Moving large square bales, with no machinery. Let’s do this.

[airbiscuit]

Do you anticipate doing this type of delivery often? One bale at a time or 2?

Just spitballing here, but maybe you could make a sort of Roll Off. A winch and a roller at the back of the bed, and a sort of push cart attached to the cable (think Menards push cart)

edited ... This is the type of system our silage wagons had. the front of the wall of the wagon was attached to two cables on the floor, and a kind of ratchet winch pulled it forward to advance the silage.

 

[garry1p]

Use a High Lift jack and push them off.

back of bed|hi lift [ 4X4..2X8 flat against the bale|>>>>

I suspect you have all the materials on hand.

 

[Hay Dude]

On a more practical level he was wanting a tandem axel flatbed. I’ve seen moffet forklifts for like $6500 used.

Lots of thought went into this. I could get a “2-fer” with a 25’ tandem and a moffet. Nobody around here uses them for hay and the reason is the rear steering wheels are really small on the buggy and hard to control on hay field bumps.
I did find this truck yesterday, but bed is only 22’ long. I thought it was a really sharp older truck though. $22,000

 

[Hay Dude]

If you put a piece of plywood under the bales the PVC idea would probably work but I don’t have a lot of confidence that you could overcome the friction between the hay and the pvc pipes.

Why would there be friction between hay & pipes? You put the pipes on the flatbed first, then the plywood on top of the pipes, then the bale on top of the plywood. That will roll pretty easily.

If you were willing to flop them on the ground to start with why don’t you just use the dump truck?

I’m not willing to do that if the bales start sliding at a rapid speed down the dump bed and onto the ground where they could break. Dump truck bed sits about 2’ higher off the ground than Ram flatbed. More of a chance the strings will break.

 

[BleedingOrange]

Haydude, out of curiosity, do you get flaky people like this to sign a contract of some kind, like x amount of bales in x amount of time at x dollars delivered per bale, or just do the deal verbally ? What I,m kinda asking is, how do you know for sure you can at least cover your investment ?

 

[Sprinkler Fitter]

Well, I finally realized one way square bales are inferior to round bales. I always knew this, but now it’s come to be a problem.

Customer messaged me last night. Has 4 easy keepers and wants to feed them big bales on the ground with NO hay hut or feeder.
Ridiculous, I know, but ifn that’s what they want, who am I to judge? She’s too far to run them over to her with loader tractor.

Problem is, she only wants 2 per month. If it was round bales, no problem, just roll them off the trailer onto the ground, but my 4x4x5 hay blocks don’t roll so well

Trying to think of ways to deliver them without tractor. Best I can come up with is load them on the bed of my Ram and me and my son push them off, but at 1000lbs each, won’t be easy, or will it? I think I might put a 5’ long pc of 4x4 under the back edge of the bale to give it some “slope”, then strap down real, real tight. Then when I get there, the slight angle off the edge of the truck, we might be able to shove them off.

Would love to have a cheapy, easy to chain down skid loader right about now….

What are 4 easy keepers?

Would this work? It should work on a flatbed also.

 

[Hay Dude]

What are 4 easy keepers?

Man you gotta get out more lol
Easy keepers are lower end, non-picky horses

Would this work? It should work on a flatbed also.

 

[WM75Guy]

Man you gotta get out more lol
Easy keepers are lower end, non-picky horses

 

[Sprinkler Fitter]

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Man you gotta get out more lol
Easy keepers are lower end, non-picky horses

We have 4 neighbors with horses, 2 with cattle and one pig farmer, never heard of easy keepers

 

[BlueKnife]

Well, I finally realized one way square bales are inferior to round bales. I always knew this, but now it’s come to be a problem.

Customer messaged me last night. Has 4 easy keepers and wants to feed them big bales on the ground with NO hay hut or feeder.
Ridiculous, I know, but ifn that’s what they want, who am I to judge? She’s too far to run them over to her with loader tractor.

Problem is, she only wants 2 per month. If it was round bales, no problem, just roll them off the trailer onto the ground, but my 4x4x5 hay blocks don’t roll so well

Trying to think of ways to deliver them without tractor. Best I can come up with is load them on the bed of my Ram and me and my son push them off, but at 1000lbs each, won’t be easy, or will it? I think I might put a 5’ long pc of 4x4 under the back edge of the bale to give it some “slope”, then strap down real, real tight. Then when I get there, the slight angle off the edge of the truck, we might be able to shove them off.

Would love to have a cheapy, easy to chain down skid loader right about now….

For what I would imagine she's going to end up paying for delivery, she could probably just buy a little 4x8 utility trailer and come get the bales from you every couple weeks. Then she could just leave them on the trailer to feed. It'd save her some hay probably, due to the bale not laying directly on the ground.