This was getting a bit greedy.
18ft Bailey with rear bale bumper.
Bales more than 4ft.
18ft Bailey with rear bale bumper.
Bales more than 4ft.
Bale trailer
- Thread starter DanM33
- Start date
Lakesdigger
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No time to waste if @Hfd Cattle sees bales in field...................
- Location
- Yorkshire coast
Most 4' bales are 4'6" and most 5' bales seem to need 5'6" of space. Ours is 25' long so end up with 5 fusion bales plus a 2' gap on the bottom course. If I was buying a new trailer it would be 23' or 28'. Definitely tandem 8 or 10 stud sprung axles and a sprung drawbar.
- Location
- Durham, UK
I run a 26ft marshall on 6 welgers and they just squeeze in nicely (not too tight) so the bales dont move about. Il admit the bales the wife bales are more consistent than mine
- Location
- Wormingford, Essex
Doesn't sound like trailer size is the problem, more like the baler.
James
Member
- Location
- Comber, Down
James
Member
- Location
- Comber, Down
There is no second hand bale trailers available in the spec I want
28 foot Marshall on bogies, BUT flotation radials NOT super single tyres
Drawbar is sprung (same design as brougham, but Marshall locate the spring behind the bulkhead so it doesn't get covered in mud that turns into grinding paste)
The tyres make a huge difference to soil compaction and road comfort. This Marshall is far nicer to pull on the road than sprung axle heron/pf/Marshall on super singles, plus the flotations barely mark wet ground that super singles would wreck
Length wise 26 foot is just enough for 6 haylage bales from McHale/Kuhn soft centre baler. Straw needs another foot longer unless they're from a solid centre baler with a good operator. I bought the extra length 28 foot because it was rated for more weight and came standard with the extremely comfortable sprung drawbar
- Location
- Aberdeenshire
What are your specs? I know I how you feel I'm always struggling to give secondhand equipment to meet my requirements I must be awkward or something or everyone else is on a much larger scale
. Just out of interest how much more straw do you get out of a 5'6ft bale?
I'd imagine their safer to stack than 4'6ft bales...
For me a 23ft double axle sprung drawbarWhat are your specs? I know I how you feel I'm always struggling to give secondhand equipment to meet my requirements I must be awkward or something or everyone else is on a much larger scale
fermerboy
Member
- Location
- Banffshire
I hired a Marshall 28ft a few times before I got lucky and picked up a used Bailey.
The Marshall towed lovely, couldn't fault it at all, bogies at back and sprung at front, hooks(heavy duty 5/8") in the right places at an angle the strap doesn't fall off when strapping yourself. Good trailer.
The Bailey I have is probably better painted and finished but doesn't pull quite so well somehow, and the hooks are in the wrong place (because it's all made of box section you have to use the hooks) It's on springs with mini super singles so maybe that's the difference.
To the OP go for double axle, it's a no brainer, I'd spec that on the smallest of bale trailers.
grainboy
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- Location
- Bedfordshire
Local to me,
Lakesdigger
Member
Just feel like pointing something very obvious out here but there keeps being mention of single or tandem axle. Working on 9 ton axle load by the time you take trailer weight off that wtf could you carry weight wise on a possible 24ft+ trailer with one axle. You won't get a manufacturer to make a single axle trailer at that length anyway i wouldn't think certainly not if you tell them its intended use.
Lakesdigger
Member
Take it that's an older Bailey the sides now are folded plate with slotted holes cut in for the hooks to go into.
- Location
- mid cornwall
As others have said baler makes a massive difference
These are "4ft" roller baler claas bales on our 26ft Marshall
While these are 4ft fixed chamber krone bales on the same trailer, both loads out of the same field
These are "4ft" roller baler claas bales on our 26ft Marshall
While these are 4ft fixed chamber krone bales on the same trailer, both loads out of the same field
I'll bet there's more stuff in the (smaller) krone bales as well !!!
- Location
- mid cornwall
And they don't just fall apart and fill the passageway of the calf shed
- Location
- Aberdeenshire
My 22ft Keith rose bale trailer is a single commercial axle 10 ton rated. I always assumed it was 10t load not 10t total, was I wrong? That's like 50 straw bales or 25 heavy hay bales or 14 silage bales... Which I think it's quite the load...
- Location
- Wormingford, Essex
I'd price a new one before buying one of them. I've a 2021 trailer just like the second one in that ad, and though I understand the new ones have gone up, that's quite a bit more than I paid.