help dad stack the bales easier

[Man_in_black]

We use four spikes, long ones each end, dead easy.

 

[digger64]

Oh dear, oh dear, oh dear. You'll all have the H&S stazi after you. It's a big no no to stack bales in vertical columns, they must be stacked on their side, pyramid fashion.

Tbh a lot of the straw we are getting nowadays (smashed up before baling ) needs to be handled with the soft hands as spikes aren't safe and break the bales as they are moved around .

 

[ricky_rascal]

Oh dear, oh dear, oh dear. You'll all have the H&S stazi after you. It's a big no no to stack bales in vertical columns, they must be stacked on their side, pyramid fashion.

And if in a shed room has to be left between shed walls and stacked bales. Evidently stacked bales have given way and forced the side of shed out killing some poor sod who happened to be in the wrong place at the wrong time. A friend of mine got an 'invite' to one of their meetings. Another interesting fact he learned was that 75% of their invites are ignored by farmers. Anyhoo, becarefull stacking those bales in columns.

 

[Bury the Trash]

If you're having trouble pulling out ( ohhh matron ) just use one spike. If you're stacking bean can fashion, try and spike, and crowd up a bit, place on the stack, and lower the spikes out, rather than pulling out level, and toppling the bale back off the stack.

Chaps in pfi had made simple push off spikes.

 

[Optimus]

We stack all our straw bales using the dung grab nice an easy .stack them all bean can ,outside only occasionally do they move.just bought a Murray bale stacker for the shed as you have to watch roof when using the dung grab.

 

[bluebell]

got a mchale bale spike, used it without slieves, to spike two 4ft hay bales at a time to load onto trailer in field, then unload two at atime into shed, stacking bales like bean cans, top ones you spike on side of bale can stack 4 high with loader tractor

 

[michael N123]

got a mchale bale spike, used it without slieves, to spike two 4ft hay bales at a time to load onto trailer in field, then unload two at atime into shed, stacking bales like bean cans, top ones you spike on side of bale can stack 4 high with loader tractor

That’s same as what I do/use

 

[Agrispeed]

If you use a dung grab you can pick up 4 round bales at once off a trailer, rotate and stack like bean cans... Tractor doesn't like it much though, my grab alone weighs 360kg!