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mruggles Reg. Oct 2008	Posted 2014-02-18 4:46 PM Subject: RE: how do you move your round bales?
Good Grief! Posts: 6343 Location: Cap'n Joan Rotgut.....alberta	we use the tractor......the cows get it dumped in the feeders and the horses get it forked to them every morning and night...... m
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dianeguinn Reg. Oct 2003	Posted 2014-02-18 4:54 PM Subject: RE: how do you move your round bales?
Lady Di Posts: 21556 Location: Oklahoma	Bale spear on the back of the tractor.
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cow pie Reg. Nov 2009	Posted 2014-02-18 9:23 PM Subject: RE: how do you move your round bales?
Sock eating dog owner Posts: 4557 Location: Where the pavement ends and the West begins Utah	My hay guy loads with his tractor. When we get home we shoot them(2) off the truck. Then honey and I become the line backers and push that bail on it's side or out of a mud hole. In the winter sometimes we'll drop one in the pasture and pull it off the bed by tying to a tree, no traction in the snow. If twine is used I leave it on till it's no longer useful. If it's netting we pull it off. Sometimes drag it or push it with the truck.
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cow pie Reg. Nov 2009	Posted 2014-02-18 9:23 PM Subject: RE: how do you move your round bales?
Sock eating dog owner Posts: 4557 Location: Where the pavement ends and the West begins Utah	My hay guy loads with his tractor. When we get home we shoot them(2) off the truck. Then honey and I become the line backers and push that bail on it's side or out of a mud hole. In the winter sometimes we'll drop one in the pasture and pull it off the bed by tying to a tree, no traction in the snow. If twine is used I leave it on till it's no longer useful. If it's netting we pull it off. Sometimes drag it or push it with the truck.
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Morab76 Reg. Feb 2008	Posted 2014-02-18 10:37 PM Subject: RE: how do you move your round bales?
Ms. Manners Posts: 1820 Location: Oklahoma	I used a single bale buggy before my hubby bought me a hydraulic bale spik for my truck for Christmas. Best investment ever! I have in-cab control, and it attaches/sits on my gooseneck ball hitch. LOVE IT! I can get bales moved faster and placed in more places than with the bale buggy. Before the spike, there was a time I broke the winch on my bale buggy. I ended up using a metal tube gate as a sled - rolled the bales off and on and used a chain attached to my hitch to drag it. Great for those times when there is no other option, but definitely the most labor intensive.
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runs4fun Reg. Oct 2006	Posted 2014-02-19 6:45 AM Subject: RE: how do you move your round bales?
	Spear on front of tractor.
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BabyJ Reg. Aug 2013	Posted 2014-02-19 7:02 AM Subject: RE: how do you move your round bales?
Veteran Posts: 173 Location: Somewhere over the rainbow	Hubby and I are pretty good bale movers by now. But we are eaky 50's in great shape. I wouldn't reccommend fr everyone. Our horse farm is our gym. Or is our gym our hose farm... I get that confused.
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rockinas Reg. Sep 2003	Posted 2014-02-19 8:16 AM Subject: RE: how do you move your round bales?
Best of the Badlands Location: You never know where I will show up......	Tractor and/or skid loader...... whatever is handy here. We use those CinchChix hay nets for the bales that are put in the rings and use the tractor or loader to get the bales in the nets. Some horses we just fork to morning and night so that bale is just set close to the corrals so that can be done easily. Edited by rockinas 2014-02-19 8:19 AM
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hoofs_in_motion Reg. Apr 2011	Posted 2014-02-19 2:25 PM Subject: RE: how do you move your round bales?
Undercover Amish Mafia Member Posts: 9992 Location: Kansas	Skidloader, or just drag it in with the truck
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GoinJettin Reg. Feb 2005	Posted 2014-02-19 9:19 PM Subject: RE: how do you move your round bales?
Night Watchman Posts: 5516 Location: Central Montana	Carbon Copy - 2014-02-18 9:39 AM I put a rope around it and pull it with my truck where ever I want it. Here too. We have it delivered, usually around 13-17 ton of rounds and about 6 ton of small squares. We don't have a tractor. The "hay guys" set them up on poles for us to get them off the ground (helps keep the bottom from getting totally soaked and moldy during the spring rain) and we just hook them up and move them into the pens with the truck.
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