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Graveyard1984

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I have one horse that i will be feeding 5x6 rolls of hay.
My tractor will not lift rolls of hay.
I am going to buy hay as i need it.
Ive thought about just rolling it off the trailer but not sure if I could roll them off.
The amish has a hay spear mounted on a trailer that they use feed rolls of hay with.

Ive thought about building one ive even considered putting a spear in my truck

I appreciate any tips and information
Thanks
 
. I know someone who bought rounds one at a time and had them loaded into her truck, then at home she would roll them off the truck and into a feeder.
 
Neighbors have done it a couple different ways. If you don?t want to drag the bale with a chain, take an old car or truck hood and tip the bale on that, then slide them out to your horse. Another neighbor used the horse (Clydesdale) to pull the bales out to its own pasture.
 
I guess you will need the trailer and not able to just pull it out there and leave it on the trailer. I've pulled them off by looping a chain over the roll and pulling with a tractor.
 
If you could get the seller to load it into your truck. When you got home like showcrop said just kick it off the back of the truck. And if your kicker is not in the greatest shape you could take a piece of rebar and bend it to a hook and the other end where you could tie a rope to it . Tie the rope to a tree or post or whatever put the hook in the round bail and drive off and in theory pull it self off.
 
I sell hay to a couple of fellows that can not lift the bales when they get home. They both have a steel bar that they push/drive through the center of the bale. They then hook a log chain on each end of the bale. They then pull/roll the bale off their trailer/truck. With mesh wrapped bales you can roll them on the ground without them unrolling.
 
I had a guy that would come for round bales with an old Colman popup camper with the center roof cut out. I would put the bale in and when he got home, pull it into the pasture, block wheels and under the jack, crank up the roof, tie tarp over top. Hauler and feeder all in one. Worked real good til he lost the inner fenders. Going home one (last) time the bale got against the now open wheels and he wondered why he could smell smoke! I guess was flaming pretty good by time he pulled in. Got unhooked before it caught the truck but was end of the trailer. Think he only got hay once or twice after that in his truck - I believe he found a new home for the horse.

Paul
 
I feed 5x6 round bales and when the only tractor that?s available is the 25 horsepower sub compact new Holland I load the bale on the flatbed one ton truck take it to the corral back up hit the brakes and slid it off the back then the Little tractor can stand em on end so I can feed it with a pitchfork
 
I've seen an old school bus used. Cut the top off, take the seats out. Cut the frontend off. Works well, a friend mine has one. He rolls each round bale off the back. Holds 5 or 6 bales.
 
Part of my cash rent was hay for my horses. It first was brought to me in small squares. The switched to a big round baler and a 8 foot long square bales. They brought me a load of round bales. I ended up using my loader tractor to scoot them out in the field, cutting the strings and unrolling them. I would do three at a time and use my baler to make them into small square bales. They sold the round baler and just make the 8 foot bales and I can feed a flake at a time with the loader that is close to a half of a small square bale. I wrap a rope around the bale and release one flake at a time and use the loader to fold it in half and scoop it up. When I have help they can use a barley fork to fold and carry one flake unless the windrow is huge and a flake is larger than a bale. The flakes will pull in half easy normally. Much easier than the round bales with small compact tractors.
 
My father used to put them in the back of his F250, drive out to the pasture, back up to a tree. Then he would run a rope from the tree over the top of the bale and tie it to a hay hook stuck in the front of the bale, then drive forward. Worked fine until one day a bale was a little heavy and buckled the tailgate!
 
Set your hay feeder by the fence and roll your bale off by it on the other side outside the pen. Flip it up on a pallet, keep it covered with a tarp, and pull the hay off with a fork and toss it in the feeder as needed.
 
Looking at your posts I see you have a JD 2040 with 3 point hitch.

Why not just put a spear or set of spikes on the back of it?

Should have plenty of power to handle a bale.

I have a set of spikes on the back of a JD 401 which is not much bigger than your tractor and it handles 1850 lb oat bales on back without a problem.
 
Unless you're feeding the bale under a roof, I think there will be a lot of waste.The hay will get rained on a lot before the horse can eat it all,and spoil. I would want a smaller quantity exposed to the weather if I was feeding. Just a few days worth. I can/could roll a 4x5 bale, but if it has a flat spot from setting awhile, I doubt one man could roll it easily.And once it does start rolling with any momentum,you can't stop it, unless you are totally flat land. Believe me. Mark.
 
I'm sure the hay supplier will run right out and buy a new baler just to satisfy this one customer...
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Not hard to find another hay supplier when only buying hay for one horse. Don't make it more difficult than it has to be.
 
John that?s how we hauled hay From the field to the stack yard until we got a bale wagon
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Graveyard .... so what fraction of a bale does one horse eat in one day (or how many days to get through a bale)?
 
buy ,make a little trailer, have them set one on upright, walk around the bale and un roll as needed . when empty go get another
 
99% of the time my was attached to the hitch on the truck. Backed up to the bale and it would roll on. Take it up the road, and roll it off backing up. Never even got out of the truck. From field to barn we had a trailer we could get 12 bales on. This one guy always paid me to bring him bale, and thats how we did it.
 
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