Moving large square bales, with no machinery. Let’s do this.

[BlueKnife]

2 of my bales side by side, pushed together tightly would be 10’ (120”) wide, unless you stabbed the ends of the bales, but then they might fall off. They are 4x4x5.

I'm no mathematician, but, if they're 4 feet wide and you put two side by side, wouldn't that be 8 feet, not 10 feet?

 

[Hay Dude]

I'm no mathematician, but, if they're 4 feet wide and you put two side by side, wouldn't that be 8 feet, not 10 feet?

Its not your math, its your ignorance of how hay bales are carried.
If I stabbed 2 4x4x5 bales on the 4' wide side, then you'd have the spear in the 5' "end" of the bale. If you carry a bale like that at high speed over the road, the bale will sag, become misshapen and break.
It puts too much pressure on the strings.

 

[Hay Dude]

For what I would imagine she's going to end up paying for delivery, she could probably just buy a little 4x8 utility trailer and come get the bales from you every couple weeks. Then she could just leave them on the trailer to feed. It'd save her some hay probably, due to the bale not laying directly on the ground.

What you don't realize is how frighteningly stupid some people are. I have to deal with them on a weekly basis. They will promise to buy hay, then you never hear from them again.

 

[BlueKnife]

Its not your math, its your ignorance of how hay bales are carried.
If I stabbed 2 4x4x5 bales on the 4' wide side, then you'd have the spear in the 5' "end" of the bale. If you carry a bale like that at high speed over the road, the bale will sag, become misshapen and break.
It puts too much pressure on the strings.

I thought we were talking about how they'd fit on a flatbed.

 

[BlueKnife]

What you don't realize is how frighteningly stupid some people are. I have to deal with them on a weekly basis

Indeed. I dealt with some real doozies when I was doing residential tree work.

 

[Sprinkler Fitter]

ignorance

Ignorance?

Didn’t they just ask a question?

 

[BlueKnife]

Ignorance?

Didn’t they just ask a question?

Ignorance can be a good reason to ask a question. In this case though it wasn't ignorance. I'm well aware of how hay bales of all shapes and sizes are carried. It was a miscommunication about the carrying method we were discussing.

 

[Hay Dude]

I thought we were talking about how they'd fit on a flatbed.

And I thought we were talking about stabbing them with a bale spear? Lol

 

[Rustyiron]

I like the electric over hydraulic bale carrier. Just don’t like the idea of swapping balls every time I need to hook up the GN

Just get another truck to put under a 2 5/15 ball. I hear the new 8sp is nice!
Might as well mount a smaller knuckle boom loader behind the cab!
Jeez it's fun spending others money. Maybe I'll get into the government.

 

[BlueKnife]

And I thought we were talking about stabbing them with a bale spear? Lol

@Shawn T. W. , in post #48, was talking about hauling them stacked "side by side" on a 53' flatbed. You quoted his post and said that 2 of your bales "side by side" were 10 feet "wide". Perhaps we need to coordinate on terminology. When the bales come out of your baler, the part that you see first I would consider to be the "end". That has dimensions, if I understand you correctly, of 4'x4'. The "sides" as well as top and bottom would be 4'x5'. Do I have that right?