Whoever came up with the Board is a genius, give a raise

As a trucker , sliding them out works great , until you happen to find a trailer with a lot of nails in a wooden floor . Aluminum floor trailers would slide easier than wooden floors . Great video !

I’m supposed to be watching my children, walking my dogs, and helping my wife in the kitchen…but instead I’m laying on my bed watching men unload hay from a truck…what a great Saturday!

Fascinating and an excellent idea with the board. A loading dock would be a very cool addition to the farm. This is a side of farming I've just never seen or thought about before. Thank you for the video.

I love the effort and the results. Thank you!

As a widow, hauling and unloading is now up to me .. it ALWAYS amazes me how FEW of the smaller farmers know the actual weight of their bales. (I think they must rely on what the person baling their field tells them what they've set their baler at - which is MOST OFTEN 15-20# heavier than the actual weight of the bales). As a "vertically challanged senior citizen", I just can't throw around the 100# bales any more😢 I have a bale scale, and if I'm able to pick up a bale and move it, I can tell fairly close how much it actually weighs on the scale. I've been "shorted" as much as 550# on a ton (which gets mighty expensive when hay is going for close to $400/ton!!!) By taking photos of some of the scale weights, weighing & recording EVERY BALE I unload, the tonnage that has come up short is usually remedied by the farmer.. It just makes for a LOT of extra time & work to weigh each bale, plus the cost of another trip to pick up the missing weight. I'd much rather buy 40-50# bales and be done with it!!! Those I CAN still handle and stack!! (with the bigger bales, I'm lucky to get them 3-high in the barn by myself!! and if I have to HIRE someone to help me stack, it just adds to the $$ cost of the hay). Thanks for making your hay bales WORKABLE for just about anyone!🤠

Good job guys! Called improvisation. Busting bales is money & time lost. Ya done well boys!

We load vertical with straps to pull 4 bundles at a time. Run the strap through the strings to keep in place on the first set. Put in the next set. Attach the strap ends to each other and repeat. Should be about 8 straps. Just pull them out at the unload 4 at a time then. And not pulling on strings.

Great video. Very informative. Thanks for sharing.

It’s amazing how many people don’t know what 50lbs actually feels like.

The image stabilization is much appreciated.

One time we had to move a lot of soil that was almost pure clay. We lined the dump truck beds with plastic. I'm thinking that plastic on the trailer floors would make the hay slide a LOT better.

That is a genius move, well done.

When you guys were pulling on the strings without the board, I felt like it was going to sling back and hit me in the face. Excellent movie once again!

Time to buy a salvage trailer and use the old floor as a portable ramp to drive in and out of the trailer.

Dad incorporated a concrete loading dock into the side of our barn bridge. Never used it much for hay, but it's still there if we need it. Good video! We occasionally ran close to idle time charges on the trucks. One outfit was $60/hr., but one driver told me they charged one guy $95 cause they didn't like him. At least it wasn't us.

I've been farming for 30 years and I make 40 pound bales! Anyone who has to handle hay every single day, will tell you, they stop making them 50 pound bales. It's amazing what a 10 pound difference makes. The 50's stack better, but the 40's don't kill ya!

When I give my Baron a " C section", we use a steel pinch bar, Its about 5 feet long, and the point threads right through the twines. I havn't unloaded a van trailer yet. you can grab some bale twines too. I agree with your Dad Run a rake Low and Slow.. Keep up the good work. Love the video's.

Walking floor trailers for the win ;)

Loading Docks have been a great investment for our hay operation. We use concrete retaining wall blocks, we have built docks at all 3 of our farms, one is a double 90 degree dock, one is a triple dock and the last is a single dock. in your situation a portable ramp would be ideal.

Take two L shaped steel bars with two D rings weld to your pulling end. Run the bars down each side of the trailer. Curl the L down to drop in behind the Bales. Connect to D ring and pull the bales out.

Before loading first first bundle into box, place 4x4 angle iron 6 feet long on floor with two 40 ft. 4 inch wide straps attached near each end of angle iron. Lay the two straps flat on floor the length of box and stack bundles on top of straps. To unload, after unloading easy to reach bundles, attach straps and slide all remaining bundles back together to desired location for unloading.

Try chain link fence . On the floor front to back, with a pipe so fork lift can hook a chain and pull everything to rear of truck. when finished roll up fence and return to shipper.

Take a cattle pannel and cut it the width of the trailer and put it in the front of the trailer with a long chain on both sides, and load hay in. Take the chain and hook to the loader and pull backward and it should pull it all back at once

I used to drive a truck with a 60 series Detroit. Just like that van truck. Badass

I don’t know the pulling capacity of your telehandler, but you could ask your shipper to use a “t-bar” setup. Basically, installing wood stringers with a rope or chain running perpendicular to the stringer. You tie on to the rope and pull a whole group of bales to the back all at once.

Kind of seems like a few geniuses here !

Always a good video.

About 55 years ago I would find myself trying to keep up with a baler while stacking 7 high right up to the last few inches of the front of the hay wagon. It seems I was told the bales were about 70 lbs each. But, that's an aging memory, so it might be wrong. It was a dairy farm, so all this hay was for their cows. I was the only one on the wagon, with one of the farmer's family members driving the tractor that pulled the baler that pulled the wagon. My arms got so cut up from the hay because I didn't wear long sleeves. Too hot. I was paid what I was worth.....$1.00 per hour. Good times.

Btw, we made a set of crude but awesome pallet fork extensions to unload semis of straw bales coming in for our landscape company. Of course you’d never be able to lift them up with the fork set being so long but basically we used heavy wall steel pipe and welded 3’ long 3” c channel to the end for the fork. We’d slide up under the bale stack and tilt back as much as possible which would give us just enough love to slide the stack to the back of the trailer. Then we’d grab the stack with stack with the skidsteer. It worked great and didn’t hurt the bales. Saved the guys and the driver

Put nylon skids / flat under the hay

Demurge/ detention is basically the same thing. In the oil fields they use demurge. I've never heard it used in dry van, reefer, or open deck. Personally I would never haul hay in a dry van, although I believe that is the best way to transport hay. I've never hauled hay myself but I rented a dry van trailer that someone before me did. It took me months to get all the hay cleaned out of all the crevasses and several weeks to get it to an acceptable level to haul food grade products again. On open deck hay is a big hassle as a driver. It is our job to secure it in a way to keep it on the trailer and not become a hazard on the road. Without long Veeboards the straps sink right through the hay and loosen up plus the load needs to be tarpped. If it starts raining before you can get the load tarpped, then your likely to be overweight as the rain just gets soaked up by the hay. From what I've seen transporting hay just doesn't pay enough on open deck to justify the costs of buying the needed Veeboards and then finding a place to store them in between hay loads. Sure you could use them on some other types of loads as well but you won't need even close to as many Veeboards. I'm sure there are some truck drivers that would disagree with me on the Veeboard issue and consider them essential flatbed equipment, but not for my operation and the type of freight I haul... I've been driving semis for a little over 8 years and have done dry van, reefer units, power only, oilfield vacuum tankers, and open decks. The past 3 years I've been an owner operator

Thank God for walking floor trailers!

When you load the trailer, put a strap on the ground from the rear of the trailer to the doors hooked onto a fork that rests on the back wall, then pull the strap and all the bails should hypothetically come out all at once

You need wheels on the back of the forks so they work like a dolly in the trailer.

Get yourself a van with a walking floor. Easy Peasey! Way faster. Once you use one, you will wonder how you did without one.

Man you're not kidding about your chicken scratches 🤣

When I was trucking and hauling loads like this we put heavy cardboard under them left some out on edges and hooked them it worked pretty good sometimes it didn't

in europe we do alot with walking floor trailers, even bales!

A+ for ingenuity and effort!

Farming has always got challenges. Video was amazing and I’m left with different feelings after watching. Being a farmer tue struggles are endless and we always pull through and make it look good half the time. Lol. As a logistics dispatcher and truck driver of the past I feel horrible for the driver. Being yes in a day cab no sleep or rack time so just bored the whole time. Being a gamer though I’d be content walking around looking at the operation but still bored after a while.

I think if a 53' L x 8' W x 5/8" Tk piece of nylon/rubber mat was placed on the floor of the trailer, were after the last push is extracted . it has hole shackles at the end were you could just hook up & pull the next stacks to be extracted ( "a walking floor" ) . then it could be rolled back out into the empty trailer for the loading !

Skid steer pallet fork cable or a semi cable in front and a oak tree.😊 1500 pounds each by now😊

Yes it is. It would make your job a lot easier. Steven Sipes

Good on the fly ingenuity. Suggestion is to add $100 to the machine inventory for two large grappling forks. Hook one on each side and you're smiling. Great grandad loaded barn after barn that way.

Man as someone who’s loaded and unloaded these trailers by hand in the summer with a 4 person crew we loaded them in about 1&45mins but it depended on how close we got to the hay in the barn with the trailer and it was one busty job inside lol 😂 but it paid good money for just couple of hours!!

You might want to check out a LIVE FLOOR BOX VAN TRAILER. It can unload or load by moving a series of panels that moves the load in or out. By the time you get the first off the next level is at the waiting for you. I have seen this before at truck shows. Steven Sipes

It’s amazing what people go through to save money. no dock put it on a flatbed. ( but of course that would cost a little more so not an option)

You'll learn. Need to talk to some old timers

The company I used to work for would give you 2 hours grace for unloading once parked. A minute after that the charge would be $200 and go up for each hour after that.

This is why walking floor trailers are valuable makes quick work of it I do however understand there trying to show what methods are easier.

Hey, that was good work. Good video too. Food for them cows or goats or whatever needs it.

I run telehandlers for construction and have the same issues with box vans and bad pallets. We use a strap round the back and down both sides. I think I would use the long reach forklift.

Here's my favorite lads, fricken awesome video mate, I've seen a merlo telehandler that telescopes 3 times,, they would reach right to the front of a box? Probably not seeing side on. You are explaining everything you do in great detail, don't let the trolls that missed physics and common sense class at school get ya down. Keep up the great work mate from New Zealand.

We do round bales, two straps end to end all the way around one side to the other side. Pull all 5 of them off the trailer at one time, about two minutes and tailer is off loaded.

Walking floor trailer with a clean out tarp in the front

You could make some slip sheets with tie off loops on them and slide them out very easily and also load them easily

I'll take a 50 lb bale any day. We live out here in Arizona and our bales are three stringers the average 95 to 105 lb. I do miss my Midwestern bales of hay when as a kid bucking bales at 50 lb a piece.

With a ramp or a loading dock the height of the machine used needs to fit into the box van with the ROPS up........We purchased a 5045 E Deere and had it speced with construction tires and weighted to handle the bundles.....We load right out the Baron, onto our own trailers for delivery by our trucks as needed to contract customers TSC and others sell right out of our trailers

We do 40 to 50 pound bails because I don’t want to pick up 100 pound bails. 😂

you have made yourself a good old fashion Pallet puller (or a version of) - I use a hook and a chain to get pallets etc out of my truck - seen this board trick years ago (Australia)

It would be nice if they could come on a walking floor trailer then they could walk them back to the back of trailer to get off easier

At the DC I work at theres a specialized forklift with a special front end that is essentially a giant spatula. Would be perfect for these.

Your farm seems to have most of the logistics of hay handling down to a science. Its great to see how differant folks handle similar issues. When baling horse hay, most farms perfer the lighter bales since its usually the ladies taking care of the barn. Im not saying that there aren't women who can't handle heave bales, just would perfer lighter ones.

If you had a.board behind the stack and a strap coming out from the backside that would be a great way to pull them to the back

use curtainside trailers! no strapping in the field, fast offloads and loading!

Just noticed you guys are local, I live stream around the Cleveland and Northeast Ohio area

Brother, don't know why I was unsubscribed from your channel. Hope you and the family are well and have a great New Year. We are still cutting grass hay and it's been hot in Rio Grande Valley Texas. Blessings.

Good thinking to the guy that decided to double the boards

How about a “Slider trailer”, a sliding curtain side like the steel haulers use.

Aussie's have walking floor trailers that walk the whole load rearward so each row can be unloaded without the need for telehandlers or dangerous procedures

hi, very interesting videos, but the first ones that I thought of when you have to pull hay from the flatbed, why not a hook on each side of the undrrst bundle. Greetings from Sweden

I used to buck hay, nothing like getting to a field expecting 50lb or 60lb bales and then working your ass off with green or wet super tight bales

Detention does start usually after 2 hours. TONU ( Truck ordered not used) Say you order a truck and he is on their way or they are already there but someone canceled the load.

And it works best parked on a slope

forklift and a dock solve all the problems when sliding any freight getting rollers under the freight is key pulling downward on strapping is counterproductive freight must lift to slide just a 3 ft pallet like jack gizmo that could get under the center of the stack and lift slightly hook the strap to this a pull upward would slide easily

I used to load the flat bed off the field by hand Then load the barn off the trailer by hand. Not quite to this scale, but close enough. Now that your work is done, is it miller time or some card games?

We do that crap all of the time ,,use a field fence puller hook the strings to the hooks on the iron pole

I was thinking of a flat steel plate on edge with drop down fingers that you could slide between the bale and the side of the trailer. Need one for each side. Weld on a hook for a chain.

The way they do it is wrong come wires won't hold all the time to pull them bails out and then they got a real mess to clean The best thing to do is to make sure that you have a strap all the way around to the front of the vehicle so when you get there all the customer has to do is pull on that strap on both sides and they against what they come to the end Lian leave the strap for when it gets loaded again😊

Just a thought, have you tried heavy duty plastic on trailer floor, then pull with straps.

We used to back a step deck up to a van trailer and use payloader to set skid loader on trailer pull bales out turn sideways on step deck and spear with the payloader, it really worked well but dads comment was “you idiots realize stuff like this is why OSHA was invented” he watched for a lil bit and had to leave lol

As you say most people that claim 50+lbs bales of grass hay are full of it or else they are over moisture. My coastal or Tifton 85 bermuda is usually 45-50lbs. Alfalfa bales are denser and can get to 60+lbs.

All you need is trucks with walking floors.

Run strap through it put the border behind it as you load.

1" Square metal frame 2 or 3 sections that bolt together 3 ft wide more eaven pull easy to store for you. As for set up for customer unload flatbed supplier get 4 6" or 8" 90-degree corner protectors and 2 ratchet straps to wap all 3 stacks ratchet snug ( will also stablise load in transit ) on customer end take metel bar such as tire iron insert on each Side behind couner protector loop straps in X pattern top left of bar to bottom right bar across front to the bottom left up to the top Top right back across front tie off the top left hook tow rope to center of X should give solid even lull of the stacks Provide The truck driver with self addressed trackable box recover must use this to return straps and corner protectors

Hay is usually hauled on a flatbed. Never heard of loading it in a van in my 4.5 million miles.

2straps one on top part of board and one on bottom part, pulls even with out all the pressure on middle of board

Enjoy your content. Any reason why y’all don’t use bale clamps. Can pick up a full New Holland bale wagon load. A bale clamp can unload a flatbed in two shakes. One other thing, it appears that your farm is into dirt farming too, reference the large grain storage and grain leg. Can we see some of that too?

How bout if the loading people put a strap around the front bottom bundle going all the way to the back door. ( so you aren't stressing the bundle ties) You pull on the strap and the entire load moves back. Granted that would be a hundred foot strap, fourty feet up and back and 6 ft across the front. _or at least run it back to your maximum loader reach. Too much to haul all at once? Then try straps around , say each quarter of the load,. Just a thought.

I would use 4" straps And have a metal triangular loop on the strap 4" a stronger strap Once they unload you get all your straps on do it all over again

There are walking floor trailers too

I'm an ex truck driver of 30 years in the UK and I've used that method to unload pallets a strap and slide them out . Over here we have trailers with walking floors do you have them out in the states worth looking into especially if it's only when needed in the bad weather

Large corkscrews work...

A walking floor trailer would probably work great.

Walking floor!

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Walking floor trailers work the best,and have been used for years.

where did you purchase the bale spear attachment?

Une si grande entreprise avec de la boue dans la cour! formidable🤮