How to load hay bales onto a trailer?
are there any methods of work or risk assessments for this
Answers:
1 at a time
Yep dont stack em too close to the exhaust pipe of the truck i set em on fire doing that .
fork it, then hi ho it onto trailor
lift
What type of bales please? Small square , big square, big round? whatever type of bale rule 1 is rope your load down.
Don't forget to set the knotter trip on the baler to make bales twice the length of the actual width of the bale , or slightly shorter, never longer than twice the width or you will have problems stacking them. The usual way is to put the first layer across the width of the trailer, in twos, then for the second layer , the outer bales at right angles to the first layer ( i.e. the long axis of the bales running along the length of the trailer.) with one in the middle at right angles to those (ie same way as layer 1 ) to trap them. layer 3 is like layer 1, layer 4 is like layer 2 and so on, thus bonding them like bricks. after 5 or 6 layers, close them in to form a roof.
The traditional way to get down off a loaded trailer was after the load was finished it was secured with a rope,across the front and back ends( maybe across the middle of the load if it was a long trailer ) After the rope had been securely tied to the cleats, the stacker climbed down the rope. Taking a ladder with you was a safer alternative..
MarQus1 Yes big bales, round or square ARE stacked onto trailers. Been there done that!
with ur hands and arms and lots of sweat
Haha, I used to work at a farm dealership (and am off a farm) and this farmer came in cos he pushed his fork lift straight through his back window.he he..so, make sure you have sensible judgement. Also, make sure it's always a secured load, properly tied down, or you'll get your bum kicked. :)
Depends which bales you're talking about - if you're talking about the old 18" X 18" X 36" bales, there were 3 ways of picking them up,
1. People would manually throw them up (basic pick up and swinging action) - we'd usually stack them starting from the back of the trailer in a staircase fashion so that we could carry them up and stack the full trailer up.
2. When the baler passed by, there was an attachment to leave them in stacks of 6 and then a tractor with a special fork could pass by and pick them up 6 at a time and dump them into a trailer. These new trailers had sides on them, so it was not necessary to stack the bales properly.
3. Then there was also the "ejector" which would take the bales straight from the baler and throw them directly into an attached trailer.
If you're talking about the new jumbo bales (round or rectangular) , they're not put onto trailers, they're left in the field or transported one by one or loaded about a dozen at a time with a tractor on a flatbed and either wrapped in plastic or placed underneath an open shelter.
Toodles
i
one bale at a time. he stays up there till he passes them all back down again
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Answers:
1 at a time
Yep dont stack em too close to the exhaust pipe of the truck i set em on fire doing that .
fork it, then hi ho it onto trailor
lift
What type of bales please? Small square , big square, big round? whatever type of bale rule 1 is rope your load down.
Don't forget to set the knotter trip on the baler to make bales twice the length of the actual width of the bale , or slightly shorter, never longer than twice the width or you will have problems stacking them. The usual way is to put the first layer across the width of the trailer, in twos, then for the second layer , the outer bales at right angles to the first layer ( i.e. the long axis of the bales running along the length of the trailer.) with one in the middle at right angles to those (ie same way as layer 1 ) to trap them. layer 3 is like layer 1, layer 4 is like layer 2 and so on, thus bonding them like bricks. after 5 or 6 layers, close them in to form a roof.
The traditional way to get down off a loaded trailer was after the load was finished it was secured with a rope,across the front and back ends( maybe across the middle of the load if it was a long trailer ) After the rope had been securely tied to the cleats, the stacker climbed down the rope. Taking a ladder with you was a safer alternative..
MarQus1 Yes big bales, round or square ARE stacked onto trailers. Been there done that!
with ur hands and arms and lots of sweat
Haha, I used to work at a farm dealership (and am off a farm) and this farmer came in cos he pushed his fork lift straight through his back window.he he..so, make sure you have sensible judgement. Also, make sure it's always a secured load, properly tied down, or you'll get your bum kicked. :)
Depends which bales you're talking about - if you're talking about the old 18" X 18" X 36" bales, there were 3 ways of picking them up,
1. People would manually throw them up (basic pick up and swinging action) - we'd usually stack them starting from the back of the trailer in a staircase fashion so that we could carry them up and stack the full trailer up.
2. When the baler passed by, there was an attachment to leave them in stacks of 6 and then a tractor with a special fork could pass by and pick them up 6 at a time and dump them into a trailer. These new trailers had sides on them, so it was not necessary to stack the bales properly.
3. Then there was also the "ejector" which would take the bales straight from the baler and throw them directly into an attached trailer.
If you're talking about the new jumbo bales (round or rectangular) , they're not put onto trailers, they're left in the field or transported one by one or loaded about a dozen at a time with a tractor on a flatbed and either wrapped in plastic or placed underneath an open shelter.
Toodles
i
one bale at a time. he stays up there till he passes them all back down again
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