Bale transporters.

Pacoa

What do yee think of these types of bale transporters?

http://www.donedeal.ie/for-sale/machinery/3844965

Are they any good or would the bales fall off them on the road?

ZETOR_IS_BETTER

Had a similar one myself, found them too rock the bales too much side to side. I used to be able to carry around 20 hay/straw. Also for tying for down the load not many great anchor points on it.

Changed back to the flat bed.

hoochis

If you have a loader to load the bales then the flatbed is much better. They can be a right pain to load if the bales lose their shape.

ZETOR_IS_BETTER

hoochis wrote: »

If you have a loader to load the bales then the flatbed is much better. They can be a right pain to load if the bales lose their shape.

Thats a big turn off actually. Forgot to mention that

Its very difficult to load them if you have one tractor cause you will just lift the trailer up in the air when you put the bales on and it will shift around.

Also from memory if you are working with one tractor and on soft ground you will drive the draw bar stand into the ground from the trailer hopping up and down

reilig

Pacoa wrote: »

What do yee think of these types of bale transporters?

http://www.donedeal.ie/for-sale/machinery/3844965

Are they any good or would the bales fall off them on the road?

We have one for 10 years now. Its a great time saver. We draw all bales to thw stacking point for wrapping. They are easy loaded. You can load wrapped bales on to them without damaging the wrap. Ours is pulled after the MF35 with no bother.

I don't agree with the other posters - these types of trailers are for carrying 6 or 8 bales - not for loading high with hay or silage. When loading, you put on the front bales first to stop them from tipping up. Ours has a large flat plate on the drawbar stand to stop it sinking into the ground.

The advantage of them is that you can load and unload bales quickly, and can transport them without the need to tie them. If you're drawing bales a long distance, buy a flat bed. If you're looking for a trailer to transport bales around the farm then one of these is a cheap and extremely useful buy!!

Conor556

If you get 1 make sure the pipe is welded on top of the chassis cause the end of the bales will b sitting on the box iron and can tear the bales. Thats what I found with the 1 you showed us, But a handy sized flatbed i thik would be better, and can be used for fertilizer and other things.

Pacoa

I'd be drawing on the road so i guess the flatbed would be a better choice.
Thanks for the replies lads.