Round bales and hills

[Anonymous-0]

While driving to our property today passed through some hilly parts of Culpeper and Rapahannock Countys. Plenty of hay being made. It occurred to me-do round bales ever get away? I suppose you'd have to be careful where you'd set em down. Anybody ever have one roll off?

 

[Anonymous-0]

South Texas supposedly had a 500 year flood in 1998. The uphill neighbors fields of round bales found my parents field fences during the downpour. Burned off the remains a couple of months ago. Don't know about gravity but flood waters can and will carry round bales.

 

[730 virgil]

i had a guy tell me his first time making round bales he dropped one out of baler and it rolled all the way down a hill over a fence and ended up on a road.
after that he would either go to top or bottom of hill and dump the bale.

 

[msb]

Was that in Kentucky? I remember a Deere service rep telling that story in service school shortly after Deere came out with a round baler.

 

[730 virgil]

no that happened in stephenson co il. lots of people think il is flat but we have some hills in the northwest part and along the mississippi river.
my 30 acres is considered highly erodable because of the slope of the land.
the southwest part of stephenson there is ground that should not be used for crops only pasture as it is steep.

 

[Anonymous-0]

In one of my fields I have hill and it goes in a little valley and goes up big hill and the around balls roll down in the valley. It is nice because they line up in a row making it easier to be picked up.

 

[Anonymous-0]

Just part of the game around here. (ne kansas) Gotta be careful is all I can say.

 

[old]

Yes they can and will roll a long ways and run over any thing in the way. My self when I bale I drop them off in one place close to the hay barn. I figure it doesn't take any more gas to drop them out of the baler where I want them then it does to take the loader over to move them so I just drop them out where I need to have them and save the problem
Hobby farm

 

[Anonymous-0]

I've had bales roll in to fences when dumping. I've seen some in ponds in this area. Have to be careful to not turn the baler over. On the side of hills if you hit a groundhog hole the baler will bounce and I've seen mine on one wheel a time or two.

Around here you need tractor weight for haying. Baler can push the tractor down hills.

 

[Tradititonal Farmer]

I live in the northern part of Albemarle County with plenty of hills.If its really steep I pull out of the windrow to tie and dump the bale in a place that it won't roll.

 

[IH2444]

An advantage vs a disadvantage ?
It makes the rolls easy to gather an store down in the hollers

 

[Ron in AR]

In the past 4 years, I've put about four of them in one or another of the ponds we have. Seems one turns itself around in the wrong direction now and then.

 

[Anonymous-0]

My neighbor needed some help back in early July, had 35-40 acres baled up, one guy did some large squares and another did small round ones. I stayed on the tractor gathering and loading them out onto his big grain truck. All the fields were hills, some of which I skidded the big squares to where they were safe to handle, same with the small rounds. I had a bunch gathered up at the crest of a good size hill, only flat area in the field, was several hundred maybe a 1000 yards to the bottom, where it was planted in corn, I managed to get one rolling, thinking about that same question you asked here, it started rolling, and slowly gaining speed, but being pretty good on a tractor/front end loader, and the fact that I was close enough, soon as it started to roll, the chase was on, I safely outran it and got the spear in front of it, it came to a stop, it would have made a nice path through the corn though. I figured I'd give it a try, if the thing had picked up any more speed, or was one of the big rounds, I'd have let it go, somehow I knew I could get it, without risking turning over the tractor or anything of the sort, it really did not get that far, I would have posted a photo, but I can't get into the hosting site for my photos at the moment. Was the first time I had ever handled those large bales, enjoyed the entire day spent in those fields, got em all in the barn before the rain the following day.

 

[kyhayman]

I'll lose a few every year. Its almost a ritual after baling three of my fields to get the skid loader and go fish them off the fence, out of the holler, etc. Seems no matter how careful I am one or two will get away. Of course, for some folks these fields are steep, slopes upwards of 25% and breaking in two directions.

 

[centralilbaler]

My first experience with this happend with the first big round that i rolled up. It rolled about 100 feet and settled in a gulley next to the hay field. A quick lesson for me to watch were i'm dumping them out!