Round Baling + Slopes = Headache

[Muck Spreader]

I manage to drop a bale in this pond every year

Sometimes I can get it with a loader tractor other times I can't.

 

[Chae1]

Having lost a straw bale in local river gillie started moaning. Didn t see it would do any harm myself. Anyway to get it out chap a loader tine in each side tie rope round each tine then pull. It will roll out nicely. Think the arsehole was disappointed how easily I got it out.

 

[Y Fan Wen]

Paddling the Severn with Scouts one year, we came across at least a half dozen of wrapped bales. They were all aground on the shallow bars.
Twice, next door has lost bales through our boundary fence and into the nant. No way accessible from our side and it is a miniature cliff on his side. He takes the wrap off and leaves them.
Neighbour on the other side of the valley got a bale rolling on release and there was an A road at the bottom of the field. He told me that he got out of the tractor and hunkered down under the wheel to wait for the bang. It hurdled the road without touching and destroyed the fence on the other side.

 

[davedb]

the local contractor around these parts put one though someones conservatory once

 

[Giles1]

Contractor our way tried to stop a silage bale rolling down a hill,went right over him.Quite sore for some weeks.......

 

[Big Ted]

todays baling, pain in the arse these slopes

 

[Granite Farmer]

I have like that to do this weekend. Anyway it isn't steep if you can turn at the top and bottom.

 

[Robigus]

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todays baling, pain in the arse these slopes

Looks to me that it made your job easier getting them all collected at the bottom

 

[MF565]

Not too bad, you know its steep when big square bales come out the chamber then roll 120ft down hill before stopping. Was out a few years ago on a field like that, made bale wrapping easy though, most were at or near the bottom of the hill.

 

[wdah/him]

big t do u just open the door when going up hill, i like doing that if they are hay or straw with no risk saves a lot of time that would be much steeper than it looks but i have been on stuff like it before and at least it is normally dry when it is steep.

 

[ILovebaling]

I don't count the hill as steep until I'm square baling across a bang side and they start rolling down them as well

 

[Big Ted]

we had 1 or 2 escape, some rolled and some went end over end

 

[multi power]

@Big Ted hows the rake going?

 

[roscoe erf]

not always a happy ending http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...s-killed-freak-runaway-hay-bale-accident.html

 

[Chae1]

This poor guy was killed locally trying to prevent it happening. Hand got caught in net, can imagine the rest.

http://www.thefreelibrary.com/FARMER+IS+KILLED+BY+RUNAWAY+HAY+BALE;+Sandy,+76,+crushed.-a062887800

 

[Dafydd]

Field not overly steep just nowhere flat to drop bales off and a big step down to one of the main midlands to coast road on a Friday evening in the summer holidays so thought we better be careful! Last time the field was baled around 20years ago a bale ended up on the road so this time each bale dropped at flattest point and spiked straight away.

 

[Tullyvernon]

Thats the worst kind with no were to set a bale, can waste a lot of time!!

 

[TineMelk]

Roundbale wrapping on slopes can be interesting to!

 

[rc mx110]

Roundbale wrapping on slopes can be interesting to!

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If not worse as you have to load and unload the bale

 

[AJR75]

Not Baling as such but mowed this one a while back- one of those sneaky slopes that are concave and get steeper the further up you get. Baler man refused to bale it at first then relented...