Your chance to make some hay like no one else.

[Moline_guy]

This haybuster st-10 stacker comes up for sale in July on ulmer auction, use to be a few in the area, havent seen one in 30 years. This one looks complete but will need some belts.

 

[Moline_guy]

This haybuster st-10 stacker comes up for sale in July on ulmer auction, use to be a few in the area, havent seen one in 30 years. This one looks complete but will need some belts.

Picture i got off the web of one operating/

 

[paul]

Thanks. Never saw one quite like that around here!

Paul

 

[spacechem]

I remember that advertised in magazines. Cheap way to put up grass hay- better than a buck rake, I suppose. There was also the Hawk Built baler that just rolled the hay along the ground. Can't imagine why that didn't catch on...

 

[Moline_guy]

This haybuster st-10 stacker comes up for sale in July on ulmer auction, use to be a few in the area, havent seen one in 30 years. This one looks complete but will need some belts.

Found another picture of one with the belting in place.

This haybuster st-10 stacker comes up for sale in July on ulmer auction, use to be a few in the area, havent seen one in 30 years. This one looks complete but will need some belts.

 

[oliverkid]

I’d kinda like to see some video of one of those contraptions operating.

 

[Fawteen]

 

[JohnRowehl]

What do you do once it is filled up?

 

[Jim.ME]

What do you do once it is filled up?

As in post 2 it gets dumped out and sets as a stack.

 

[JohnRowehl]

And once it gets placed, does that mean it stays there and cattle come to it to feed? Otherwise, how would it be moved somewhere else?
Presumably this is for areas of very low rainfall.

 

[rockcreek4630]

And once it gets placed, does that mean it stays there and cattle come to it to feed? Otherwise, how would it be moved somewhere else?
Presumably this is for areas of very low rainfall.

You use a stack mover or hay sled.

 

[paul]

I’m familiar with the hay stackers that compress the bale into a loaf of bread. Never used one, but they were in the area for a few decades,

This thing seems to make a very large very loose pile of hay. In a humid wet area here I can’t see such a pile of hay keeping. Then, how do you move/ feed it. There seems to be no real structure to the mound for a stack mover to get under it, etc.

I’m sure it had its place, but probably much more so in an arid open region?

Paul

 

[Tony in SD]

There were a few around when I was a kid. They work quite well but they had a lot fo moving parts. The carriage spun as the hay went up the elevator then to the arm. The arm had a roller on the end that compressed the hay against the stack as it decended to the carriage. When the hay cage was full, you had to rotate the carriage so the gates would face rearward then opened the gates and dump the stack. Close the gates and start a new stack. It actually made a pretty good stack and shed water very well. More recently while I was working near Ogallala NE there was a rancher that still used them. He had several machines. I assume for parts. As others have said, they used a stack mover to move the hay stacks next to the feed lot. Same as a stack made with a Farmhand loader of the day.

 

[Absent Minded Farmer]

This haybuster st-10 stacker comes up for sale in July on ulmer auction, use to be a few in the area, havent seen one in 30 years. This one looks complete but will need some belts.

Really cool looking contraption!

There's mention of one in my John Deere haymaking book. If I get a chance later, I'll post some scans.

Mike