two_bit_score
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- John Deere 110 TLB, Diamond C 19LPX GN trailer
actually it can tie them quite good.
If you have a competent loader, and good bales, and your trailer has strong rear ramps ( not landscape ramps, but rather heavy ramps made for multi thousand pound machines ), then you can wedge hay in pretty tight.. and tight hay interlocks front to back good. add some on top, especially a single middle row, and that hay grabs good.
I HAVE, in the past moved hay on private back roads or in 'neighborhoods' or limited access roads like this, untied with neary a problem. however nowadays I always throw straps over even if it's just a mile down the road.
Worst hay i've seen is loose bales. I hate to move loose bails. hard to spear, they droop, rip when speared, and won't roll and get flat bottomed, and take on too much water due to not being tight.
good tight bales stack better too!