Common Buyer
The most common buyer is the 40 foot gooseneck trailer capable farm buyer and hauler. In this case a 360 bale load being loaded in one of the hay barns.
Small Hay Buyers Welcome
Forty alfalfa hay bales on a 1 ton, 8 foot bed pickup truck.
This local buyer essentially buys as his demand requires using our barn as storage and buying from us as long as we have hay.
Any single buyer/driver will find we will be able to mechanically load their trailer faster than they can stack bales. A buyer that brings one additional set of hands will load as fast as we can move the bales from the barn to the trailer.
Over The Road trucks/trailers will be able to circle turn their rigs.
Short haul gooseneck and smaller trailer owners that trust to leave their trailer parked at our fields will gain a $0.50 discount per bale as we will load their trailer straight from the field and call when ready for the buyer/driver to secure the load and haul away.
Extend the courtesy of calling before arrival to secure a load appointment.
Recognizing various experience levels of our hay buyers we offer the illustrations of how to interlock a trailer load of stacked hay bales.
Using a 40 foot gooseneck trailer that typically has a 32 foot long deck as an example represented by the red rectangle below (bird's eye view) the concept we are showing is to interlock all hay bales both horizontally and vertical. The black bales represented in this picture are the first course of bales on the deck. The next course would be laid in the opposing direction to interlock the courses.
An alternative stacking would be.
The interlocking concept would be to offset each succeeding rows as they are stacked on top of each other.
How many bales per trailer load is possible? That answer is on your truck and trailer by looking at the data plate on the truck, trailer hitch and the load capacity of your trailer. What ever the lower value is the trailer weight and load weight combined your truck and trailer are capable of hauling.
Truck hitch and trailer axils load ratings determines how many bales can go on any truck and trailer combination and is a buyer's responsibility.