Moving Round Bales with a BX

[Just2quickz28]

I generally use a hay spike on the 3pt hitch to do move these bales, but it turns out the FEL can handle the bale in a pinch.

 

[Heywood Jannockitov]

Just keep 'er on level ground and pump up those front tires a little more!

 

[radioman]

:thumbsup: LOOKING GOOD!

 

[Just2quickz28]

Just keep 'er on level ground and pump up those front tires a little more!

Myself like many other BX-er's have been fighting front tire leaks. This week I will be putting in tubes.

 

[leonz]

I generally use a hay spike on the 3pt hitch to do move these bales, but it turns out the FEL can handle the bale in a pinch.

That all the more reason to buy a mini baler from Wolagri

 

[art]

We had an unusual report from a BX-25 customer that while his neighbor was baling hay the ford 5600 bit the dust. Rain on it's way they backed the BX up and baled the final two loads with it!!!! This is a kicker baler and was towing a wagon to boot!!!

He said you felt every plunger stroke and just thinking it probably pushed it ahead a foot everytime.

 

[Just2quickz28]

I am always surprised at how much this small tractor can do with a bit of patience. I figure with a set of forks vs the bucket forks the weight would be easier to handle because the weight would move back about a foot.

I generally only move round bales with the FEL in the winter when the backhoe is on for a counter weight to my snow plow.

 

[wrooster]

I generally use a hay spike on the 3pt hitch to do move these bales, but it turns out the FEL can handle the bale in a pinch.

<i'm not a hay guy>

i know how much a square bale of hay or straw weighs, give or take.
but how much does a round hay bale (like you show) typically weigh, dry/damp/wet?

wrooster

 

[Just2quickz28]

Wrooster,

That is a 4ft by 4ft diameter round bale, wet I would say around 500-650lbs depending on the bale and as they dry out they get considerably lighter 400lbs or so.

I have to push them off my landscape trailer and into a carport for storage in the summer when the bales are fresh its much harder work than in the winter when they are dried out.

The round bales are probably going to be the reason I upgrade my tractor at some point.

 

[Verticaltrx]

Wrooster,

That is a 5ft by 4ft diameter round bale, wet I would say around 500-650lbs depending on the bale and as they dry out they get considerably lighter 400lbs or so.

I have to push them off my landscape trailer and into a carport for storage in the summer when the bales are fresh its much harder work than in the winter when they are dried out.

The round bales are probably going to be the reason I upgrade my tractor at some point.

Either those aren't 4x5 bales or they were rolled really loose. We make 4x4 bales with a JD446 baler and they are 700-800lbs dry.

I move 4x4 round bales front and rear with my B3200 and it's about the smallest tractor I would use. Any kind of hill and I have to be pretty careful.

 

[Evil the Weasel]

This is yet another thread about what NOT to do. I'd drag it on a car hood with a BX but this is just asking for trouble and should come with a disclaimer.

 

[Just2quickz28]

I am not sure how this is what is NOT to do. The BX was able to pick up the load and I carried the load low kept it level ground. Granted its not something I would do ever day or multiple times a day with a BX but in a pinch...

 

[Just2quickz28]

Either those aren't 4x5 bales or they were rolled really loose. We make 4x4 bales with a JD446 baler and they are 700-800lbs dry.

I move 4x4 round bales front and rear with my B3200 and it's about the smallest tractor I would use. Any kind of hill and I have to be pretty careful.

Sorry, Typo they are 4x4 round bales
and for weight I was looking at the chart on this page
Using and Feeding Round Bales to Horses

 

[bigbull338]

4x4 bales weigh 600lbs or less.

 

[radioman]

We had an unusual report from a BX-25 customer that while his neighbor was baling hay the ford 5600 bit the dust. Rain on it's way they backed the BX up and baled the final two loads with it!!!! This is a kicker baler and was towing a wagon to boot!!!

He said you felt every plunger stroke and just thinking it probably pushed it ahead a foot everytime.

I would've loved to see that!!

 

[Deano]

Been there...done that!!:laughing:

Deano

 

[Evil the Weasel]

ROPS up, no belt. FAIL.

 

[leonz]

The lesser and healthier of the two evils is

the car hood as the term "over center load overloading"

is what this is in reference to.


The load is physically beyond the foot print

of the tractor and is creating a very large

unbalanced load that WILL roll the tractor

over on its side if enough swaying movement occurs

from a dip or sudden turn resulting in rolling over

opposite the direction of the turn if made to sharply.

 

[kday64]

The lesser and healthier of the two evils is

the car hood as the term "over center load overloading"

is what this is in reference to.


The load is physically beyond the foot print

of the tractor and is creating a very large

unbalanced load that WILL roll the tractor

over on its side if enough swaying movement occurs

from a dip or sudden turn resulting in rolling over

opposite the direction of the turn if made to sharply.

Leonz,

I am sorry but when I saw your post I got all excited that it was going to be a poem about overloading and rolling a BX.

Not excited because I like poems but excited because I thought it was going to rhym and be phunny.

Guess I was wrong... Again.

I am a big believer that just because a piece of machinery can do something, doesnt mean it should do that same thing. My time in Egypt convinced me of this fact.

~Kevin

 

[Leejohn]

All I can say is, I would be getting another hay guy. Does he roll my hand? I have never seen a roll that loose and hold together. That doesn't even look like it has a center.