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RJ-AZ

08-27-2005 14:24:00




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There has been a lot of discussion here and on other boards about transporting hay balers, like how fast and how far.
I had gone over to Bonita Az. to pick up a camp trailer and on the way back was doing 65 on a two lane secondary hiway when I was passed by a Blondie Babe in a big 4X4 Silverado with a NH baler in tow. She went on down the valley at around 70+ mph and I never saw her again. I didn"t recognize her as a local so she had a fair piece to go, maybe all the way on into the Phoenix area??

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RustyFarmall

08-27-2005 15:22:23




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 Re: Baler transport speed in reply to RJ-AZ, 08-27-2005 14:24:00  
Most modern farm machinery is built with bearings, spindles, and tires that are built for highway speeds so there wouldn't be any problem with traveling at 65 miles per hour as far as the tires and bearings are concerned. The REAL problem is that almost none of the machinery has any springs or other suspension under it, and when you encounter any roughness in the road the machine in tow will begin bouncing,and if you don't slow down this bouncing will become quite violent, causing the tires to completely lose contact with the highway, and then it will began wagging side to side just like a dogs tail. By this time the driver is totally out of control and really bad things start happening. I have transported several implements by towing them behind a one ton truck, and I learned very quickly that 45 M.P.H is fast enough on a very smooth road. If the road is rough, sometimes 20 MPH is too fast. I kind of like to make sure that the implement is not damaged when the customer recieves it, and I don't want to do any damage to my truck either.

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RickB

08-27-2005 17:35:20




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 Re: Baler transport speed in reply to RustyFarmall, 08-27-2005 15:22:23  
Few, if any implement tires are rated for speeds anywhere near that. But I can tell you first-hand that balers tow OK at speeds faster than a sane person should try..... ..... Worst baler-towing story I have is blowing a chamber-side tire at about 30mph on a POS 315 trade-in I was towing back to the store. Knocked most of the chaff & dust off it, for sure.



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08-27-2005 14:32:26




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 Re: Baler transport speed in reply to RJ-AZ, 08-27-2005 14:24:00  
You should have hit the gas and kept an eye on her, she probably ended up on the side of the road some where going that fast pulling a baler. I've lost at least 2 wheel bearing pulling them down the road. Now when I have to do that I stop every 20 miles or so and make sure the wheel bearing are nice and cool and if they aren't I pull out the grease gun and grease them up real good and the cross my fingers.

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