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How do you move hay bale baskets any distance?

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Ken Macfarlane

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I'm looking at a pair of Forage King hay baskets, you know the things that trail behind and balers and hay pushes up the chute.

They look to be about 10ft long, by 10 ft high, by nearly 10 ft wide. They are 3 hours away from me at 70 mph, and there is a 2 lane, 10 miles long bridge between us that it is extremely difficult to get oversize permits for. I would like to get them on my 27 ft flatdeck.

Is there a way to collapse them? From what I can tell they are delivered with only the tires and chute removed. It seems like they should bolt together somehow?
 
I have 2 Quality brand, on those you can pin up the hitch so the front caster wheel is off the ground, and it trails very well as a 2 wheel trailer.

Not sure it would come apart well, with that large rear openning they tend to weld them together pretty good to keep them stiff & strong. Some parts bolt together, but seems a lot is welded. On mine. Don't know about your brand.

--->Paul
 
The ones I have seen are a welded together unit. They have to be stiff to allow the back gate to open to dump. If you are getting them cheap enough, and can weld well, take a good saws-all and cut them into sections that you can haul legally. I have been using some Milwaukee blades called "the Torch". They will cut 1-2 inch tubing fast. Then when you get home weld them back together. I have done this on the older IH disks.
 
Thats what I suspected. We actually just cut up an ih disc to get it on the buyers trailer safely.

Not sure the savings on this deal are worth the hassle of cutting, loading, rewelding. Even the bridge fees are over a 100$ with the trailer.
 

Ah, PEI, the place that welcomes you with open arms to play on their island, but wait til you go home, they extort money from you to leave!

The baskets had to go over on the link...should come back over it??

The bale baskets were sold a bit here, but most are pretty well parked and not used. I can only think of one that is still used buy a guy with about 20 acres of hay that is right beside his barn.
 
I think when they're shipped, they're stacked inside each other. Atleast that's how I've seen them on a truck before. Must remove the chute and then drop one inside the other.

Donovan from Wisconsin
 
A neighbour has 6 of them, they only get used once a year, for
straw, but they don't loan, lend or rent them out. Their grain is
on an island, about 45 min round trip with a basket on so they
have three old guys in pickups shuffling baskets, and always at
least one empty waiting on the baler man. They work really well
for them.

I wish I could find some more of them, I only need 2, but three or
four would be nice. They only seem to come up for sale one at a
time. How on earth can anyone use them with only one? Drive
the baler back to the barn every 20 minutes?

As of right now I had given up finding any so I started buying
running gears to prep for an accumulator, we have 2 x 8 ton, 3 x
4 ton, a 27 ft flat deck, and the neighbours 3 x 8 ton. Loading
these suckers by hand is not fun and we don't have a shed big
enough to pull them under cover at night so it all has to come
off and go up the elevator every night.
 
> How on earth can anyone use them with only one? Drive the baler back to the barn every 20 minutes?

I just have one. I leave the pickup in the field to run it to the barn and back. Let's just say that with a one-man operation, the equipment is NOT the limiting factor in how much hay I can put up in a day.
 
Do you just dump your days worth of hay at the base of the conveyor? I was thinking a cheap 30x40 tarp building over the area at the base of conveyor, dump the baskets inside for sending up the conveyor at any time.

Or just bite the bullet and put up a modern barn we can drive into.
 

The guy I know just dumps his on the ground at the end of the elevator and goes back to the field, and another guy tosses the hay on the elevator while he bales. His fields are right beside the barn and no road travel is required.

I'd bite the bullet and go round before messing with ANY bale baskets, throwers, accumulators, grabs etc. The money spent on equipment should pay for some changes.

We are mainly square bales....but now bale a decent chunk round. The barn is still set up for square bales....
 
We sell the hay and rounds aren't worth anything here. We did
make about 60-100 rounds a year for a few years with the
neighbours baler. I never sold any of them and just finished
feeding the last ones this winter.

I found it irritating for a few reasons, spending all the time sitting
tying, baler pickup plugging was common in really dry hay, and
picking up required quite a bit of time to load the wagons then
unload. I'm sure a bigger bale would have helped, these were
4x4's.
 

A debated selling hay as well and I might yet, but it will be squares not rounds for the same reason. I suppose a bale basket would work good for that.

I bale 4x4 and you are stopped alot in heavy hay, but it's still faster for me and only one man can get it done.
 
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