Would You Really Do This?

[PeteyPie]

This topic might be fun for all sorts of scenarios but what inspired me was this photo on a Boeckmann horse trailer site while I was virtual window shopping (Thank you @Horse_Rider, for making me covet one of these beauties with your Boeckmann thread):
https://boeckmann-northamerica.com/models/portax-series-horse-trailers#parentHorizontalTab3

Click on photo number 14 and look at the photo on the right. My jaw dropped open and I thought, “Whaaaat??? No way would I ever do that, even if I could drive a tractor!”

Am I wrong? Would you load a round bail into your expensive Boeckmann? How about getting those bales back out? Is that a thing?

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[beowulf]

I don’t own a Boeckmann but I sure have put round bales in my (expensive to me) Kingston! Necessity is the mother of all inventions.

[PeteyPie]

It looks like they are stuffed in and will never come out again. You’d have to leave the gate open and let the horses eat it out of the trailer.

[evenstar]

That’s quite a pricey hay hut!

[Moon_River]

Britain - yes, we don’t have massive US style pick ups here at all, would in all likelihood just own the horse trailer and not have a second trailer to use for hay runs, and in my area at least round bales have been the standard for many years now. Most farmers I know do have a tractor with a single spike attachment on the end though for shifting bales, so stab it and run it in to the trailer, stab it and reverse out at the destination, otherwise drop the ramp, get in the front and shove!

[NancyM]

Well I don’t know about the type of trailer it is, but if they fit in there, they will tip up and come out again when the buyer gets them home. Yes, you can put one in, then push it futher into the trailer with the next one. And fit in as many as will fit in there. Then close the door, and drive home with it. To remove from the trailer, if they are small enough (ours are 600 lbs) they can be tipped back out of the trailer by a couple of people, or skidded along the deck to get ready to tip out. Or, a cargo strap can be put around them and attached to something solid (a tree? Or?) and drive the trailer away. Either way, they should come out OK. Harder if they are 1200 lb bales of course. Hard to say from the pics how big they are.

[freshman]

Boeckmann doesn’t think this is crazy at all. They actually have a photo + video on their main website of a round bale being loaded into one of their 1-horse trailer models https://www.boeckmann.com/en/trailers/horse-trailers/p/uno/uno-c-857

[red_mares]

I routinely haul a jog cart on the roof of a Corolla. I’ve gone to shows with 2 carts on top of the car. Hay in a horse trailer? No problem.

[sherian]

I have done it with my steel lump of a stock trailer. It’s fine to load them if the tractor driver is decent, would want a really good tractor driver with a fiberglass or aluminum trailer - I suspect they wouldn’t shrug off an oops like steel. Either way it’s a pita to unload them. Bought a 16’ flat deck to use for stuff like that, time and effort savings was worth the cost (also very useful for moving a million other things), they are pretty common at rental places here if I didn’t want to buy one.

[Mosey_2003]

I don’t have a trailer, but I can tell you that if I did, I sure would And probably other horrible things too, lol.

[Zu_Zu]

NO !

[2DogsFarm]

Not round bales, but I loaned my 16’ aluminum stock trailer to a friend to carry roundbale-sized rolls of foam insulation.
IIRC, we got 6 of them in the trailer.
I realize foam is not as heavy or unsquishable as hay, but these were pretty solid rolls.

[PeteyPie]

I see that photo and I imagine bending or dinging the frame if that tractor driver does not know exactly what he is doing. The thought of filling the trailer, or putting bulky heavy things in, doesn’t bother me, so square bales, @2DogsFarm’s insulation rolls, or furniture would not give me pause. It’s just that that photo looks like he could damage the whole frame, and then like I said, it seems like it would be hard to get that round bale back out.

Yes indeed, @evenstar, a nice dry but pricey hay hut. And the horses would learn to love stepping into that trailer!

[candyappy]

It is just hay and I can see it isn’t wedged in there. If you have a tractor and a bale spear they will come right back out.

A trailer is a trailer.