Unloading round bales

[oosik]

Ha, ha - Slim. I worked in Anchorage, AK for 18+ years and had a fellow work with me that came from Bismarck, ND. We though he was a little off in the brain pan because when we would get snow and cold wx in Anchorage, he was still wearing just T-shirt and shorts. Then he showed up at work one day with with a copy of a story about a weather event that had recently occurred in Bismarck. My God man, the recorded wind velocities and temps would put Fairbanks to shame.

Still didn't convince me to wear T-shirt & shorts in cold wx but I could certainly see where his frame of reference came from.

 

[EddieWalker]

If you drop a round bale into a field for livestock to eat it, would you have to remove the netting or string around it first? How do you do that in a helicopter? Or do they do that before loading them?

 

[oosik]

Many, many years ago the Game Dept in WA would feed hay to the deer & elk. Idea was - keep them from starving and help keep them out of orchards and causing damage to fruit trees. I know they and the military worked together on remote drops. I remember one video in particular - small square bales out of a C-130(or something like that). The bales must have still been "tied" when dropped because they split open like a ripe cantaloupe when they hit the ground.