How many bales of hay?

My standard load is 56. I can do more, but 56 goes down the road nicely, I've got the tie down straps the right length to fit it, relatively stable on curves and bumps etc.

Now a 100 on your wagon? That's pretty lame! Hahaha

we put 50 in the bed of a 8' chevy pickup. drive around thru the pasture and put in the calving shed.

I never hauled any with a truck cept to get 8 bales from the neighbor once a year.

I know we have had 120 or more on a 14 foot hayrack many times, straw anyway. It was always lighter than good hay, so you could throw it higher.

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I haul around 20 on my Toyota Tacoma. An old neighbor used to load 90 on his 3/4 ton Ford pickup each morning to feed in a couple different pastures, trucks lasted 3 or 4 years before he wrecked them.

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the old lady....oooops….I mean the loving wife won't let me put more than 2 bales inside her burb on the carpet!

8 ft. box:

4 on the cut edge lengthwise to the box, gets it almost as high as the edge of the box.

Then 4 on the string side (and all the rest of the stack on the string side) across the box, overhanging the side of the box a tad. More important to be wide enough than touch in the center.

Then 4 lengthwise stacked tight together.

Then 4 crosswise meeting snugly in the middle this time instead of worrying about width.

Then 3 lengthwise on top of that.

That's 19 per section, x 3 sections = 57, but there's only 3 between the wheel wells, so 56 total. I'm hauling roughly 2500 pounds at that point, and a little over 2 tiers are above the cab. 1/2 of a stack thereabouts is resting on the tailgate. It's a decent load.

I've heard of the legendary 103 bale load before, but like sasquatch, I've never seen it and have a hard time getting a visual.

I haul about 1500 bales a year to various customers, and often during the loading process I try to visualize 4 tiers taller, 6 tiers higher than the cab roof, going down the road, 2 1/2 tons of payload at least, and just can't quite visualize it!!! I know I couldn't make it out my driveway as the trees would scrape off half the load.

50 bales with the long bed pickups

shameless dude wrote:

I loaded that pickup out of a large dairy barn hay mow, I would never have been able to toss them that high. I had 3 witnesses, but they is all dead now!

Probably laughed themselves to death.....I'd a liked to see a picture of that too!! I'd go out an figure it out, but I don't have any small bales around anymore....

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A friend of mine and his brother used to load over 100 bales on an old International Pickup. There Dad always bought a lot of hay for their cows and the boys would put 2 loads on one to save a trip so they could get done early. Their Dad did not care as long as the hay got hauled! I used to haul 56 bales as I did not like to reload! Now I am all Round Bales as I have a one man operation!

Had a girl come and she put 5 in her Toyota corolla. Thought that was funny.
Then I used to have a cutie come get hay and would get like 40 in a dully with toolbox and box full of junk. But was stacked nice so it wouldn't fall off
Back before I was injured a friend of mine was asking what I was doing for the day hinting that he needed help. He's not a hay guy. But was going to help his mom who had horses. So I get there and the step dad says I don't know what I'm going to do the barn is full. I went up and stacked the right way and got 3 more wagon loads in there. They were amazed lol.

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