I live in KY and most of my fields are side hills-more like long ridges and shorter hills. It would not be feasible to bale up and down them. In fact I bale one hill that is so steep the tractor will barely pull the baler back out of there with no bale in it. Most all the scenarios described by the other posters apply to me as well. My steepest hills end in hollows-really 'ravines' or woods, or both, mostly: so no bale retrieval possible. And so I am careful where I eject the bale. Where I can, I drive to the top of the ridge while tying, and then eject. I have ejected on the side of a hill(more than once) and even pointed the rear of the baler uphill and had the bale take off. The hay was flying 25' out of the bale in the air and the bale was flying! What 'sometimes' will work, is while ejecting the bale, not opening the tail gate all the way and catching it as it falls out and trying to hold it in place with the tail gate, until the bottom of the bale flattens, and takes a set. Hold it there for a few moments and it 'might' stay in place. But I have even had them roll away too. Sometimes they stay in a dip along the hill, but not always: they might flip end over end. Just be careful-really plan ahead where to drop it. Mark.
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