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<blockquote data-quote="Two Tone" data-source="post: 8202582" data-attributes="member: 44728"><p>In 1972, L E Tuckwell’s of Worlingworth, Suffolk sold my father a Farmhand Flat 8 bale system. The sledge was driven by a hydraulic pump on the PTO of the baler. We had a Farmhand F11 loader and flat 8 grab on a MF 175 working at the stack yard end and a Quickie loader with another flat 8 grab on an MF165 in the field. </p><p>We were dairy and arable and baled about 15,000 hay bales (barn dried) and about 20,000 straw bales. A driver on each loader and somebody shifting trailers, would shift about 2,000 bales a day.</p><p></p><p>In the last 24 hours, with Mrs Two Tone helping me from lunch time today, I/we have shifted 2,564 bales in 6 fields to 2 stacks, using a JCB 320S, loading in the field AND stacking at the farmyard. Towing a trailer that carries 18 packs of 8 bales (144 bales) and an extra 8 on the grab, being 152 bales. Val, my Mrs , joined in using an Ifor Willian’s flat trailer, carrying 100 bales towed by the farm’s Disco 3.</p><p></p><p>The key to the whole thing is the articulated telescopic loader and using a rope, Not straps to hold the load on the trailer for speed. The trailer has an angled front rave. Starting an the back RHS, I throw the rope over the top to about half way along the LHS middle. Using a Half hitch to secure, I then throw the rope over the middle, half hitching again, then from the RHS middle to the LHS rear, half hitching again. The beauty of these knots is that they come apart quickly when taking the rope off. So I don’t need to waste time rolling up any straps.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Two Tone, post: 8202582, member: 44728"] In 1972, L E Tuckwell’s of Worlingworth, Suffolk sold my father a Farmhand Flat 8 bale system. The sledge was driven by a hydraulic pump on the PTO of the baler. We had a Farmhand F11 loader and flat 8 grab on a MF 175 working at the stack yard end and a Quickie loader with another flat 8 grab on an MF165 in the field. We were dairy and arable and baled about 15,000 hay bales (barn dried) and about 20,000 straw bales. A driver on each loader and somebody shifting trailers, would shift about 2,000 bales a day. In the last 24 hours, with Mrs Two Tone helping me from lunch time today, I/we have shifted 2,564 bales in 6 fields to 2 stacks, using a JCB 320S, loading in the field AND stacking at the farmyard. Towing a trailer that carries 18 packs of 8 bales (144 bales) and an extra 8 on the grab, being 152 bales. Val, my Mrs , joined in using an Ifor Willian’s flat trailer, carrying 100 bales towed by the farm’s Disco 3. The key to the whole thing is the articulated telescopic loader and using a rope, Not straps to hold the load on the trailer for speed. The trailer has an angled front rave. Starting an the back RHS, I throw the rope over the top to about half way along the LHS middle. Using a Half hitch to secure, I then throw the rope over the middle, half hitching again, then from the RHS middle to the LHS rear, half hitching again. The beauty of these knots is that they come apart quickly when taking the rope off. So I don’t need to waste time rolling up any straps. [/QUOTE]
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