Delivering hay pics & stories

[Hay Dude]

Thought I would start a little thread about hay delivery. I have several hay delivery customers and I thought I would share a few pics.
If you have pictures or stories, share them.
Last night, I picked up the tractor from my shop/home base and drove it about 7 miles to one of the more remote farms in my area of service. This morning about 6AM, I drove the RAM to the location where I dropped off the tractor. My mission was to load (26) 850 pound 4x5 round bales and take them to a customer about 50 miles away for his beef cattle operation. It was about 18 degrees at 7AM in the barn, but it was going to be a bright sunny day and I looked forward to extracting the bales from the barn (aka rolling them out by hand and they can be pretty heavy).
I used the tractor with the dual bale spear and had the truck loaded the truck 2 bales at a time by about 10AM.
I hit the road and arrived to be unloaded in about an hour. I met my customer and his friend at his barn. Took a few pictures of some nice beef cattle and made my way home.
Loaded and ready to roll

 

[Hay Dude]

Driving to customers place I saw a fellow farmer cleaning up some blow down debris and then a little double nickel cruise out to western Lancaster county. Cummins pulls so nice :thumbsup:
The others are nice (dmax & powerstroke) but the Cummins pulls at such low RPM. Torque real nice off pedal down low. Feels like it works a lot less than the other 2.
Southbound & Down!

 

[Hay Dude]

Pulled into customers farm driveway and unstrapped. Begin the unloading process

 

[Hay Dude]

Heres the customers waiting for my arrival snapped a few pictures while the unloading continued.
We finished up and shared a few stories and a few laughs. Gave some fertilizing advice and thanked my customer for the check. Made it home by 3pm to beat the traffic!

 

[Thomas]

Thanks for the ride along. :thumbsup:

 

[Peter 315]

What's the yellow light in the dash on for?....Regen..

 

[Peter 315]

I would put 2 straps on the rear bales.....

 

[deezler]

So what does a big round bale, delivered 50 miles in the middle of winter go for? If you don't mind sharing....

Almost no snow on the ground eh? Getting more now?

 

[Hay Dude]

What's the yellow light in the dash on for?....Regen..

No silly. It means exhaust brake on :laughing:
Yellow means full exhaust brake, man itll slow that truck down with out touching the service brakes.
Green mean auto-exhaust brake, a little less than full on.

 

[Hay Dude]

I would put 2 straps on the rear bales.....

After a couple thousand loads of hay, I discovered it doesnt make a difference
If the bales are hanging 1/2 way off the back, might do 2. Pretty rare
Never lost a load off the back.....side is a different story. Almost lost a load off the side.