Adventures in bale hauling.

[Big Muddy rancher]

Bought 150 bales about 20 miles east of me. Yesterday i went for the first load and just as he was going to put the first two bales up the studs on the front wheel of a NH TV145 snapped and dropped the front corner to the ground. Just lucky he didn't have it up putting the top row on as it probably would have tipped the tractor on it's side. :shock:
Back at it this morning he shows up with his BIL's new NH W110 pay loader. It sure handles the bales but takes a little to get used to driving. I would load and my daughter would row them up in 27 bales bunches. Got 5 loads hauled today. I took the first load about 12/14 miles to weigh. I would have been happy with that as an average but the owner wanted me to weigh another load from the far end of the field. :roll: Ok I ran down to the scale again all gravel. :lol: The second load was lighter.

 

[Denny]

I've been hauling 4 or 5 loads every morning or fixing fence then when the dews off I make hay.Today I combined some barley I will finish that tommorrow and bale the straw then on to chopping corn and haying.I quit haying when it snow's.You can never have too much hay and feed on hand..

 

[Triangle Bar]

I've had similar experiences like that with a JD 4010 I used for moving big bales. Snapped the spindles on each side and exposed a bad weld between the axle & knee joint. Each time both the tractor & I survived to live another day.

The funny thing about farm equipment is that it doesn't break till you need to use it. :roll:

 

[gcreekrch]

When you guys are all praticed up on your own hay I've got 700 bales to move 20-40 miles on rough gravel.

 

[Soapweed]

Got 5 loads hauled today. I took the first load about 12/14 miles to weigh. I would have been happy with that as an average but the owner wanted me to weigh another load from the far end of the field. :roll: Ok I ran down to the scale again all gravel. :lol: The second load was lighter.

At least it made your extra trip worthwhile. :wink:

I just bought some alfalfa from a neighbor, to feed this winter in place of cake, and hired it hauled home the five miles. The hauler could get 29 bales on his chain-mover truck. This is two rows of ten and one row of nine. He also has a scale on the truck which we used to determine the pay weight. He hauled the six loads for $130 per trip. The bales averaged weighing 1527 pounds, so that made the hired trucking amount to $5.87 per ton. It made life easier for me, and Peach and I were able to process calves that day instead of hauling hay.

 

[Big Muddy rancher]

Got 5 loads hauled today. I took the first load about 12/14 miles to weigh. I would have been happy with that as an average but the owner wanted me to weigh another load from the far end of the field. :roll: Ok I ran down to the scale again all gravel. :lol: The second load was lighter.

At least it made your extra trip worthwhile. :wink:

I just bought some alfalfa from a neighbor, to feed this winter in place of cake, and hired it hauled home the five miles. The hauler could get 29 bales on his chain-mover truck. This is two rows of ten and one row of nine. He also has a scale on the truck which we used to determine the pay weight. He hauled the six loads for $130 per trip. The bales averaged weighing 1527 pounds, so that made the hired trucking amount to $5.87 per ton. It made life easier for me, and Peach and I were able to process calves that day instead of hauling hay.

Some jobs are just better hired out.