Moving Round Bales with a BX

[Deano]

ROPS up, no belt. FAIL.

I had to see where I was going.

Deano

 

[Verticaltrx]

All I can say is, I would be getting another hay guy. Does he roll my hand? I have never seen a roll that loose and hold together. That doesn't even look like it has a center.

I agree, a good round bale should be so tight it's hard to get a bale spear all the way in them.

 

[Duffster]

This is yet another thread about what NOT to do. I'd drag it on a car hood with a BX but this is just asking for trouble and should come with a disclaimer.

ROPS up, no belt. FAIL.

Maybe we could get a Mod to change the title under your avatar to " TBN Safety Police".

 

[leonz]

Utility is one thing, stupidity is another.

The fact that the load being the hay bale
is one beyond the tractors foot print
and also that the hay bale is creating
a higher center of gravity, which would
explain why he is leaning backwards,
and standing at the same time to counter
the effects of gravity on the hay bale in
the loader bucket by adding more wieght
to the rear and creating a larger counter
wieght.


One more reason of many to have wrapped
round mini bales.

Having worked around and with drunken idiots that would
use an one man aerial man lift to to lower a 3 ton
burned out electric motor that was removed because
the supervisor did not want to have a $700.00 crane
rental for a day to lower the bad motor and lift and
install the new 3 ton motor is also high ranking stupidty.

This same supervisor is also at fault for the recent death
at my former employer of a contract truck driver who was
crushed to death instantly when the truck he was in was
crushed by the loading bin collapse he was under while
beginning the loading of his truck.

The only recognisable portion of the truck that was left was the
"MACK BULLDOG"


:smiley_aafz:

 

[Just2quickz28]

I have been moving round bales with the BX generally with a hay spike on the 3pt hitch for almost 2 years without a single issue. I would not go up a steep hill or sideways across one but I cannot see why I shouldn't use it for it.

 

[Deano]

Utility is one thing, stupidity is another.

The fact that the load being the hay bale
is one beyond the tractors foot print
and also that the hay bale is creating
a higher center of gravity, which would
explain why he is leaning backwards,
and standing at the same time to counter
the effects of gravity on the hay bale in
the loader bucket by adding more wieght
to the rear and creating a larger counter
wieght.
:smiley_aafz:

What? I am leaning to keep the seat switch made and standing to see...the tractor was in no way overloaded (bucket picked it up just fine) and the load is in no way going to "roll over" on a level road going 2 mph! Common sense goes a long way....

Deano

 

[leonz]

What? I am leaning to keep the seat switch made and standing to see...the tractor was in no way overloaded (bucket picked it up just fine) and the load is in no way going to "roll over" on a level road going 2 mph! Common sense goes a long way....

Deano

you said it, a car hood carrying a hay bale offers little resistance but screeches on gravel or aspault when towed with a chain.:thumbsup:

 

[NH-Rob]

I moved some with my B7510 a couple of times just to see if it would do it. I was using a hay spear made for a skid steer adapted to bucket quick hitch. I would do it again on a flat surface. I have not tried it with the B3200 but I am planning on buying a couple rounds this winter so I will find out how it does then. I really can't see why it would be much of a problem with the load kept down low like the op has it.
Rob

 

[gladehound]

It's so funny that we sit around talking about if it's safe to move a round bale with a small tractor. I'm sure there are parts of the world where they would try to get six of those round bales on that BX if they were fortunate enought to have one!

 

[ChuckinNH]

We had an unusual report from a BX-25 customer that while his neighbor was baling hay the ford 5600 bit the dust. Rain on it's way they backed the BX up and baled the final two loads with it!!!! This is a kicker baler and was towing a wagon to boot!!!

He said you felt every plunger stroke and just thinking it probably pushed it ahead a foot everytime.

We had to buy a small square baler with a motor on it to bale our hay. We had a little Allis Chalmers "C", and that baler pushed that tractor back, and forth with it just sitting there, and would shove the tractor, and my Dad around pretty good when we were actually baling. It worked for many thousands of bales though. I can just see a BX doing that, lost in the view of baler, and trailer, but I suppose it weighs nearly as much as our C did, and certainly has more HP.

 

[zoltanthegypsy]

We had an unusual report from a BX-25 customer that while his neighbor was baling hay the ford 5600 bit the dust. Rain on it's way they backed the BX up and baled the final two loads with it!!!! This is a kicker baler and was towing a wagon to boot!!!

He said you felt every plunger stroke and just thinking it probably pushed it ahead a foot every time.

[Completely OT!] A wagon? What luxury. 45 years ago (or so) I worked on Jim Painter's farm as a high-school summer job. The wheel tractor pulled a kicker baler, and behind that was me on a sled.

IIRC, the sled was a 2x6 or so with a bunch of 2x4 fingers trailing behind. I would stack the alfalfa bales 3 or 4 high then jam a pike into the ground ahead of them and walk them off the back of the sled. All the while things in motion and bales being excreted out the back of the baler. Fun.

Jim had a coffee can screwed to the tail of the baler as a place to put odd bits of metal and twine to keep them out of the field. My favorite (only) way to pass the time was to catch mice as they popped out of the bales and see how full I could keep that coffee can. Big fun except when the occasional rattler wiggled out of a bale.

Jim was a great guy to work for, and I was in amazing shape, but I don't really miss those days. When we cut roads into the wheat he always baled the wheat straw. 150# or so green. *grunt*
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Z.

 

[Grateful11]

I remember watching a show called "Rescue 911" many years ago. This one episode had a Dr. that farmed part-time and he was moving round bales with his front end loader, he lifted one just a bit too high and it rolled back across the hood, hit him right in the face and chest and severed his spinal cord, he still practices medicine, if he's not retired by now, from a power chair that lifts him up to a standing position. No feeling from the waist down. We bought a L3940 which is the smallest tractor "I" would consider using to safely move round bales.

 

[SPYDERLK]

We had an unusual report from a BX-25 customer that while his neighbor was baling hay the ford 5600 bit the dust. Rain on it's way they backed the BX up and baled the final two loads with it!!!! This is a kicker baler and was towing a wagon to boot!!!

He said you felt every plunger stroke and just thinking it probably pushed it ahead a foot everytime.

Please let me know if that BX25 has any transmission problems in the next year. I baled with my BX1500 and noticed the plunger strokes as well. I believe the HST was hitting relief pressure with reaction to each stroke. No immediate effect noted, but the trans died about 8mo later with a broken cradle bearing. It showed one failure symptom in the interim when I think about it, but later became acute suddenly and failed completely within a month. I think baling may have broken that cradle. :confused2:
larry