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farmermatt

08-01-2004 19:28:18

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What does everyone use to haul big round bales from fields to storage? More than a mile less than 20 miles.

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Roy B

08-02-2004 23:29:39

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Re: Hauling Hay in reply to farmermatt, 08-01-2004 19:28:18

Have a 25' gooseneck equipment trailer. Pull it with a 1 ton P/U. The trailer has a 5' beaver tail, I chain up the ramps and stack bails against them. Can haul 17 4x4 or 14 4x5. Use a rope over the top row to tie it all together. Have hauled the 4x4's 15+ miles with no problems.

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Hugh MacKay

08-02-2004 14:30:23

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Re: Hauling Hay in reply to farmermatt, 08-01-2004 19:28:18

matt: I think the bigger factor one must consider today rather than the product, is the traffic you encounter on your route. If you live and farm on country sideroads that see less than 20 vehicles per hour, probably nothing better than wagons, trailers, etc. pulled by tractors or pickups.

At the other end of the scale some guys are located on quite busy highways. I guess it's just a case of being able to go with the flow.

I farmed on a road that had curves, rolling hills, etc. Road was built along edge of flood plain. Coupled with that, I could see about 1 mile of road from my place. It was very rare to look out and not be able to see a tractor trailer loaded mostly with forest products, in view of my place. The road was built in the 1950's thus not engineered for the traffic on it. Those highway trucks could come up on you awfully quick. In that situation I joined them and used a tractor trailer also.

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Kelly C

08-03-2004 07:08:41

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Re: Hauling Hay in reply to Hugh MacKay, 08-02-2004 14:30:23

Hugh. I think thats a very very important thing to think about. No use getting squashed trying to get the hay to the barn.
I pull hay racks or my 16 foot trailer 30 mi from my hay field to the house. I have a back road route that I take. I think I have been passed 4 times all year.
The other day I passed a guy pulling a full rack down the main drag. Cars and trucks were lined up for about a mile behind him. Felt sorry for the poor people who were stuck behind him. To much stress and danger involved in that kind of going.
Got to keep in mind the conditions you are going to be working in.

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Cliff Neubauer

08-02-2004 07:36:08

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Re: Hauling Hay in reply to farmermatt, 08-01-2004 19:28:18

Here is our trailer that is made to haul six bales but we will often stack two more on top if we are pulling it with a loader tractor. The hitch has a pintle hitch ring which can be hooked onto the 3pt bale stabber without getting off the tractor. Most of our hay is hauled less than three miles so this works well but it isn't very fast on longer hauls.

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Ron in AR

08-02-2004 06:40:14

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Re: Hauling Hay in reply to farmermatt, 08-01-2004 19:28:18

We use a Chevy C-65 with an 8 X 16 flatbed to haul them around the farms. All within several miles of each other. For deliveries, we hook a 16 foot trailer to this and can haul up to 22, 4X4 bales comfortably. Each bale goes about 900 pounds. Only drawback is, we have to put commercial plates on the truck. Thinking about a 1 ton dually with a 12 foot flatbed for short hauls, and a 24+ foot gooseneck for long hauls. Still tossing ideas around.

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Oklahomatractorrebuilder

08-01-2004 23:59:43

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Re: Hauling Hay in reply to farmermatt, 08-01-2004 19:28:18

We use a tractor-trailer with a 46 ft flat bed trailer and a single axle C-65 Chevy tractor with a 427 gas engine. Haul 30 bales per load. Rigs like this are available around here for under $5000.00.
We laod with a old backhoe with a spike and unload with a old 480Ll front end loader. Works like a champ. On a 20 mile haul it is no problem moving 150 bales a day.

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R. John Johnson

08-01-2004 22:35:14

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Re: Hauling Hay in reply to farmermatt, 08-01-2004 19:28:18

We use a bale carrier made by "Greenbelt" Mfg. Arms on both sides load a bed consisting of 2 sets of 2 rails with chains. A cylinder tips the bed and a hydraulic motor runs the chains to winch the bales off.

One man with one tractor can load, haul, and unload 12, 5 foot wide bales without unhooking anything or leaving the tractor seat. Very slick. Most farms up here have one.

John

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farmermatt

08-01-2004 20:41:37

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Re: Hauling Hay in reply to farmermatt, 08-01-2004 19:28:18

Ive used a donanhue implement trailer in the past 5 at a time. Rolling them off by hand or pushin with a massey 44 bumper. Thinkin of one of the self unloading trailers. Anybody used one? Or get low boy behind my freightliner but not really an off road rig.

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Del

08-01-2004 20:51:05

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Re: Hauling Hay in reply to farmermatt, 08-01-2004 20:41:37

Our nieghbor had a real nice self unloading trailer but didn't keep it long. It hauled 4 to a side and you pulled a rope to dump them. You had to pull out straight or you would hook a bale. Each load you brought in took up a lot of room and unless you had someone there moveing them you soon had an acre or more skattered with bales. He sold the trailer, got another loader and went back to flat bed wagons.

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farmermatt

08-01-2004 20:55:52

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Re: Hauling Hay in reply to Del, 08-01-2004 20:51:05

Particular ones I looked at are EZ haul, kind, and orange ox. They are inline, 7 bales is there largest. Kinda pricey (3500) for what they are.

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Leland

08-01-2004 20:37:33

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Re: Hauling Hay in reply to farmermatt, 08-01-2004 19:28:18

Farmermatt niebhors built a tube frame trailer with a goose neck or they also use a tractor they use quick hitch to hook it up. But they built it to haul 5 bales per side then they stack 8 more on top of the 10 lower bales. I have seen as many as 22 bales on this trailer and they had no trouble moving it. It also has old 24 or 26 ply airplane tires on it the tires never squat when loaded.

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Leland

08-01-2004 20:35:47

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Del

08-01-2004 20:13:15

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Re: Hauling Hay in reply to farmermatt, 08-01-2004 19:28:18

We use flat bed wagons and trucks. I have never hauled any over 10 miles but most usually if we make it through the gates and on the road we've got it made. I take the back rack off the wagons and replace it with a short back rack that slips into pipes mounted at an angle on the sides of the wagons main beams. We also place a rack on the front of the wagon so we don't tie the bales down.This lets me cheat an hang a little over the back and front. Eight 5x4's on the wagon and four on our flat bed ton trucks and we're off. I also place a rack on the truck beds so those bales don't need tied.

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kyhayman

08-01-2004 19:36:00

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Re: Hauling Hay in reply to farmermatt, 08-01-2004 19:28:18

Short hauls I'll use a 20' flat wagon, put 11-4x4.5's on it (8 on the bottom and 3 on top. Long hauls I'll use a 20+5 goose neck. I haul close to a thousand rolls a year, some up to a hundred miles. I went to a 4' wide roll as opposed to a 5' to keep all the roll on the trailer deck and my width under 8'. By staying under 5' high the total load stays under 13' including the trailer.

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