Bale/General Purpose Trailer For 100HP Tractor

[Newby]

I'm looking for a trailer for leading bales but also general purpose flat trailer jobs, I've got a 100HP tractor and there are no hills for miles around.
I'm a relative newcomer to all things tractor and trailer, it's never been my department before.
What length and width do I look for?

 

[holwellcourtfarm]

I do just that here with a 26 foot body trailer on tandem axles. She grunts a bit pulling 18 silage round bales up hills (two rows of 6 beside each other on the bottom with one central row on top) but handles 24 round straw bales well or a 12 tonne load. Any longer and it'd be a bit cumbersome.

 

[neilo]

I'm looking for a trailer for leading bales but also general purpose flat trailer jobs, I've got a 100HP tractor and there are no hills for miles around.
I'm a relative newcomer to all things tractor and trailer, it's never been my department before.
What length and width do I look for?

Widths are all pretty standard at 8’, I’d have thought.

As to length, how good is your access in and out of gateways? I have a 24’ NC which is plenty long enough turning into some of our access gates. I get 3 8’ quads lengthways, as a tight/stable fit, giving 24 bales to a load. If you’re moving rounds, particularly wrapped, I get 5 bales long on either side, otherwise i’d Be snagging them when unloading.

As above, could get 3 more on every load on a 26’ trailer, but I wouldn’t get onto one block of land and I draw mine with a Merlo so wouldn’t want to load her up any more.

Once decided on size, buy the best spec you can afford (hence I only have an NC ).

 

[Northeastfarmer]

I have a 25 foot bailey...but as most women will tell you....the bigger the better
Next one will be 30ft

 

[gatepost]

2 Marshall 21ft here,18 or 20 4ft rounds behind 85hp loader, spin them around, get into most gateways and pull up a lot of banks.

 

[Nithsdale]

I have a 25 foot bailey...but as most women will tell you....the bigger the better
Next one will be 30ft

Bigger is better, right upto the point you start ripping the sides out getting it in



24' is almost too big here

 

[AvonValleyFarmer]

I wouldn't be as concerned with what it can pull as opposed to what it can stop. 32ft trailers seem to be the norm here, bar a few dolly 40ft the contractors use. Access and roads don't tend to be a problem though.

I have a little 21ft for leading on farm, just the job but never goes on the road.

 

[holwellcourtfarm]

I wouldn't be as concerned with what it can pull as opposed to what it can stop. 32ft trailers seem to be the norm here, bar a few dolly 40ft the contractors use. Access and roads don't tend to be a problem though.

I have a little 21ft for leading on farm, just the job but never goes on the road.

Agreed. They should at least have fully functional hydraulic brakes to all wheels behind a 40k tractor. Air brakes would be a nice extra but a 100hp tractor is unlikely to have air brakes.