Norden Mfg, formerly Kuhns Mfg, provides quality small square bale handling systems for hay growers with operations of all sizes. These systems feature the Bale Accumulators, Tie-Grabbers, standard Grabbers, and Bale Squeezes. Norden Mfg LLC was established in 2005 by Kenneth Kuhns to produce the hay bale accumulator he invented. The Norden Hay Accumulator system uses gravity and a simple mechanical system to efficiently arrange small square bales into a group. A Norden 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.