Unload Rounds Bales by Yourself – No Tractor Required! // VLOG

Unloading big hay bales out of a pickup truck without a tractor front-end loader or other heavy equipment can be done, even without any extra help. Bonus points for creativity.

The spring season is winding up and though the grass is growing we still need hay to feed our goat herd and to keep our beef steers’ guts happy (they cannot be on pasture as it is too close to their butchering date – that, and they have proven themselves untrustworthy). As our herd has grown a lot in the past year and because the beef steer timeline became accelerated we were running out of hay and had to track some down in a hurry. The best deal we could find were these two round bales.

Typically we feed square bales since we only feed hay in the barn and because we don’t have a good way to handle round bales. But since this is what we could get on short notice we’re going to carve off chunks of hay as we need it and take it to the barn for the critters.

With our current equipment (a pickup bed and a 5x8 tilt trailer) we can haul two round bales. Unloading the trailer is the easiest task; the truck was a little more difficult but gravity is always on (it’s the law) and with a conglomeration of straps and chains we got the second big bale unloaded without injury.

Once that was done we took a moment to go the barn and fix the new gate we just put up in front of our bulk feed tote. When we installed the gate it was about 1-1/8” too far over and the gate would latch closed. We plugged the gate hardware holes and drilled new ones, reinstalled the gate, and everything worked out great.

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