Hard at work -pics
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Hard at work -pics
I was out moving cornstalk bales today and thought the truck was looking pretty clean, so figured I should take some pictures while I had the opportunity. They're with my phone, so they aren't the highest quality.
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Do you have to bale the stalks right after you combine? I'm working for a farmer now, just learning. We harvested about 500 acres of feed corn this fall, but didn't bale any of the stalks. Can you square bale it?
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Here is a story that happened to me with round bales. I work pipeline and am a stringer driver, hauling 80ft 42in pipe from the pipe yard to the right-of-way. I was in Texas near Paris on a Saturday on my way to the right-of-way with two joints of .540 wall pipe when I met a F350 with a goose neck trailer with a load of round bales in a curve. The curve was a left hand for me and I met him in the middle of the curve, he was across the centerline and jerked the truck back into his lane. As he had no straps on the 1500lb bales, 2 bales came off the top, the first hit the road flat side in the road right in front of me and I hit it doing about 40 mph. The second bale came across my hood hit the top of the cab and smashed it down and then went over the headache rack and unrolled
all the way down the pipe and fell on the road about 3ft tall after unrolling.
I went off the road down thru a bar ditch thru a tree line, just hitting a tree with my drivers side mirrow and out into a pasture, don't know how I kept the truck on it's wheels but I did. The truck was totaled, I was unhurt but every time I meet round bales on a truck I get nervous.
all the way down the pipe and fell on the road about 3ft tall after unrolling.
I went off the road down thru a bar ditch thru a tree line, just hitting a tree with my drivers side mirrow and out into a pasture, don't know how I kept the truck on it's wheels but I did. The truck was totaled, I was unhurt but every time I meet round bales on a truck I get nervous.
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I work at Norfolk Iron & metal in Norfolk. There is a guy that has a CC dually 7.3 red,he pulls at one time 17 hay bales. Now that has to have some weight to it! His friend(in a dodge)pulls out with only 11. I love hearing the ol Ford labor,it's such a sweet sound.
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I'll be using these for feed, help supplement the hay during winter. I did small square bales for bedding, they are a lot easier to manage. And yes, that is frost/snow on the ground. It's been flurrying for the last two days. It was 11* this morning.
