Hay and straw haulage and fires

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Blunder Man:
If there is a job in road haulage I never fancied carrying Hay & Straw is the one, they just never look safe to me, and of all the shed loads I have seen Hay & Straw outnumber everything else, I would imagine I have seen 2/3 every year, is there a knack to securing them?.

And someone once told me if you don’t sheet them and it rains your load can gain a great deal of weight is that true?

A load guaranteed to improve your driving standards.

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stevie dug:
Yesterdays load.

nice load :sunglasses: although you got a couple of bales the wrong way round, cut edge outwards is the only way for real anoraks :wink:

( I haven’t done straw for a few years, and small bales even longer )

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stevie dug:
Yesterdays load.

A nice load indeed, how many is on that? Is it just haulage or are you/your employer making it too?

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Thanks for the comments its warm work but well worth it when its loaded.
Aye Denis i always try to keep the cut side out but under pressure from the flat 8er so sadly got a couple the wrong way, i`ll try harder next time :wink:
Hello NRT theres 447 bales on, cant get any more on at 9 high, its my wagon and i just haul them for a merchant dont bale them.

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waynedl:

mickfly:
We ran hay from Canada to Texas all last winter, stood on top sheeting at below -20 in some very stiff breezes, without harnesses.
No fires that I know of. youtube.com/watch?v=mMhPYW6kp_c

[zb]’ brill vids mate, Cath seems a good sport, my missus - as wide and bearded as she is according to taffy [zb] - would’ve killed me in the 1st 60 seconds :laughing:

Thanks Wayne, the hay is back on again, but I’m hauling other stuff at the moment, it’s a long way to run hay (2,000) miles, and never saw any hay loads on fire on the way down, maybe it’s different stuff over here.

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stevie dug:
Thanks for the comments its warm work but well worth it when its loaded.
Aye Denis i always try to keep the cut side out but under pressure from the flat 8er so sadly got a couple the wrong way, i`ll try harder next time :wink:
Hello NRT theres 447 bales on, cant get any more on at 9 high, its my wagon and i just haul them for a merchant dont bale them.

That’s a fair old load mind, the lowloader pictured earlier I get 650, not that many more given it’s an artic!