Re: OT how heavy are they?

Posted by JM in Merit on February 04, 2007 at 10:57:01 from (12.39.110.213):

In Reply to: OT how heavy are they? posted by JM in Merit on February 03, 2007 at 19:54:55:

I am baling with a Vermmer 605 K . When I was hauling one bale out of the field I was going downhill and was in 5th gear and shifted to 6 but did not pop it and front came off the ground, not much as I did not realize but guy that was traveling beside me said he saw space between tire and groud.
The 3 point forks is what I call just the normal 3 point forks and I backed into bale as far as I could.
I know when I loaded the traier in the dry milo field, after loading 2 bales the axles sunk to the dirt. The trailer is one of those 5 bale carrie that you can trip lever and pusk off the bales when yo get home, all in a row.
I actually broke the forks and had to reweld them.
I was baling milo stalks and they were not green but could have cured another day when I baled them. I actually back off the baler and made samller bales as was doing it on shares and farmer wanted smaller bale, so only had about 20 bales of these heavy ones
I do know I sold one bale to a guy in the field and he came to load it and could not lift one, I told him I had two half bales and take them. He could not lift them and said he had lifted 1200 bales before with ease. He finally jumped the bale on trailer by pushing them on, which I do not recomdem and I have seen some get killed doing this.
I did cut back on pressure and size and bales were lighter, but after sitting for 4 months i will still suprised my front end came off the ground when I lifted them. It did not come off much but I saw some space between tire and ground.
I hope i never bale anything that heavy again, I like heavy bales but they been a little hard to handle and feed in the rings.
I wish I had some scales, nothing really important to know but just curious to what they weigh.
Thanks to everyone

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