How many small squares on a 25’ gooseneck trailer?

[rockyridgefarm]

I need to deliver a load of small squares 45 miles into Iowa. Much too far to pull my rickety old hay racks. Guess how many. Then guess how many straps I used.

 

[mtf]

I quess 250 bales and one long strap down the middle. Nathan

 

[Tony in SD]

about 250 would be a full load

 

[casecollectorsc]

That is a lot different than we used to stack. Nothing tied together in each tier of bales your way. Guess to each their own...

 

[matthies]

8-10 straps

 

[Loosehandle]

I need to deliver a load of small squares 45 miles into Iowa. Much too far to pull my rickety old hay racks. Guess how many. Then guess how many straps I used.View attachment 3855View attachment 3856View attachment 3857

225 and 6 straps. What are you getting per bale these days?

 

[jon f mn]

260 and no straps

 

[rockyridgefarm]

260 and no straps

A local once told me that straps are for amateurs. I told him that I must be an amateur.

 

[rockyridgefarm]

That is a lot different than we used to stack. Nothing tied together in each tier of bales your way. Guess to each their own...

I don’t regularly stack bales on an open trailer, so I don’t really know how to do it right. I depended on the straps to tie them together.

 

[rockyridgefarm]

225 and 6 straps. What are you getting per bale these days?

6.50. Not worth it. I coulda big squared it and got more money per ton. These had been for sale since the day I made them in September.

 

[RJKeith]

270 and I must be an amateur because I would have used 10 straps.

 

[DRussell]

300 bales. 9 straps.

 

[Tgrasher]

212 bales and four straps made into two going front to back with two more traversing the front and rear.

 

[BarnyardEngineering]

I don’t regularly stack bales on an open trailer, so I don’t really know how to do it right. I depended on the straps to tie them together.

For future reference look at it like building a brick wall or installing shingles. Cover up the seams of the previous layer with the next layer. Like in your layers you went wide long wide. On the second layer, I'd do wide wide long. The third would be long wide wide. Then back to wide long wide. That way no more than two layers of hay are stacked directly on top of one another without one "tying" the bales together.

I see two wagons and they're stacked, second one not quite empty. So I'm going to guess 342 bales, and 16 straps.

 

[Eric in IL]

I need to deliver a load of small squares 45 miles into Iowa. Much too far to pull my rickety old hay racks. Guess how many. Then guess how many straps I used.View attachment 3855View attachment 3856View attachment 3857

186 with 5 straps.

 

[rockyridgefarm]

There were 8 ranks of 30 with 24 bales on the top, totaling 268 bales. I had a strap on every rank, plus two straps pulling forward on the last rank. Total of 10 straps.

RJKieth is the closest, so he wins the no prize! Thanks for playing, and good evening.

 

[DoubleR]

I need to deliver a load of small squares 45 miles into Iowa. Much too far to pull my rickety old hay racks. Guess how many. Then guess how many straps I used.View attachment 3855View attachment 3856View attachment 3857

260 bales 8 straps

 

[Scott 730]

Did you make enough money to fix the hole in the trailer deck?

 

[1948CaseVAI]

I don’t regularly stack bales on an open trailer, so I don’t really know how to do it right. I depended on the straps to tie them together.

In my 20 year ccareer I never worked traffic or wrote many tickets, but if I saw that nightmare trailer on the highway the driver would get a ticket and tow truck called. If the driver was rude then Waste Management would be called and the value of the hay would be added to the fine.

 

[rockyridgefarm]

Did you make enough money to fix the hole in the trailer deck?

Holes doesn’t bother me, why should it bother you?