Stacking Hay

SouthernFarmall · Jul 27, 2011

What is the most hay anybody has put on a pickup truck? Yesterday I stacked 41 bales (34"x18") on a shortbed truck (6.5 ft.). After I was finished stacking, the buyer said he didn't have rope to tie the load down! I told him to go on, but drive real careful. When he came back for another load, he said that no hay had fallen off!
Last winter, I stacked 56 bales on a long bed truck (with rope), but, after studying on it a little bit, I think I could get about 75 if I tried hard. So, what is the standing record around here?

SF

onefarmer · Jul 27, 2011

I used to put 65 on a long box Chevy K20 regularly. I have had up to 70 on it.

northvale · Jul 27, 2011

I put 60 on, but no more. I don't like the sway. 60 on the truck, 60 on a flat bed wagon behind. That's my full load.

Anonymous-0 · Jul 27, 2011

I've had 80 or more on my 1970 G.M.C. 3/4 ton
but I cheated,I laid 4X8X3/4" sheets of plywood on the second layer.That made a solid platform to build on.
But no more,now I have a 1981 Ford one ton flatdeck,makes loading way easier.

TGIN · Jul 27, 2011

Always hauled 62 on a full size pickup , two of them on the cab roof . That was with a heavy 3/4 chevy . The truck I have now is not as stout so I haul 50 most times .

Formerly PaMike · Jul 27, 2011

That reminds me of a funny one from a few years back.I was selling hay "at the barn" and I had two guys scheduled to show up that morning. First guy rolls in a new F150 king ranch all done up. 8ft bed on it. I start throwing the bales on the truck, the driver is stacking them. After about 20 bales he starts slowing down and scratching his head. He decides thats all he can take for this trip. He "doesnt want to risk it". My second guy shows up in a two wheel drive S10 pickup. I ask him how many bales he wants. He says "usually get 40 on, 45 if I stack it just right." That guy left with 42 bales and the back bumper just about dragging on the ground. He bought from me a bunch of times after that. Always got about 40 on the truck, and we said he never lost one. He sure had a system for stacking and tieing them down...

showcrop · Jul 27, 2011

I usually put about 45 on the truck with 8 ft. bed. One customer always puts about 65 on. I have shown customers many times how to do it when I see how they are starting out.

Buckeye · Jul 27, 2011

I had a fellow put 90 bales on a Ford pickup once. It was a 1 ton truck with regular bed and no duals.

Nate V. IA · Jul 27, 2011

I could get 65-70 on a long box SRW 1 ton, but the truck liked to rock side to side so I took it slow. I have hauled probably thousand of bales in the back of a truck and don't ever strap them down unless the bales are really loose, then again the guys who do strap em usually fly be me on the way home form the sale.

A guy I new in college had some pipe gates in the back of his truck one day, said he was hauling hay. He laid the ten footers across the bed then stacked on top of them until he was level with the cab then he had a longer one he laid lengthwise over the cab all the way back. He said he could get over 100 bales on but I never saw it loaded.

4020deereboy · Jul 28, 2011

14. 4x4x8 1800 pound grass bales on 24 foot goose kneck behind 3/4 dodge diesel

jason, NW Ontario · Jul 28, 2011

Before we got a trailer for hay I was regularly putting 50 in a long box then driving 3+ hours down the highway. Once tried 24 more but kinda stressed out with the highway rig tailwinds moving the pile quite a bit. Used rope always.

Without feeling like I'm breaking anything I regularly put 130 bales on the 18ft trailer; another 19 bales in the truck bed. Use ratchet straps now and love them.

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