How many round bales per hour can you make ?

[TennesseeTuxedo]

Stacking was a disaster for us as well a few years ago.

 

[Silver]

One on end, with one sitting normally on top. Try to pick a tighter, round shaped bale for bottom and a squatter for the top. Try to make the stack look like a mushroom. Very little feed loss this way. Top bales stay in exceptional shape and bottom bales just loose the bottom 4-6" over winter. Majority of people stack this way here, but we are high rainfall/snow area.

Thanks Aaron I'll try some stacked that way.

I'd suggest doing a small sample, a really small sample size! I tried that here about 15 years ago. With our rainfall here in Virginia along with other environmental factors, the bottom bale was basically mulch by winter time.

We stacked this way once. It worked really well through fall and winter (obviously much colder / dryer winters here), but come spring the snow melted off the top bale and migrated through the bottom bale, and the ground water wicked up into the bottom bale. Also making the the bottom bale basically mulch.

 

[chevytaHOE5674]

Tried the mushroom stack a few times. By December the bottom bales were mulch with all the moisture from the top and what wicked up from our wet soils.