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.
That is all.

 

Looks good Adam. You know you can get 1 more roll on the front if you want to.

 

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?

 

Nice pics Adam.

I see you're enjoying this gorgeous weather we've been having...

 

Any idea on how much weight that is on the trailer? The truck isnt even squatting. I wish I had some pics of my truck with a big load on it. Good looking rig!!!!!

 

First off, what do you use bailed corn stalks for? Second, looking at the ground, it looks like it must pretty cold there. That is frost on the ground is it not?

 

Bedding for cattle

 

Where are you from GhettoHick, wandering what Ghetto gets you that name.

 

14 tons? That's a nice trailer.

 

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.

 

Nice pics Adam.

 

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.

 

It's easiest, but they were baled a week or so after it was combined, with one or two rains on it. Not ideal at all.

I don't think the bales are quite 1,000 lbs. I just got the skid steer, and it handles the bales so easily that it's hard to tell. My anti-squat measures are thanks to airbags.

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.

 

Missing the Colorado sunshine, eh?

 

Nice looking Rig..