Farm Handler on Road

kincaid

There is a guy on our road that has a farm handler and carries 2 silage bales up the road to his farm nearly 3 miles away and sometimes he all over the road as I think the 2 bales kind of restricts his view of the road.
How many bales would you suppose to carry with this machine, just seems like an accident waiting to happen as they seem fairly quick too on the road

bob charles

kincaid wrote: »

There is a guy on our road that has a farm handler and carries 2 silage bales up the road to his farm nearly 3 miles away and sometimes he all over the road as I think the 2 bales kind of restricts his view of the road.
How many bales would you suppose to carry with this machine, just seems like an accident waiting to happen as they seem fairly quick too on the road

2 bales would be well within the payload of such a machine, They are 4 wheel steer so if you were driving after them they may look all over the road, alternatively he could just be a crap driver

yellow50HX

kincaid wrote: »

There is a guy on our road that has a farm handler and carries 2 silage bales up the road to his farm nearly 3 miles away and sometimes he all over the road as I think the 2 bales kind of restricts his view of the road.
How many bales would you suppose to carry with this machine, just seems like an accident waiting to happen as they seem fairly quick too on the road

i assume your talking about a telehandler or telescopic loader. most of these have a lift of 2 ton or more. i used to often carry two bales on the digger to cattle up the road. kept them low to the road a could see perfectly out over them, wouldnt be goign that faster as the weight ould be too much. use chooped bales now and they are much heavyier, i can still lift 2 but only do that for short distances, wouldnt chance it on the road

lakill Farm

some of them jcb 414 loading shovels for the pit can do plus 40kph. Use to get it hard to stay up with them moving from 1 farm to another on good roads.

GY A1

kincaid wrote: »

There is a guy on our road that has a farm handler and carries 2 silage bales up the road to his farm nearly 3 miles away and sometimes he all over the road as I think the 2 bales kind of restricts his view of the road.
How many bales would you suppose to carry with this machine, just seems like an accident waiting to happen as they seem fairly quick too on the road

as u say its more about his view of the road, and is it safe carrying the 2 on the front, possibly only 1 spike holding each bale, so what also if it falls off while flying down the road,

jay gatsby

The weight wouldn't be much of an issue to one of these, as long as the bales are well anchored to the forks.

The non artic ones - the usual issue is lads don't bother switching them out of 4 wheel steer so every nudge of the wheel shoots the machine around.

they are a big bus on small roads though and the visibility out of the side boom machines ain't so hot especially with 2 bales.

GY A1

jay gatsby wrote: »

The weight wouldn't be much of an issue to one of these, as long as the bales are well anchored to the forks.

The non artic ones - the usual issue is lads don't bother switching them out of 4 wheel steer so every nudge of the wheel shoots the machine around.

they are a big bus on small roads though and the visibility out of the side boom machines ain't so hot especially with 2 bales.

agree it probably can handle the weight no prob, but is it safe

maidhc

GY A1 wrote: »

agree it probably can handle the weight no prob, but is it safe

No, don't think so, but probably perfectly legal.

Lambofdave

If its a manitou he is driving is can be common that they don't line up the wheels properly, you should not be driving with four wheel steer ever on the road

mf240

The back roads are brutal around here but the only vehicles I dread meeting are micras starlets corsas ect.

Was drawing bales one day and met a lady with a micra. In her stuggle to pull into a gateway she ended up facing back the way she came:eek::eek:. It was like watching a poddle trying to peel an orange.:o