Share Pics of People Hauling or Towing Something Wrong

[Sysop]

That picture makes the Chevy bed look much stronger than a Ford's wimpy beercan...

 

[BrokeFarmerJohn]

That picture makes the Chevy bed look much stronger than a Ford's wimpy beercan...

That bed might be aluminum.

 

[Sysop]

I removed my tongue from my cheek, I can't hear what you're saying.

 

[clintz]

Only lost a couple bales on the way!

 

[BrokeFarmerJohn]

Only lost a couple bales on the way!

There's a job I never was very good at, was too weak to throw bales that high for and length of time, that's a lot of work lol.

 

[clintz]

There's a job I never was very good at, was too weak to throw bales that high for and length of time, that's a lot of work lol.

Although I enjoy tossing them around, we use a hay elevator when it gets way up there like that

 

[California]

I saw a bale tosser rig in use 50 years ago that I haven't seen since - a boom with cable and hook, on a rotating platform on a naked car chassis. Something was attached to a road wheel on one side of the chassis and when the operator stepped on a brake that halted the other side of that rear axle, the wheel side spun and tossed the bale up on the haystack. Looked like something that would make a OHSA inspector faint.

 

[BrokeFarmerJohn]

 

[BrokeFarmerJohn]

Although I enjoy tossing them around, we use a hay elevator when it gets way up there like that

I like round bales, they roll and it's mostly loader work lol.

 

[CADplans]

There's a job I never was very good at, was too weak to throw bales that high for and length of time, that's a lot of work lol.

One summer, during college, I threw those bales, EVERY evening,for as long as I could last.
It started out being an hour or so,, but, after 3 months, I could toss for 3-4 hours.

The bales were lighter, the farmer was baling wheat straw for VA-DOT highway construction.
I think we baled right at 600 acres.
An old guy drove around, slowly, baling, and dropping bales, all day, every day it did not rain.
He seemed to only stop when he needed to put new twine in the baler.

BUT,, after that summer, I went back to college.
We were in the athletes dorm one night.

They were arm wrestling,, there was not a football player I did not beat!!

That was better than the money I earned,,, :laughing: