Creating a turn around area for truck deliveries

If the yellow is where you plan unloading, just triple the width of your drive 100' before and after (200' total) the center of your unload area. Unload area should be at least 40' X 100', providing your not storing on the unload pad. Think 3 lane street going bother ways of the T. If a driver can't back/pull onto a 3 lane street, he deserves tire damage.

 

Created a driveway at the house


Maybe a visual help? This is what I did.

 

Seems doable to me? I haul 2 loads of hay a week….
Where is the final destination of the hay in this diagram?

 

Who worries about “scrubbing tires” on a gravel pad? If you are, lift the dang axle….. hay’s not that heavy that you couldn’t do that.

I’m more worried about getting hay in there on a double or triple, but maybe they aren’t permitted in this location.

 

Wondering how many trailers actually have lift axles?

 

I could fit 36 bales on this trailer and if they were good tight bales with good grass and a little alfalfa it was about a 60k payload. I wouldn’t be real keen on having to jack knife into a driveway unless I was empty.

The place in question is in Colorado so single trailer only.

 

Don’t see much round bales around here anymore. Plus CO is pretty much 80K max, unless you stay off the interstate. Legal width square bales on a 53 isn’t going to hit 80K

 

I've hauled several loads of squares on my 48 that i could only run 36 because of weight. Crazy how much difference I've seen.

I've had loads of 36 bales weigh in at 38k, all the way up to 47.5k. A 53 would have easily been overweight at 39 bales

 

The majority of people in the Midwest are set up to feed round bales, and if they don’t run them through a processor they roll them out on the ground. A lot of the hay that gets sold and hauled is round bales because the ranchers are selling their excess hay. Big squares are few and far between because not many people are feeding them out here and there aren’t many operations that strictly put up hay to sell it. And we all know legal weight means nothing when it pays by the ton.

When I first bought that Freightliner it was winter of 2011/2012 and Texas was real dry. They were letting us run at night to get hay down there and I paid my truck off in a couple months running to TX with 55-60k on just as fast as I could get down and back up home for another one.

 

*shrug* not worried about the tires on gravel, more respectful of the ruts the tires will carve into the gravel. New rock is easy to level but, after a while, the ruts become potholes. Not all spreads have lift axles, that's why I'm careful making the turn at the bottom of my own drive.