Nicholson Manufacturing Company

Adam C Bird

John M Gombos

Bret A Simpson

A compressed hay bale cutting and stacking system includes a compressed bale cutter and a stacker arranged to stack half-cut or quarter-cut bales in multi-tier stacks while maintaining slices of the bales in substantial alignment. The bale cutter is oriented to discharge the half-cut or quarter-cut bales as a unit at a predetermined elevation. The stacker has a table assembly and a pushoff assembly positioned to receive each bale as a unit from the bale cutter and automatically form a stack of at least 2 bale by 2 bale tiers. The table assembly has an elongate first platform movable vertically on the stacker frame between a raised position aligned with the bale cutter discharge to form a first row of bales and a lowered position for receiving a second row of bales, to accumulate a tier of stacked bales while maintaining the bales substantially aligned along their vertical sides. The pushoff assembly is mounted on the frame with a vertical pushoff plate adjacent the table assembly and is extendable across the platform when in the lowered position to sweep each tier of stacked bales off the platform to add it to a stack.

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Ellensburg, WA, United States of America

Adam C Bird