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I actually saw the baler in the photo pass by while installing a gate at my place and had no idea what it was, nor did I know I'd be in the same fields with it, well he was across the road in another field when we started picking em up, I'd have got some photos of it in action if it were nearby. Now after gathering and loading these up, I can see that being a valuable accessory, especially if you are under the gun with rain on the way or something. The barns were no more than 1 mile 1 1/2 miles away, and with the big truck he's got, it allowed me time to gather em up while he was headed to the barns to dump off, but if one wanted to really streamline things, have additional trucks running, more bales on the ground, especially if the distance to the barns was longer it would be the cats @ss, also good because the baler operator could skid them to a safer place to load, many of these bales I got behind the long end so as not to cross the twine and the way I was pushing them, skidded em down the hill, no way I was picking them on some of these hills where they were dropped, slope was too much and the chuck holes were like landmines, making it real easy to turn over that nice MF, which belongs to the farmer's son, part of his landscaping business, whom I know well, used to ride the school bus with him years back, I told his dad, I ain't gonna be the one known for rollin his tractor! Took my time and loaded them where I saw fit, did not have to be totally level, the MF handled these quite easily, but I kept the the spear curled back and only raised up when I was close to the truck, then uncurled over the truck, no problem at all, mind you, was the first time I ever handled a spear and large bales, but having lots of hours and experience on a loader through out the years sure made things real easy to figure out, and one heck of a lot better then doing small squares.
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