ive hauled the big bales and round bales those are cake its these little bales im worried about... i have overr 20 straps with me i hope that is enough i know it is green so it shouldn't be to high
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Hay hauling question
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This is what I would suggest. I worked in the hay fields when I was a teenager. The biggest trick to hauling hay is staggering or "tying it in" together. A bale is typicality 2' X 4'. So one bale is as long as two are wide. Just stack two across, two long ways. But you still have to make sure you get those straps on each row if your going very far. Try to make the entire top row run the same way as the trailer. Don't lay the top row cross ways the trailer. That way you only need half the straps. One strap per bale row.
It will settle IF you pull it down tight & you don't get any movement. The more it moves, the more its going to move & eventually get so loose it will spill. But if its stacked tight & strapped tight, it will settle into itself.
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And check that load, cause like I said, if it ever gets loose.... its going to move & the more it moves the more & more it will move & eventually will topple over & spill. Just keep a check on it.
Oh, just don't pull your straps so much that it cuts into the bale a lot. If it does & you keep tightening it, you will eventually tighten it down to the strings that hold the bales together (to create the bale) & it will cut or break those hay strings. Then the bale will come apart & it will spill.
Hope this helps
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