Secure your hay on trailers, fatality

Brown Swiss · Jan 30, 2015

A guy that hauls bales for us didn't secure his load and lost a couple off. My brother hauled hay for me years ago and never strapped the top bales until he hit a bump one day on our road and it launched a 1200 pound round at least 30-40 feet, he straps all bales down now, common sense! Prayers for all!
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rockyridgefarm · Jan 30, 2015

I grew up 1.5 miles down Circle Rd and now farm 5 miles from there. It's a T intersection with Hwy 61, as flat and straight as you can expect on Grant County, WI. There's a hay market right there and the hay musta been coming from there. There was absolutely no excuse for this accident. I wanna smack people who are stupid enough to BRAG about not securing loads! ANY load going ANY distance should be properly secured.

ShadetreeRet · Jan 30, 2015

Agreed. If it has to be loaded ON to something, it can come OFF, if not properly anchored.

Nancy Howell · Jan 30, 2015

I agree with you.

I frequently haul one or two 4x4 rounds in the bed of my pick up. While I don't put a strap over the top, I put a strap across the front and one across the back. Those bales don't move until I get home and unload.

People just don't realize how easy it is for something to shift or come off a trailer.

All the busted furniture, etc., on the side of the road should give people a clue, but it doesn't. Its the "its not going to happen to me" mentality.

Mike M · Jan 30, 2015

Even on back roads too.
One day I went out to get the mail and there were several round bales laying about the road and ditch. Before long owner of them showed up with a skid steer and gathered them back up. Lucky for him no cops came around !

Gchase24 · Jan 30, 2015

I agree. Three days ago I stopped to assist a Deputy sheriff to remove two round bales from the middle of a county road. Thank the lord no one hit either of them. A few years back a local high school bus was envoled in an fatal accident that killed two high school girls .The bus swerved to avoid a unsecured load tha fell from a pickup pulling a lowboy loaded wth styrofoam.This accident was on state hwy between Beaumont and Houston Texas.The pickup driver was charged with involantary manslaughter

rbhuntn · Jan 30, 2015

Was a non-fatal accident in Ark a few years back due to same reason. Guy was hauling 1200lb round bales and one fell of and the car following hit it. Totaled the car. Thankfully no one was hurt.

My buddies always tease me about using 4 chains and ratchet booms when hauling my tractors. My reply is always the same "At least I haven't lost one yet"

Tie it, strap it, chain it, boom it and if nothing else is available use baling wire or duct tape......

Alan K · Jan 30, 2015

I always remember my dad saying "You are responsible for securing your load". I always remember that every time I haul anything. A lot of times people have said "It will ride fine the way it is" I usually go overboard securing something so I know it wont go anywhere.

Logan in S.E. Texas · Jan 30, 2015

AB (squared) Horrible tragedy!

Brown Swiss · Jan 30, 2015

I came through there this morning going to the UW
Extension, there were cops everywhere around
Lancaster, I came from Fennimore on 61 then home
down 35 toward Bloomington. Hay sale today!

VADAVE · Jan 30, 2015

Couple of years ago I was headed south on I-95 at 75. Come up on a box in the right side of the middle lane sitting upright. Sez I "that must an empty box that has slide of a truck" so I didn't squeeze into the left lane just caught it with the right bumper end. That ever was in that box didn't move but the box disintegrated. I was really glad I only caught the edge or corner of the box. I do think that whatever was in it moved slightly so it ended up sitting on the line.

Texasmark1 · Jan 31, 2015

Old 3 lane "death trap" Highway 90 by chance?

06 DIESEL · Jan 31, 2015

My old landlord always hauls his bobcat on his steel deck trailer without a strap. He gave me a hard time last year when I moved it for him several times for snow and put multiple chains on it. I told him if I am hauling it I am properly strapping it down, even if it is only a mile or two, you never know when you are going to get hit or blow a tire.

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