Hauling Hay

[Rancher Ed]

170 +- on this load. Only one on the Subaru.:laughing:

Atgreene, interesting way of stacking the bales, kinda like a pyramid. Nice looking load.

My bales are 35" long and weigh 50-55 pounds. Two bales at 35" long is 70" and one lengthwise down the center flat is another 18" bringing me to 88" wide. Your bales must be pretty loose making it tough to stack very high.

OK. Our bales are 42, maybe 43" long so if we put one down the center we would be looking at 102" wide or a little more. These 60-65 pound bales are nice and tight and stack very nicely. In the past the 50 pound bales might have been a little loose but not enough to make a diffenence, they still stacked fine. I guess it depends on the baler, how well it will pack the bales.


The first picture is of the guy we bought from hauling back to his barn. It is a mid 2000s Dodge 3500 SRW 4x4 and the 30' trailer has tandem duals.
Second picture is of us with 9 round bales.

Ed

 

[Diamondpilot]

Right there is a good example of a guy pulling a real load with a SRW 1 ton. 17 bales at 1000# each and a trailer that is about 6,000# empty puts him at around 23,000#. See it every day of the week around here but I guess they do not see it in some parts like posted in the other thread.

Chris

 

[slowzuki]

Exactly, that is a normal gooseneck load on a farm truck around here.

 

[Rancher Ed]

Chris, these bales weigh between 800 and 900 pounds so the load a little less than 21,000#. Still a good load. I wouldn't say this kind of load is common around here but it is certainly not unusual.


I am thinking you guys will get a kick out of these last two photos. We had 3 bales left to get and no trailer available so we just put them all on the truck. It was a little top heavy but it was all back roads and did fine.

Ed

 

[atgreene]

Atgreene, interesting way of stacking the bales, kinda like a pyramid. Nice looking load.

Yup, saves trying to tie the load down. We've gotten pretty good at loading hay due to the rough roads around here.

My '98 gm 2500 that I used to have I hauled a Moritz 23' gooseneck and routinely hauled 250-300 bales. Heaviest load was palleted mulch out of Jolly Gardener. 27000 lbs across the scales. Drove it 30 miles to my brothers hardware store. Didn't plan on being quite that heavy.

 

[downslope]

Exactly, that is a normal gooseneck load on a farm truck around here.

Yes, a normal gooseneck load. But in the other thread some were saying it would be an OK normal load with a BP trailer.

 

[ptwohig]

A light load of corn Stalk, we shorted this load 7 bales as it was our last one for the day.

 

[CCOUGHRAN1]

With the severe drought we have had this year, I have been burning up the roads trying to stock pile hay for our livestock. Looks like I will start haying the cattle next week.

The first two pics are old pics, everything else is from the past seven days.
Heavy load
2003 dodge 6spd, 32' trailer. 15k tare, 19,500 in hay gross 34.5k

2002 Dodge 2500 6spd, 32' trailer. 10-5x6 rolls.

Load I had brought in last week 23-5x5-1/2 rolls

Load I had brought in last night 23- 5x5-1/2 rolls

5 bales I moved the other day. If I had a hay van, I wouldn't have to hassle with the tractor.

Had a lease pasture sell this week, so I loaded up the last few rolls and panels I had out there and moved them yesterday.

Square bales we hauled last Saturday.

 

[JD5000]

Thanks I'm trying get setup to haul 150 in one load and I have a k3500 single rear wheel 8' bed and a 18' trailer. I may have to go higher on the trailer, but the bales I buy are closer to 50lbs.

I have a flatbed with a 16' deck that I can put 153 on if I stack 7 high. Looking for a trailer with a 20ft deck so I can get 200+

 

[RDrancher]

Not much hay around here this year with so little rainfall. Luckily, construction has really picked up this year! I have a line on hay from Kansas and the farmer delivers, so we'll be bringing in a few semi loads.

Here are a couple photos from last year delivering cow hay from Weatherford to Gainsville (about 75 mi one way.) Six loads over three days. A bit much for a SRW F-350 (and a wee-bit overweight), but it paid the bills!