New one...

[Brute 23]

That's a new one.

 

[Mrcopier]

Am I missing something. I don't see it

 

[Brute 23]

Am I missing something. I don't see it

The hay is stacked like McDonald's french fries.

 

[wbvs58]

Most practical way to do it when dealing with the restrictions of a tub.

Ken

 

[coachg]

City farmer

 

[Dave]

City farmer

But one with Texas plates.

 

[Travlr]

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That's a new one.

It's been a very long time, but if I remember right we would generally get thirty-six/forty bales on a p-up.

 

[Brute 23]

It's definitely working. Can't blame them for that.

I'm sure they came from a tsc or some thing and they loaded them. I just had to laugh. We were expected to stack them good to fit quite a few as kids. I don't remember how many but it was 3 or 4 rows tall.

We didn't do this exact set up but simular.

What is scary is we use to ride up top. When you put the top row on down the center it made a great spot to sit.

My dad tells a story about them hauling hay as kids with a truck and hay wagon. They had a bunch of friends helping. They were riding on top the trailer and who ever was driving, I think my oldest uncle, took a turn too fast and dumped the hay and all the kids.

 

[bird dog]

We laid ours three across the bottom on the narrow side to where the second row was on a slope from riding on the track side cap. Three high rode well like that, four if you went slow enough and your pasture was not to rough.

 

[chevytaHOE5674]

We always rode on top of wagon and truck loads of hay to get to the barn.. until a friend I went to high-school with was riding on top of a wagon load of hay. One bump and off he fell. Now he's an adult that eats thru a straw and lives in a facility and isn't sure if he's pitching or catching.

 

[RDFF]

We used to challenge each other to see who could stack the most bales on our 7x14 flatbeds. As many as 13 rows high was "typical" for these challenger loads (our normal baling hard, git-r-done loads were 7-8 high)... think we even got to 15 high once or twice. The trick though was, our farm was in the blufflands above the Mississippi River... generally steep rolling ground, with contour strips. And even though we would always make these loads "on the top of the hill" fields, where it was "more" level (NO fields were actually close to "level"... sidehill combines were the norm there), you still couldn't count it a win unless the load made it all the way home and up to the elevator! If you were riding on top, you had to get down several layers, and often we had to use a lift to clear underneath our overhead electric wires in the yard.

 

[NIdahoShorthorns]

We used to challenge each other to see who could stack the most bales on our 7x14 flatbeds. As many as 13 rows high was "typical" for these challenger loads (our normal baling hard, git-r-done loads were 7-8 high)... think we even got to 15 high once or twice. The trick though was, our farm was in the blufflands above the Mississippi River... generally steep rolling ground, with contour strips. And even though we would always make these loads "on the top of the hill" fields, where it was "more" level (NO fields were actually close to "level"... sidehill combines were the norm there), you still couldn't count it a win unless the load made it all the way home and up to the elevator! If you were riding on top, you had to get down several layers, and often we had to use a lift to clear underneath our overhead electric wires in the yard.

We did this one summer with a low boy we were told not to stack over 8 high. We got caught going to the barn with 11 high and a creaking trailer. I learned some interesting words that day.....

 

[Ouachita]

My granddad had us kids drive a '59 Apache. He had a particular way of stacking so we could get 52 bales on.
It's been a minute, but I remember stacking on the hood and a layer over the cab, and utilizing the open tailgate.

We didn't drive down the road like that, just from hay field to the hay elevator at the barn.
We also had a bungee to strap the steering wheel to the side mirror so we could hop out of the truck and work alongside. If the truck started acting like granny, we would jump onto the running board and give a nudge.

 

[Nesikep]

It's been a very long time, but if I remember right we would generally get thirty-six/forty bales on a p-up.

Rookie numbers, I've had 66 (16x18x42") bales in the back of my longbox dodge, I had 120 on my dads 7.5x12ft truck

 

[Travlr]

Rookie numbers, I've had 66 (16x18x42") bales in the back of my longbox dodge, I had 120 on my dads 7.5x12ft truck

Yeah, My first impulse was to write 45, but remembering how they stack I don't believe we ever went more than four complete layers with four bales across the top. We never had anything back in those days that would take much more of a load. I think the last truck I stacked with small bales was a '67/8 half ton Dodge with a slant six. After that I built a trailer...

 

[Stonewall Joe]

Yeah, My first impulse was to write 45, but remembering how they stack I don't believe we ever went more than four complete layers with four bales across the top. We never had anything back in those days that would take much more of a load. I think the last truck I stacked with small bales was a '67/8 half ton Dodge with a slant six. After that I built a trailer...

it's amazing how in about 1970 or so all of the farmers discovered trailers. Before that everyone had overloaded pick ups and there were only single cabs for the biggest part. I had an old 57 ford 3/4 ton with some Omaha Standard factory cattle racks that would fold down half way if you were empty or hauling pigs and fold up taller to haul cow or take them off to haul hay. I thought I was king of the road

 

[mwj]

The dimensions of pickup beds continues to shrink along with multi-function tailgates costing the price of an old pickup. Why would you think that people are using them as a truck?

 

[Silver]

I don't know about the dimensions shrinking. A 4'x8' sheet of plywood still seems to fit the same. Actually I think there might be a couple inches extra length now.

 

[Mrcopier]

The hay is stacked like McDonald's french fries.

Oh ok, they are all that way around here so I didn't see any difference

 

[Brute 23]

Oh ok, they are all that way around here so I didn't see any difference

Nothing wrong with it. Guess it was just funny to all us who were drilled/ grilled on stacking back in the day.