Hauling hay

[DEERE3594]

How many square bails can yall get on one of yalls flat beds? With my damn stack and roll bar I can only get 35 :rolleyes5:

 

[83GMCK2500]

I might've got about 36 2-tie bales of hay in a 78 Scottsdale C10 that also had a 100 gal rectangular diesel tank in it. Bump stops were not pleased with me. Heck the steering loosened up quite a bit too if I remember. I only needed to go 2 miles on a gravel road no more than 20-25 mph.:thumbsup: They were older bales that we use for stackyard bedding.

 

[Lancerdually]

I haven't even seen a square bale in years. who uses squares anymore
Lol j/k but I haven't hauled any square ones.

 

[trouttrooper]

I haven't even seen a square bale in years. who uses squares anymore
Lol j/k but I haven't hauled any square ones.

It's getting harder and harder for those of us to find hay who just own horses but no big equipment to move the big squares or round bales. We've got a guy who agreed to keep putting one of his fields in small squares for us, but he's starting to have a hard time finding repair parts for the equipment.

Bought some hay once from a guy who advertised small squares. I was desperate at the time and he was the only hay I could find. Small squares my ass :icon_bs: . They might have only needed two ties, but they weighed over 130 lbs each. 2 tons later of loading, unloading, and stacking, my arms were friggen jello.


To the OP, that's about what I get in my non-flatbed. The stopping point for me becomes the height. It's too high for me to throw them up there. I'm wasting too much energy vs making a second trip.

5 in the bed
10 first row
10 second row (doesn't look like it, but that layer ended up off center a bit)
10 third row
2 top row......just because I could

 

[packratt]

. They might have only needed two ties, but they weighed over 130 lbs each. 2 tons later of loading, unloading, and stacking, my arms were friggen jello.

Whimp. That was only 30 bales.

Most of the horse people around here use small squares.

Even with cows it's nice to have a few around. They are nice to have if you have to segregate a cow for something or if the ground is too icy for the tractor to move a round one.

 

[trouttrooper]

Whimp. That was only 30 bales.

Yup :thumbsup:

Put respirator on, triple overdose of Benedryl (severely allergic to hay), drive the truck down the field, stop, get out, walk back and throw (er heave) bale into trailer, stack as necessary, get back in truck, drive to next bale. Repeat 29 more times

Drive home, unload and stack.

Wife wanted to help when I got home, but she couldn't hardly budge those bales, let alone pick them up and throw out of the trailer.


I was more tired after that load than our typical hay moving day when we pick up 14 tons. Those bales run around 55-60 lbs.

 

[FF_Opie]

160-something. Does this count?:smile5:

 

[Lancerdually]

bucha whimps we used to stack out flat bed 18 wheeler trailers daily when folks still used square bales around here

 

[DEERE3594]

160-something. Does this count?:smile5:

Those arnt all on the truck though ):h

 

[1994ch]

bucha whimps we used to stack out flat bed 18 wheeler trailers daily when folks still used square bales around here

I have done that once....I repeat ONCE ):h

 

[busdriver75]

Those arnt all on the truck though ):h

you didn't specify!!

i can get 200 on mine pretty easy justin!!

sorry for the small pic, damn phone was on the wrong setting!

 

[Johndeer_countryboy]

I have never hauled square bales, but I have had 21 round rolls on the trailer before. The truck moaned a little,, and I bent the 3/4" plate the ball was mounted too. A 21ton bottle jack can bend wonders, ha ha ha

 

[radar1053]

bucha whimps we used to stack out flat bed 18 wheeler trailers daily when folks still used square bales around here

I have an uncle with a hay business and when I was 30+ yrs younger I went to help one summer. My dad and him built a device to use his semi trailers and this bale loader deal was attached to a pipe on the side and would slide the length of the trailer to load it. I went ONE trip of doing this and said there was not enough lead in my butt to buck bales and I never did again.
His two sons would rant and rave about picking them up with a New Holland stacker at 20 mph or so and how they would be running down the fields. Then he got the thing on the side of the semi and grabbed another gear and they would litteraly run up and down the truck loading. Not for me. I enjoyed welding with my dad in his shop at the age of 14 or so and so that was my calling.

 

[btfarm]

FWIW, I comfortably have had 35 or so on a longbed several times but have done 45 with straw. Alot of sm squares around here because there's alot of horse people. I sold all my hay equipment about 5 years ago and contracted for my needs.

 

[btfarm]

I have never hauled square bales, but I have had 21 round rolls on the trailer before. The truck moaned a little,, and I bent the 3/4" plate the ball was mounted too. A 21ton bottle jack can bend wonders, ha ha ha

Damn that's a nice pic in your av!

 

[dms4x4]

There could sure be some chiggers in uncomfortable places, and she's in for some bad scratches if she's buck'in bales in that outfit. I married the gal that used to come out to help me lookin' like that.

Damn that's a nice pic in your av!