Hauling rounds on 16' equipment trailer, flat side or string side down?

   / Hauling rounds on 16' equipment trailer, flat side or string side down?
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#11  
Looks like I keep doing what I'm doing. I actually went about 30 miles to get them but mainly back roads, 45mph tops. I was on one state highway for less than a mile.

These bales are a little soft but they're pretty much all alfalfa. Only cows will be eating them.
 
   / Hauling rounds on 16' equipment trailer, flat side or string side down? #12  
When hauling 5x6s on my 16' I'd slide them one at a time, off the hay fork meaning you drive up to the rear of the tractor and move the bale over the bed and drop it, the second pushing the first and so on till I got 3. On unloading the first is easy, you just stab it and go. The second and third take more time, usually with a rope tied to the trailer and the tractor. Loop the rope behind the bale and back out till the bale is accessible with the spear and stab it.

However if you have room on the side and have a FEL with a hay spike then 1 and 2 go in from the side and 3 from the rear. On local movement (within 5 miles) I do not tie down. Gravity and friction hold them running at 30-40 mph.
 
   / Hauling rounds on 16' equipment trailer, flat side or string side down? #13  
String/mesh side down over here.
 
   / Hauling rounds on 16' equipment trailer, flat side or string side down? #14  
String/mesh side down over here.

Yeah, but it's actually string/mesh side up for you, since you're upside down.

:laughing:
 
   / Hauling rounds on 16' equipment trailer, flat side or string side down? #15  
I haul them four at a time in my 16 foot bumper pull trailer and then another in the bed of my truck. I put one strap over the back bale and get it really tight.


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   / Hauling rounds on 16' equipment trailer, flat side or string side down? #16  
When I was hauling 8, 5x6 bales from my field, I didn't strap them:

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Out on the highways I am required to cross strap each set of 2 and each bale on the little trailer:

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   / Hauling rounds on 16' equipment trailer, flat side or string side down? #17  
Around here - two rows of four rounds. One tightly bound cargo strap - front to rear - right down the center of each row. Away they go,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,
 
   / Hauling rounds on 16' equipment trailer, flat side or string side down? #18  
Here's 1000 words

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Man that looks like belt and suspenders!

How far are you hauling these bales? With the trailer you've pictured all you need to do is have a couple of straps running fore and aft and if you were only hauling on local roads at low speed you wouldn't even need that. The back ramps will preclude the bales from rolling back. Just the weight and friction of the bales will keep them from leaving the sides unless you are making a 2 g turn. It looks like the front bales are kept from rolling forward by a lip on the trailer.

I haul on back roads at low speeds and I use one strap across the back two bales at a 45° angle. If I'm hauling on a highway( which is rare for us) . I use chains and straps fore and aft over the top of the bales. Never lost a bale with either method.

I would not lay them down on the ends. They will be tippy.
 
   / Hauling rounds on 16' equipment trailer, flat side or string side down? #19  
   / Hauling rounds on 16' equipment trailer, flat side or string side down? #20  
Those are about the neatest bales I've ever seen.

Thanks, but all I did was haul them home. :D

Here is the same load, different angle:

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