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<blockquote data-quote="Dave" data-source="post: 1659480" data-attributes="member: 498"><p>Wind breaks and a seat? Obviously you have never fed big squares off a flat bed. I told my wife your comment and she laughed. She has been the person on the back feeding lots of hay back in her former life. So I will explain it so that you and others understand the process. Right now I am feeding 82 cows. They get 2 bales which weigh about 1,200 pounds each. The flatbed is an F350 with an 8 by (?) 7 1/2 foot bed. The bales 3x4x8 are places on edge length wise on the sides of the flatbed, loaded from the side. This leaves enough room for me to fit in the middle between the bales. The flakes are about 6 inches thick so there is 16 flakes per bale. Each flake weighs about 75 pounds. They don't exactly fall apart. I cut the twine before getting on the truck. They don't fall off on their own. Even that second bale to be fed just sits there as we bounce along the field. I have to push them off. The first 4 flakes (maybe 5) are fairly easy. Just push them to the rear and they fall. Once there is more flake on the truck than in the air they tend to stay. Kicking a 75 pound flat flake doesn't work very well. I start near the rear of the truck and work my way toward the cab on each bale. So for the next 11 or 12 flakes have to go off the side. I break it loose on the top, as it starts to move I have to push it off the edge. The flake generally hits some on the edge of the truck, topples 3 feet to the ground. But remains intact when it hits the ground. 82 cows leave a fair amount of cow manure in the field. At 22 degrees this morning every one of those cow pies is frozen stiff. It feels like the truck hit a rock every time we drive over one. Standing on the back of a stiff springed F-350 it is a bouncy ride when driving over frozen cow pies.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Dave, post: 1659480, member: 498"] Wind breaks and a seat? Obviously you have never fed big squares off a flat bed. I told my wife your comment and she laughed. She has been the person on the back feeding lots of hay back in her former life. So I will explain it so that you and others understand the process. Right now I am feeding 82 cows. They get 2 bales which weigh about 1,200 pounds each. The flatbed is an F350 with an 8 by (?) 7 1/2 foot bed. The bales 3x4x8 are places on edge length wise on the sides of the flatbed, loaded from the side. This leaves enough room for me to fit in the middle between the bales. The flakes are about 6 inches thick so there is 16 flakes per bale. Each flake weighs about 75 pounds. They don't exactly fall apart. I cut the twine before getting on the truck. They don't fall off on their own. Even that second bale to be fed just sits there as we bounce along the field. I have to push them off. The first 4 flakes (maybe 5) are fairly easy. Just push them to the rear and they fall. Once there is more flake on the truck than in the air they tend to stay. Kicking a 75 pound flat flake doesn't work very well. I start near the rear of the truck and work my way toward the cab on each bale. So for the next 11 or 12 flakes have to go off the side. I break it loose on the top, as it starts to move I have to push it off the edge. The flake generally hits some on the edge of the truck, topples 3 feet to the ground. But remains intact when it hits the ground. 82 cows leave a fair amount of cow manure in the field. At 22 degrees this morning every one of those cow pies is frozen stiff. It feels like the truck hit a rock every time we drive over one. Standing on the back of a stiff springed F-350 it is a bouncy ride when driving over frozen cow pies. [/QUOTE]
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