Norden Mfg, formerly Kuhns Mfg, provides quality square bale handling products for hay growers around the world. These products feature the Bale Accumulators, Tie-Grabbers, and standard Grabbers and they continue to create new products to help producers. As technology for the products increases, the Kuhns family remains true to their original pioneering design principles and values. Norden Mfg is a close-knit family-owned business, with several family members in key positions in the company.Kuhns Mfg LLC was established in 2005 by Kenneth Kuhns to produce the hay bale accumulator he invented. Many years of difficult experience in producing small square bales inspired him to create the machine that he needed on his own farm. The Norden Hay Accumulator system uses gravity and a simple mechanical system to efficiently arrange small square bales into a group. A Kuhns Grabber or Tie-Grabber mounted on a front-end loader or skid steer can pick up the bales and load them onto a waiting truck or wagon. The packs can then be stacked in the barn with a grabber. Without the operator ever needing to touch a bale.Unlike other bale accumulators, it uses no hydraulics, electronics, or chains. Using excess energy from the baler plunger, the bales are pushed up and out the top of the chute. As the bales slide down the accumulator bed, the last bale in each row swings a gate to open the next row. The last bale in the group opens the back gate. As the accumulator unloads itself, springs and counterweights automatically return all of the gates back to their starting position, ready for the next bale.