[AT] First cutting in the books

[Spencer Yost]

Actually I do have teenage help.   We both stack the trailer (Denise drives) and at the barn he feeds the elevator while I stack in the loft. 

He only has one more year of high school and then it is off to the military.  While he has not been the smartest I've had (one of the reasons why I stack in the loft),  He's the strongest and a pretty good work ethic.  He'll be tough to replace.   


Spencer Yost

> On May 18, 2017, at 3:43 PM, Gunnells, Bradley R <brad-gunnells at uiowa.edu> wrote:
> 
> You can do all those bales on two beers???  Hahahaha…sounds like inexpensive labor to me.
> 
> You need to find a local kid to ride a rack behind the baler so you don’t have to handle them twice.  ;-)
> 
> Luckily, I can usually get my dad to come over and drive the tractor for me while I rack the bales. And yes, it usually requires a couple beers at the end to wash down the dust.
> 
> Brad
> 
> On 5/18/17, 2:07 PM, "at-bounces at lists.antique-tractor.com on behalf of Spencer Yost" <at-bounces at lists.antique-tractor.com on behalf of yostsw at atis.net> wrote:
> 
>    I have two bale grapplers as well. There are at the end of my arms. They can lift one bale at a time and put it on the trailer. When my bale grapplers were new, they could do two at a time. But nowadays two at a time overloads them.   They are cheap to operate as I only have to pour in one or two beers afterwards.  
> 
>     (-;
> 
>    Spencer Yost
> 
>> On May 18, 2017, at 2:06 PM, David Bruce <tractor57 at gmail.com> wrote:
>> 
>> The formerly young man who leases here has a bale accumulator that 
>> groups 6 bales then drops them together. After he bales he comes back 
>> with a larger tractor pulling a gooseneck trailer and with a bale 
>> grabbing device on the FEL arms. He can pick up the 6 bales at one time 
>> stack them on the trailer and when the trailer is filled off to the barn.
>> 
>> He does that with his horse hay, his cow hay he rolls.
>> 
>> David
>> 
>> NW NC
>> 
>> 
>>> On 5/18/2017 11:13 AM, Phil Auten wrote:
>>> Looks good, Spencer! I'm surprised you don't have a conveyor behind the
>>> baler to load it directly on a wagon, though. Maybe a future investment?
>>> 
>>> 
>>> Phil in TX
>>> 
>>> 
>>>> On 5/17/2017 6:59 PM, Spencer Yost wrote:
>>>> Score another for old equipment.  Everything went well and as usual the baler didn't miss a single knot.   My tedder is of recent vintage but everything else is at least 50 years old.
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> Spencer Yost
>>>> 
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