Hay Train

[Scout]

Who's Baling?

 

[kennys@wi.rr.com]

I like the trailer set up. Very nice job with that.

 

[papabear]

Very nice!!!
I love to see MV's being used in a good way

 

[swbradley1]

I'm sorry, it just isn't long enough.

Just kidding. That is some serious hay.



sw

 

[Wildchild467]

i second that, good job with rigging up the 5th whee trailer...looks very nice!

 

[Scout]

Thanks for the compliments. I run that trailer behind an F-450 and didn't want to chop up the trailer or the M813. That hitch was pretty easy to make and I can take it on and off in a minute or less - works great.
This setup saves me a ton of time - 2 round trips at most instead of 5 or 6. Turning it around takes some planning, but the two additional wagons behind the flatbed track nicely. I can move about 35,000# of hay in one trip with this arrangement.

 

[Nonotagain]

How does your fifth wheel attach to the trailer tongue, or does it just sit into a pocket?

Pics man, pics!

 

[FormerNewMVGuy]

Its a Gooseneck, not a fifth wheel, so it sits on a 2 5/16 in ball mounted to the plate directly under it.....

 

[wreckerman893]

That rig is tougher than woodpecker lips.

 

[fuzzytoaster]

In the words of Fat Albert: "Hay-hay-HAY!"

Those pics are sweet.

 

[andyindy]

Soooo, your cattle never get a square meal? Nice job on the goose neck! What kind of round baler are you using? Good looking bales!

 

[clinto]

Scout-I gotta' say, so far as clever ideas go for matching up civvy trailers and 6x6's, yours is right up at the top. It's so simple and clever.

Thanks for posting the pics-like everyone else, I love seeing these trucks put to work.

Outstanding

 

[maddawg308]

Wow, that's a lot of weight your truck is pulling there. Great job putting it to work.

Fat Albert said it best:

[media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GDT7GP9l1-I[/media]

 

[neilhendrix]

Makes me want to take a welding course..Very nice and a good idea.

 

[wehring]

great idea

Now THAT is the best idea for a gooseneck that I have seen so far. I have been kicking around the idea of how to pull a gooseneck behind a deuce/5 ton. Thank for sharing...


Justin Wehring
979 997 3112

 

[waayfast]

What they said!! That is one heckuva idea on that hitch!! Thanks for posting----gotta go ---- I'm headed out to the welding shop-----------------
Jim

 

[USAFSS-ColdWarrior]

Scout-I gotta' say, so far as clever ideas go for matching up civvy trailers and 6x6's, yours is right up at the top. It's so simple and clever.

Thanks for posting the pics-like everyone else, I love seeing these trucks put to work.

Outstanding

That is WELL ENGINEERED !

Sure ain't no Redneck A-dapter Kit.



Now I'm dreaming up a "kit" for a bumper-pull utility trailer to circumvent the HIGH lift when taking the deuce on Garage-Sale Saturdays.

 

[Hay Man]

What a great set-up! Ironically enough, I just got in from loading a gooseneck trailer with hay.

 

[nhdiesel]

I love it! I have been trying to think of a way to make a trailer that was adaptable between a gooseneck and a pintle. One hint for someone else doing it- work out the brackets on the adapter so that it can also attach to the front of a Deuce or 5-ton...instant towbar if the trailer isn't being used.

Jim

 

[Scout]

Soooo, your cattle never get a square meal? Nice job on the goose neck! What kind of round baler are you using? Good looking bales!

Thank you! Actually, I'm feeding horses, not cattle. New Holland 648 with a preservative system. My moisture content was so low, I never needed any of the preservative. The net-wrapped bales are super clean, makes twine-wrapped bales downright ugly.

And to add to the "singles vs. duals" contact area debate - last year I was running the original dual setup - rears were sunk and "hooked up" so well that steering was tough. The 14x20's float over that hayfield. If you check some of my other posts you will see what this truck is capable of. Paid for itself many times over for farm duty.

In a week or two I'll be hauling 3'x3'x8' square bales of straw. I'll throw some pics up.