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[artsyrobin]

just checked them and he poked his head out as alert as can be with his sibling... can dehydration cause those symptoms?
odd about ruptured air sacs. will pay alot more attention for it... seeing as i ordered a bator...might need that info

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[nnbreeder]

This is what Teva and I did this morning. We had 12 bales to move from up near Crescent. Getting hard to find 5x6 and these were packed tight too. It would not suprise me if they bumped 1400lbs pretty hard.

 

[nnbreeder]

Yes dehydration can cause them to fluff up too. The clicking however I would bet is an air-sac.

 

[nnbreeder]

I may need to stretch the truck just a tad. That is running pretty close!

 

[NanaKat]

I may need to stretch the truck just a tad. That is running pretty close!

Wow...a really tight ride!

 

[nocityboy]

Wow...a really tight ride!

i think he was testing if his straps were still good.

you could make a removeable extension that is secured from the sides of the bed. Or that just lays under the bale, the back part reinforced to keep it from bending

 

[Kassaundra]

I think I might try it this year. Now I need to find a round bale or two that I can unroll and re-bale.

If you do keep me posted on how it works.

 

[nnbreeder]

i think he was testing if his straps were still good.

you could make a removeable extension that is secured from the sides of the bed. Or that just lays under the bale, the back part reinforced to keep it from bending

You can't see it very well but the bale was about two inches from the spare on the trailer tongue. The bad part was getting so low to unhook the trailer and get it jacked up, I don't bend so well anymore. I really just need to get off my fanny and get my 2-ton to going that I bought a couple of years ago. It has a twisted bed and the pump needs to be rebuilt besides other minor things. Sweet old truck with only about 35K miles on it.

 

[jcatblum]

There is a couple in Tulsa area that grows a good amount of strawberries & they had tried growing them in straw but found the wind was too much for the straw. So now they use black plastic mulch.
I saw chicken coop plans out of straw bales a while back. I also have several straw bale home building books. I love the idea of using straw bales. There is a yahoo group--- okie bale heads. They can usually point you in the direction of straw bales-- if anyone is wanting to get crafty & see what they can create.

 

[nnbreeder]

If you do keep me posted on how it works.

I will, the concept has me interested. We have heavy clay soil here that tightens up really bad when either too wet or too dry and this may be a solution.

When we first moved here I did some fertilizing and it took two years to see results the perk rate on this soil is that bad. I think that is the reason they sold this land off for acreages, it would not make a wheat crop!