[AT] October

[David Bruce]

I lease the pasture and hayfields here to a young man who runs some 
cattle and has a decent sized haying operation.  He moves his haybales 
(both round and square bales) with a 24 foot gooseneck trailer.  When he 
is working alone he uses a 3 point hitch adapter on the loader tractor 
to attach the trailer.  He pulls into the field with haybales to gather, 
drops the trailer and get to work loading.  If he has help (his dad 
primarily) they pull the gooseneck with a dually truck using one loader 
tractor in the filed and another at the storage site.  I suspect they 
found they could save time by pulling the trailer with the truck rather 
than the tractor - and since most of this travel is on paved roads the 
tractor tires last longer.

David
NW NC

On 10/23/2011 2:59 PM, Ralph Goff wrote:
> On 10/23/2011 8:48 AM, Dean Vinson wrote:
>> Ralph, very nice video of your Super 90.  As much as I enjoy dinking around
>> the neighborhood on the SM, what it really needs is some honest work to do.
>> That's a nice hay-hauling trailer in your video--I was wondering how many of
>> those round bales you could get on there, and then late in the video the
>> scene with the wheels still looking good answered my question--or at least
>> partially answered it, as in "at least that many."  That's got to be a lot
>> of weight, although a full load of stacked square bales would be a lot of
>> weight also.  I miss the smell of working with hay.
>>
> Hi Dean  In a previous life that bale trailer was a 1946 Ford 2 ton
> truck that my Dad used to haul grain at harvest time. It makes a good
> strong trailer and we used to haul over 200 square straw bales on it. My
> round bales are not as big as some but I can only safely stack 11 bales
> on this 20 foot trailer. I think it is enough for the age of those old
> truck tires.
>
> Ralph in Sask.
>>
>
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