As Rod said, a crew can outrun an accumulator and grapple any day. But in most areas (at least in the US), there are a limited number of kids who will work, and in the height of haying season, you are competing with everybody else for them.
Friend had a grapple/accumulator set up, and he used 2 tractors- one on the baler, and one on the grapple. After baling (or when hay got too tough to bale), used the grapple to pick up the bales and put on a flatbed trailer. Towed the trailer home with the grapple tractor, unhooked from the trailer, and stacked in the barn. Back to the field in the morning, and haul the rest of the bales while waiting for the dew to go off so he could bale some more.
But if you could pick up a self-propelled stack wagon, I think you'd be ahead. With the decline in small squares, they're available, and less monkey motion than the grapple thing.
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