The AG Bale Drying Bed
The drying cycle ends here.
When bales come out of the Maximizer's drying chambers, they're hot and not yet at storage moisture. The AG Bale Drying Bed is where the cycle finishes — and where bales become ready for storage.
Ambient air is blown through each bale by the bed's fans, traveling through the spike channels left from the drying chambers. As the air moves through, it wicks out the rest of the moisture and cools the bale to safe storage temperature. Drying and cooling happen as a single step, in one piece of equipment.
What This Saves You
Bales coming out of the field need to go through a sweat — a natural fermentation process — before they're stable enough to compress for shipping or put into storage. The sweat takes time, and the bales can't be compressed until the temperature drops and the chemistry completes. For some operations, that's a few days. For producers handling large volumes for shipping, it can stretch into weeks of inventory sitting in storage, tying up cash and floor space.
The Maximizer accelerates the sweat. Heat and airflow through the drying chambers initiate the sweat process. The drying bed completes it as bales finish drying and cool to ambient temperature. By the time bales come off the bed, they're stable, cool, and ready to handle however your operation needs them — stacked, compressed, shipped, or stored.
One Brawley, California producer purchased the Maximizer specifically to compress their pre-shipping inventory cycle: less hay sitting in storage waiting for the sweat to finish, faster turnaround between field and customer, less working capital locked up in inventory.
Included with Every Maximizer
The AG Bale Drying Bed ships standard with all three Maximizer models. It isn't an optional accessory — the bed is part of the AG Hay Drying System, sized to match the throughput of the model it's paired with.
How the Bed Works with Each Maximizer
Maximizer 300E: 10' × 27' drying bed with two 10 HP fans, sized for a single-chamber system handling 4x4x8 or 3x4x8 bales.
Maximizer 400: 18' × 27' drying bed with six 10 HP fans, sized for a two-chamber system handling 4x4x8 or 3x4x8 bales.
Maximizer 600: 24' × 28' drying bed with six 10 HP fans, sized for a three-chamber system handling 3x4x8 or 3x3x8 bales and Baron Bundles.
Each bed is positioned along the long side of the drying chambers, opposite the infeed table. When the operator pushes new bales into the chambers from the infeed side, finished bales are shoved through to the drying bed on the other side. No conveyors, no hydraulic transfer — the loader does the work.
Power Requirements
The drying bed fans run on either single-phase or three-phase grid electricity. The number of fans varies by model: two 10 HP motors on the 300E, six 10 HP motors on the 400 and 600.
For the 400 and 600, the drying bed is the only part of the system that uses grid electricity — the drying chambers themselves run on diesel. For the 300E, both the chamber fans and the drying bed fans run on three-phase grid electricity.
Site Flexibility
The bed is built to operate outdoors on level, firm ground. Concrete pad optional. It can also be installed under a shelter or inside a building.
