Patent ID: 7127985

Claim:
A method of producing and handling aggregate hay bales, said method comprising the steps of: collecting hay from a windrow into a baler; baling said collected hay into generally rectangular parallelepiped bales, wherein each of said parallelepiped bales is generally one-half a length of a standard hay bale and each of said parallelepiped bales is individually held together using strings, said length of said standard hay bale is either 36 inches long or generally between 46 inches to 48 inches long; collecting two of said generally half-length hay bales together in end-to-end fashion; bailing and strapping said collected hay bales together without removing said strings to create an aggregate hay bale which is generally the length of said standard hay bale; ejecting said aggregate hay bale onto a ground surface; retrieving said aggregate hay bale from said ground surface through use of an automatic bale wagon; using said automatic bale wagon to create a haystack of said aggregate hay bales.