Posted by Billy NY on August 20, 2009 at 13:02:35 from (74.67.3.238):
2 days ago, I was hauling in the tightly packed late 1st cut 4x4 round bales, (about 700 lbs each) from a 20 acre field, that is a rectangle, and a somewhat steep slope from the middle up, mind you the entire field is a hill, part of a much larger hill and series of rolling hills around here.
I park next to where the bales were gathered up, get out of the truck, (we had someone on the loader/ bale spear) and watch him load. Just happen to glance up towards where the round baler is some 500 yards uphill, and here's one coming right at me about 50 yards away, not too fast, but glad I saw it !!! I did get er stopped, was not easy, but not impossible, if I had not seen it though, results may not have been good.
So I'm waiting and standing there, til the truck has 15 bales on, I look across the field, near the other side, and heres another one rolling, gaining speed, thinking, can I even catch it, has to be a few hundred yards, but I have the angle of pursuit, then I look down the field and realize the loader operator has his truck parked there, sheesh, off I go, all the way across, full speed, meet the bale, but it's just going too darned fast, so I get behind it and start using my arm as a brake, it hits a small gully, slope reduces a little, and I did get er stopped !. I look down and it was dead centered on his truck tailgate ! The first one was lined up with a back porch/deck of a very nice recently built home. Farmers son baling, was backing up and setting em so they would not roll, also has the arms off the back of the 582 JD baler, and somehow they still get going, anyone else baling hills LOL ?
This could be a funny televised event, you know like that wheel of cheese they chase down the hill, furniture races, running of the bulls, just need a net at the bottom.
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