Move round bale with pallet forks?

[Shawn T. W.]

Yeah, if you grab it from the end like this ... You shouldn't hurt it any ...

If you/he leaves them sitting in your field too long .. you're gonna have a bunch of dead squares on the ground, where weeds are most likely to spring up, before the grass!

 

[BufordBoone]

Yeah, if you grab it from the end like this ... You shouldn't hurt it any ...

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If you/he leaves them sitting in your field too long .. you're gonna have a bunch of dead squares on the ground, where weeds are most likely to spring up, before the grass!

Thanks. I spoke with him yesterday. He is planning on getting there to get them "soon".

I just need to move a couple before a class I'm running as they are in the way.

Thanks, again!

 

[Hay Dude]

Thanks. I spoke with him yesterday. He is planning on getting there to get them "soon".

I just need to move a couple before a class I'm running as they are in the way.

Thanks, again!

In farmer lingo, “soon” means like months.

 

[Sportsman762]

I have moved bales with forks a lot. One guy I helped stack the bales in the barn on their flat side with forks. I have picked the bales out of the field with a rough terrain forklift when the skidsteers were not available. I liked it better than the skidsteer as you could see around the bale and did not get hay in your face. Others have pretty well covered how to set the forks, etc.

 

[Shawn T. W.]

In farmer lingo, “soon” means like months.

My one neighbor cut and baled his back in the beginning of June ... They are still sitting where they rolled out of the bailer ... But he'll get them picked up "soon"!

 

[Hay Dude]

My one neighbor cut and baled his back in the beginning of June ... They are still sitting where they rolled out of the bailer ... But he'll get them picked up "soon"!

Indefensible, but not surprising. Sometimes I see bales left in fields for months. usually it’s a broke loader, or maybe a serious injury. Sometimes, just too lazy or busy.
In terms of farming, I’m pretty organized.

 

[Shawn T. W.]

As you know I drive all over the country ... Going through Oklahoma I saw some bales, or the tops of them anyways ... Poking out of the 4'+ tall grass ... Guess the 2nd cutting was going to be "interesting"!

When I bought my place ... It took me awhile to figure why my field had all these dead 4' squares of grass ... In the spring they kinda filled in with weeds!

 

[lman]

I've seen round bales lined up in a field for years.

 

[Hay Dude]

Such a waste to make bales, only to let them rot along the edge of a field.
Better off selling them at a loss than not at all.

 

[Farmer495]

If you have the same QA on your loaders, just have him set his spear on your truck and take it to your place. They need to come off the field.

Here is a field with two years of hay. Google memorialized it forever. Guess which are the old bales.