Anybody do roundbales in a regular pickup bed

thx for the info, was kinda wondering this myself...

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ya i get 2 bales in the back of my 1500 with a 6ft bed cant close the tail gate but i just throw a strap around the back side

and most times i do one every week in the back of the same truck if they look like that pushing them off might not be very fun i do every thing by my self so pushing bales off the truck can be a real pain if they are water logged cause they seem to get stuck on the sides of the bed

but when we had our farm we use to put 2 in an 8ft bed chevy every day and drive 6 miles down the road around hills and bends in the road and we wouldnt strap any thing down only lost one bale in the 15 years i can remember and it was because the back bale was light and the front one was heavy and we hit a bump and the bale bounched and fell right out and rolled down the road a ways till it hit a tree and stopped had to get the tractor to get that one back on the truck then strapped it down

also if you do alot of stuff by your self and dont want to push round bales off get a bed lift they make one that will go under the stock bed and pick it up and one that sits in the bed and just that lifts there about the same price and work great takes like 30 secs to unload the bale and you never have to push it just cut the strings but there both around $2000 give or take

I've put many a round bale in the back of a pick-up. Spear them in the center and set them in the box and nudge them forward. One fellow had me load his flat bed with 5 bales and then decided he wanted me to "drop" one in the back of his pickup hitched to the trailer. I protested, told him I couldn't control the bale well, it was on a spike on the front of a bucket on the Case Crawler. I protested more, he insisted, should only cost a few hundred to straighten out the side of the box!!! Some folks don't seem to be able to understand the meaning of 800# bale and the theory of it rolling and tipping. And yes, men are always amazed at how well this old lady drives that Case Crawler.

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