. Saves having to pick up off the ground

Did this same work in Australia most of my life,very hot and dusty

When we handled small square bales, hay hooks were almost a necessity except if you were throwing or bouncing the bales.

These were manufactured by Welch Manufacturing, of Herington, Kansas. It was invented by M.V. Welch, and they made thousands of them.

We used a 15 blae stook. My brother and I spent our summers pitching 100lb bales. We were nothing but muscle through high school