• Post Reply Bookmark Topic Watch Topic
  • New Topic
permaculture forums growies critters building homesteading energy monies kitchen purity ungarbage community wilderness fiber arts art permaculture artisans regional education skip experiences global resources cider press projects digital market permies.com pie forums private forums all forums
this forum made possible by our volunteer staff, including ...
master stewards:
  • Carla Burke
  • Nancy Reading
  • r ranson
  • John F Dean
  • Timothy Norton
  • paul wheaton
  • Jay Angler
stewards:
  • Pearl Sutton
  • Anne Miller
  • Tereza Okava
master gardeners:
  • Christopher Weeks
gardeners:
  • M Ljin
  • Matt McSpadden
  • Megan Palmer

transporting round hay bales without tractor

 
hans muster
pollinator
Posts: 397
121
  • Mark post as helpful
  • send pies
    Number of slices to send:
    Optional 'thank-you' note:
  • Quote
  • Report post to moderator
Hi,

I am currently at a friends farm, and he has a problem: he does not have a tractor, and lets a neighbour press his hay bales. Some (from last year) were covered by a tarp in a field, rotted a bit, and he needs to move them to use as mulch.

Does anyone have an idea how to move them? It would be sligntly uphill, for a few hundred meters.

I was thinking sticking a metallic pole through the center and pull them with a pulley system, but he is quite broke and rope is expensive...

this is what I am talking about
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baler#Round_baler

Thanks
Hans

 
John Wolfram
pollinator
Posts: 1000
Location: Porter, Indiana
171
trees
  • Mark post as helpful
  • send pies
    Number of slices to send:
    Optional 'thank-you' note:
  • Quote
  • Report post to moderator
If you are just going to be using them as mulch, is there are reason you could not break them into smaller bits and move them one wheelbarrow/garden cart up the hill at a time?
 
Bernard Welm
Posts: 101
Location: Minnesota
14
3
trees
  • Mark post as helpful
  • send pies
    Number of slices to send:
    Optional 'thank-you' note:
  • Quote
  • Report post to moderator
You could also ask the neighbor if he would be willing to move the hey to the area that needs to be mulched. Most rural people are willing to lend a hand (as long as a returning helping hand is offered/provided).
 
Kelly Smith
Posts: 724
Location: In a rain shadow - Fremont County, Southern CO
22
  • Likes 1
  • Mark post as helpful
  • send pies
    Number of slices to send:
    Optional 'thank-you' note:
  • Quote
  • Report post to moderator
might see if anyone in the area has a hydra bed that can help:





could you pay the same neighbor to move?
how are round bales generally moved in the area?
 
Miles Flansburg
pollinator
Posts: 4718
Location: Zones 4-5 Colorado
496
3
hugelkultur forest garden fungi books bee greening the desert
  • Mark post as helpful
  • send pies
    Number of slices to send:
    Optional 'thank-you' note:
  • Quote
  • Report post to moderator
Do you have any animals around? Horses, oxen, cattle?

Any cars, trucks or motorcycles?
 
hans muster
pollinator
Posts: 397
121
  • Mark post as helpful
  • send pies
    Number of slices to send:
    Optional 'thank-you' note:
  • Quote
  • Report post to moderator
Thanks for the answers. We are going to wait untill we are more and, and then move it by hand.

But the tool on the pickup looks cool, and not that difficult to build with a pulley. (but you need a pickup).
 
R Scott
pollinator
Posts: 4148
Location: Kansas Zone 6a
328
  • Likes 1
  • Mark post as helpful
  • send pies
    Number of slices to send:
    Optional 'thank-you' note:
  • Quote
  • Report post to moderator
http://www.durabiltindustries.com/tumblebug.aspx?im=tumblebug.jpg

These are common with the Amish around here. There are also versions that use a spike and a boat winch, but they are slower. They can be used with a decent sized 4 wheeler, too.

I need something, too. I have a tractor and small pickup, but neither are big enough to move a round bale by themselves.

I have rolled them by hand--but it is not easy, especially uphill.

I have also used a rock bar or pipe stuck through the middle and then a loop of rope or chain hooked around a ball hitch on a car.

But that doesn't work to transport a bale that is rotted. Great for spreading the mulch, though!
 
Mv Winship
Posts: 4
hunting rabbit chicken
  • Mark post as helpful
  • send pies
    Number of slices to send:
    Optional 'thank-you' note:
  • Quote
  • Report post to moderator
I buy old hay from a guy. He uses his tractor and puts them in the back of my pick-up.
 
Please do not shoot the fish in this barrel. But you can shoot at this tiny ad:
Rocket Mass Heater Resources Wiki
https://permies.com/w/rmh-resources
reply
    Bookmark Topic Watch Topic
  • New Topic