How many bales of hay can you get in a pick-up truck?

goatkid · #21 05/06/06, 01:02 AM

When hauling hay on the highway, we can get a ton in our 3/4 ton Chevy. There are 26-28 bales to the ton.

Freeholder · #22 05/06/06, 01:13 AM

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Originally Posted by ladycat

It sure would be nice to have a pickup. With all the seats in the mini-van, but nothing else stacked in there, it will hold 6 bales (2 bales in the middle seat and 4 bales through the hatch with the back seat folded down).

If the seats were taken out, I suppose one could squeeze 8 to 10 bales in there.

There is loose hay ALL over the car LOL But it smells good in there.

Ladycat, what size bales are you hauling? I can get four 100 lb. plus bales in the back of my van, with the rear seat out, but I don't haul any in the middle seat (it's usually full of feed bags, anyway). I wish I had a pickup, too!

Kathleen

creeklady2000 · #23 05/06/06, 05:11 AM

we get 51 square bales on our f-150 short box they are 50 pound bales but I have been doing this a long time and with a long box we can get 60 on there are several little tricks to stacking to get the most we travel about 7 miles to get hay and with 26 horses you want to get the most for your trip a freind of my soon to be hubby ( monday yaaa) brought us 260 bales that are a year old last night for a buck a bale normally we pay 2 a bail and that will be going up this year with gass and baler twine even went way up , so we are set for the rest of this month

dosthouhavemilk · #24 05/06/06, 09:13 AM

I've got a little Chevy S-10.
We can put 21 to 25 on it of straw bale depending on their length and how much junk is already in the bed of the truck. lol
Dad doesn't tie it down because they do ride well (they interlock quite well) but if the guys are there they insist on tieing it down.

**ladycat** · #25 05/06/06, 09:33 AM

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Originally Posted by BlueJuniperFarm

Ladycat, what size bales are you hauling? I can get four 100 lb. plus bales in the back of my van, with the rear seat out, but I don't haul any in the middle seat (it's usually full of feed bags, anyway). I wish I had a pickup, too!

Kathleen

That would be 70# bales.

heritagefarmer · #26 05/06/06, 11:05 AM

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Originally Posted by cfarmher

20 must be the magic number for an F150, thats what we have and thats what worked for us.
Thanks

We get 50 on our F150, but we're only hauling 5 miles
my DH is insane too.
You should see him on a scaffold tower or the barn roof!
makes my toes curl...

pookshollow · #27 05/06/06, 02:30 PM

I used to get about 50 bales on my old Dodge Ram, if I remember correctly. My Sunfire will hold one.

We bought an old 14' cube van for moving, it's now our hay-hauling/storing vehicle. DH loaded it last time, and got about 60 bales in it, I'm sure I can get close to 80 if I load it (he's a newbie

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