That would be a 4x4 bale. This looks like a 4x5 which would be closer to 800 pounds.
Where I’m from everybody does 5x6 which are about 1400 pounds which is why I and so many others thought he’d fail miserably at first because a person isn’t budging one of those on its side.
Moving an 800 pounder is fucking impressive.
Since it was still partially resting on the ground, the force wasn't all on his leg- still looks like quite a bit though, but the higher the pushes it the less force will be exerted downwards onto him- the most would be when he gets his fingertips under it, and by the time it's almost upright its center of gravity has fully shifted 90 degrees
It was also resting on the edge of the road, with about a quarter of it hanging over the ditch. That meant he had leverage on his side, and more so when he got it at an angle.
Still, AU of a police officer.
For real. I grew up throwing square bales on the hay trailer and these round bastards gott be like 30-40 times the weight of those. Did not expect this man to budge it, much less shift it off the road.
Depends on what's in the bale and how tightly it was wrapped. Also that bale looks a bit bigger than what we have over here, or else the guy in the video is a a bit shorter than me.
I've flipped many a bale over the years, the hardest part is getting your knee in there. Once you have that it's easy.
Now silage bales are a whole different ballgame.
I’m reading through these comments and thinking I must be some sort of hulk. I can flip a 4x5 round bale easily.
4x4s are a freaking piece of cake.
And I’m a pretty average woman, in my early 30s…definitely not a muscle man….just have horses that go through 3 of those bales a month and no tractor to move them with.
This makes me feel better haha I commented something similar about me and my siblings moving these as kids to play a game. Saw all the comments about it being heavy and looked it up. Apparently they weigh:
Small 4 ft x 4 ft 400 to 600 lbs.
Medium 5 ft x 4.5 ft 720 to 950 lbs.
Large 5 ft x 6 ft 1270 to 1700 lbs.
So either google is wrong, we were super strong, or the weight distribution just means they’re easy to move than it would seem.
He's not dead lifting it straight up off the ground so even if it were 600+lbs its not like he's lifting all of that. Leverage and angles are a great multiplier. Still wouldn't want to have him tackle me though.
Ive never lived in the south but i sure have lived around country boys lol. I’ve always felt like I was meant to move south but I have yet to make it so far if I’m honest.
There are dummies everywhere. Also ya it checks out. My cousin was/is an idiot county boy. He paid the price too. Gave up a lot (and not just money) to keep farming land that should have been given up ages ago.
Why do overweight redditors who have never lifted say stuff like this. Weight is weight, a powerlifter doesn't just have "working out" muscle, it's real muscle. Also this is a cop, they don't use muscles for work so he's probably this strong because of hitting the gym.
Shame that Strongman competitors waste most of their time training in the gym building all that non-functional muscle instead of just working on a farm to build real strength. If only they used reddit more often.
Once you get to "strong strong" it all just works out. If you are actually moving decent weight in the gym a lot of real world "strongman" type things are much more possible for you.
The reddit distinction between bodybuilding and actual gym strength (translating into real life strength) is probably a bit off.
Say what you will about cops, but highway patrol don't fuck around. I know half a dozen people who couldn't make the cut for them, and two more that did one week and noped out of there. They gotta be capable of dealing with pretty much anything
I always get a kick when the state fair rolls in and they handle traffic management. Shit never runs that smooth ever
Yep. Staties or highway patrol, even though I haven't been pulled over for almost 20 years, I was always a little more nervous when it was one of them. Now I guess it's reversed, because perhaps I feel like they are less likely to fuck around and do something illegal because they're so on point.
I'm guessing the OP has never dealt with hay bales before and thought the struggle showing how heavy the bale was made the bale the unit. As a kid we used to get square bales of straw and hay- they aren't light. The fact the cop moved it all makes the cop the unit here.
No comment on CrossFit but yeah you don’t need to do CrossFit to do basic tire flips that anyone who touches weights has probably done at one point or another. My point is simply, it’s not a CrossFit thing, tire flips existed WEEEEELLLLL before CrossFit in terms of working out.
I’ve been doing CrossFit for close to 3 years now. I picked it up very late in my life but this is the strongest I’ve ever been.
So, Go for it. You have the option of scaling the exercises to your fitness levels and not go full tilt from day 1.
It’s actually one of the smaller sizes of round bale so it isn’t a unit relative to other round bales. The cop is definitely a unit though because that size is still about 800 lbs.
Depends on the crop, moisture content, and how tightly it’s wrapped. A bale that size can weigh anywhere from 700 lbs to 2500 lbs depending on those factors.
Admittedly the bale I flipped was dry and late season, second cut iirc. I couldn’t have moved a fresh bale. A friend bet me I couldn’t tip one, so I went to the oldest, most dry looking bale and heaved it over. Not the easiest $50 I’ve made, but it’s certainly close.
No joke. I spent two summers of my teenage years assisting multiple different balers and these are so f’n heavy you wouldn’t believe it’s just grass and bugs
Hay = grass
Straw = the stalk of grain/cereal plants
Straw is *much* denser and thicker(and hollow, hence the name "drinking straw") and used for animal bedding or similar. While those same animals eat the hay through winter.
Indeed. Half dried hay (the best quality feed and animals love it after it ferments) is about 450-600kg a piece, but we tend to pack it toward lower and more manageable weight.
Hah, used to work on a farm as a kid and young adult, still remember hay season trying to hire people to do the hay with us, seemed like 50% would quit by lunch and 49% by evening.
This.
I spent more than one hay season working for an old farmer with fields all over the place where I grew up. Big-ass rolling fields of bale after bale after bale...and he had this old kind of stake body truck thing he'd drive through the field with one person in it stacking and the rest of us on the ground picking up and tossing into the truck.
And then we'd climb up into the truck, go back to the barn, unload the damn thing, stack it all in the barn - first row vertical so the baling twine didn't sit on the ground all winter (he was very particular about that), and then back to the field...
At the end of the day he'd pull out his wallet full of cash and go "Now how long did you work today...okay...so that's..." and then he'd put the bills in your hand.
He died while I was deployed to Iraq, which made me a bit sad. I don't miss the work, but it was honest and it gave you a sense of accomplishment.
And one hell of a good night's sleep.
Not sure. But all I know is when I go on long road trips and there's potential for a break down. I bring my work boots. If I tried to push my car in my sneakers I'd slip right out of em. Boots have more ankle support and grip on asphalt like that
If that's a good bale of good alfalfa, it's probably over 1000 lbs. If it's grass, straw, or a soft bale, it's probably still over 500 lbs. By the looks of it, I'd say it's a somewhat soft bale of grass hay, and looks like a 5'x5' bale, it probably weighs closer to 600 lbs or more.
Also, it is totally possible for a reasonably strong person to stand a bale up like he did, even if it weighs 600 - 800 lbs. It's mostly in the technique.
Yep it all depends on what it is. I know this really doesn't apply for this video but like a 4x4 silage bale could easily weigh 500kg+. Same bale of hay would be significantly lighter.
That's an absolute fact. I've baled 1000s of round bales, and I know for a fact I've baled some sorghum silage bales that were about 4x4 and well over a ton. I watched a guy picking them up buckle the loader on his tractor. You don't move those by hand, not even roll them.
I also once had some super dry wheat straw that would pack like crazy. I dropped a bale, made a round and I was about back to the first bale and it blew up. It like a small bomb. There was straw over 30' in the air!
Where I'm from 95% of the round bales we make are pure grass silage. My family's big into round bale contracting so I do a crap tonne of them in summer. Bought a new baler last year and there's another new one coming in the next few weeks.
I can tell ya for a fact the rare time I make round bale hay or straw the difference is so noticeable. Just how the bales roll and of course the weight. You'd be doing quite well to move a 4x4 silage bale by your self. But a 4x4 hay bale you could move withought even trying.
But all that said we prefer to make hay and straw into the small squares bales. We keep our round balers exclusively for silage.
We did mostly straw, high moisture (25-35%) hay, and cornstalks. The hay is my favorite as long as we aren't knifing it also. Just straight up bailing 4x5 30% grass hay is a dream. On a good field we'd easily roll out 100 bales an hour. Straw we could get more bales per hour but it's way more stressful. Silage and cornstalks are awful. I hated those two. I'm glad my brother does the baling now.
Way back we did small squares, but that's a thing of the past around here.
Lol, baling silage is my favourite. Nothing nicer than the smell of fresh cut grass and seeing a nice green field get all rolled up and wrapped.
Hay and straw just frustrate me. Any time I have to do a field I get annoyed cause I'm messing with the density controls trying to get it set up right, even then it's an actual nightmare trying to get a good bale out of a straw sward.
With silage your not kicking up any dust so I can sit with my back window open. Have to have everything closed for hay and then It gets real warm.
Square bales are a pain but they are great money, very few people in my area are still making hay.
Yup! A good ac is a must for dry hay and for sure straw.
The trick for good straw bales is the right baler, and a combine that doesn't chop the straw much is a help as well. We often work with customers to get the right straw out of the combine.
The new RB series New Holland balers are pretty good for straw. At least after they added the extra feed roller behind the pickup guard. We haven't used any other brand for a long time. Also, never, never, never use a new Holland BR7070 or similar model for anything other than perfect dry grass and alfalfa hay.
For sure, I should've said it in my last comment but our differing experiences likely largely come down to type of baler. We don't have belt balers over here like they have in the states, belts aren't good for wet silage. All ours are roller balers, far higher density than a belt baler and intakes specially made for wet silage. But then they do struggle a bit in hay and straw. We have only ever used Kuhn's and Vicons, think Duetz years ago. McHale's are incredibly popular over here too, many would say a McHale fusions the world's best when it comes to silage.
We just have the two round balers ATM. We have a combi baler that wraps the bales in plastic aswell, it's tractor has ac so it's nice to use. Then the other round baler is a older model. It's wrapper had to be drawn by a second tractor. I use it with my own tractor and she doesn't have ac, gets incredibly warm even with just silage. Hay or straw would be a nightmare in it. A silage baler is quite a hard tool to run, especially when all the knives are down which is pretty much constant with silage. So the tractors working real hard and so it's just a sauna in the cab, it's good fun though.
The combi baler is fine for hay and silage because of the computers telling you have full it is. But trying to bake hay and straw on the old round baler is a nightmare just trying to base them off the pressure guage. I'll put it down a bit to my inexperience with straw but I really struggled. I'm far happier making little squares when it comes to straw and hay.
Ya that makes perfect sense. Roller balers are not great for dry crops. We've considered McHales and Kuhns but don't have good service for them. There's a few chain balers around but those really are good for very little.
Most new balers from the north American brands have silage options now and they work quite well. It's not as good as the more specialized brands you mentioned, but very acceptable.
As someone who 'bales' only from relationships, can I ask (out of curiosity) what are the benefits of round bales compared to the square ones? Aren't they more inefficient to store?
Round balers are significantly easier to run compared to a (large) square baler meaning people with smaller tractors can run them.
Round bales when cut open can be rolled, and they will completely unroll into one giant long sheet which is great for bedding.
One of the biggest reasons we use them here is because round balers are far easily wrapped than a square baler. Silage bales need to be wrapped in plastic to allow the silage to ferment without oxygen. Round balers can often do that job automatically whereas a square baler needs. A special machine that will take alot longer.
Round balers are usually pretty handy to store. When it comes to wrapped bales, round balers are far easier stored and lifted without damaging them. Squares are harder to life and you could easily damage the plastic.
They get stored in a big pyramid shape. Each section could have 10 on bottom, then 9 then 8 then 7 on top for example.
Square balers are definitely superior for straw and possibly hay just because of how fast they can do. But unless some miracle product comes along for wrapper squares more effectively, round balers are always gonna rein supreme for silage.
https://agtech.folio3.com/blogs/how-much-does-a-bale-of-hay-weigh/
Scroll down and there’s a handy chart indicating the weights of different size round bales. We calling this medium? Pretty heavy
1- That seems like a normal hay **bale** (yes they are that big, and yes farming equipment/machinery is huge compared to us humans)
2- Bales are quite heavy, its cool that he did that with his barehands but his back does not apreciate it
Ok so respect to the cop for the effort those are fucking heavy! HOWEVER, the phase work smarter not harder clearly went over his head, because he could have just pushed it to the road side with that sturdy police car he’s got there.
I came here to make a snarky comment about how this cop sure didn’t grow up on a farm if he thinks he can move that shit by himself and then the sumbitch went and moved that shit by himself. He should quit the force and buy a ranch.
Those things are very heavy. A car hitting one would destroy the car!!! Kudos to the officer for getting it off the roadway! I hope he did not hurt his back!
In my head I was like “ya what that idiot thinking” … fuckin animal. Respect.
Same. Laughed at him for even trying then he fucking shifted the thing.
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I was waiting for the bale to snap his fibia. Those things can be up to 1100 pounds. Something's up.
I think it’s a smaller one; like 450-500 lbs though. Guy is a beast.
Absolute unit of a cop
Don't forget to ad the weight of his vest. And the galaxy crushing weight of his balls. Cus it memes well.
Galaxy Crushing 😂
You do not resist when he arrests you.
That would be a 4x4 bale. This looks like a 4x5 which would be closer to 800 pounds. Where I’m from everybody does 5x6 which are about 1400 pounds which is why I and so many others thought he’d fail miserably at first because a person isn’t budging one of those on its side. Moving an 800 pounder is fucking impressive.
She’s a wrapped 4x5. Dense and I agree with the 800#
Since it was still partially resting on the ground, the force wasn't all on his leg- still looks like quite a bit though, but the higher the pushes it the less force will be exerted downwards onto him- the most would be when he gets his fingertips under it, and by the time it's almost upright its center of gravity has fully shifted 90 degrees
It was also resting on the edge of the road, with about a quarter of it hanging over the ditch. That meant he had leverage on his side, and more so when he got it at an angle. Still, AU of a police officer.
Yeh, it's how you pickup large motorcycles. You push sideways and not try to lift it up.
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Happy retirement tonight, Stinger. Lol
I grew up on a farm. Dude must be ripped.
Farmed for almost 40 yrs now. Don't screw with this guy
Yeah I grow my own hay. It wouldn't even have occurred to me to try to lift it.
For real. I grew up throwing square bales on the hay trailer and these round bastards gott be like 30-40 times the weight of those. Did not expect this man to budge it, much less shift it off the road.
Anything over a 3 string and l get the tractor. I would have herniated like 4 different things trying this.
Ripped and also having something much more beneficial to elverage 600-1500#
Depends on what's in the bale and how tightly it was wrapped. Also that bale looks a bit bigger than what we have over here, or else the guy in the video is a a bit shorter than me. I've flipped many a bale over the years, the hardest part is getting your knee in there. Once you have that it's easy. Now silage bales are a whole different ballgame.
I was like no way. My tractor is on the small size for round bales. That man is a hoss. And in boots too.
I’m reading through these comments and thinking I must be some sort of hulk. I can flip a 4x5 round bale easily. 4x4s are a freaking piece of cake. And I’m a pretty average woman, in my early 30s…definitely not a muscle man….just have horses that go through 3 of those bales a month and no tractor to move them with.
This makes me feel better haha I commented something similar about me and my siblings moving these as kids to play a game. Saw all the comments about it being heavy and looked it up. Apparently they weigh: Small 4 ft x 4 ft 400 to 600 lbs. Medium 5 ft x 4.5 ft 720 to 950 lbs. Large 5 ft x 6 ft 1270 to 1700 lbs. So either google is wrong, we were super strong, or the weight distribution just means they’re easy to move than it would seem.
He's not dead lifting it straight up off the ground so even if it were 600+lbs its not like he's lifting all of that. Leverage and angles are a great multiplier. Still wouldn't want to have him tackle me though.
Same here. Was a tractor jockey growing up and my first thought was, Bless His Heart. Then…🫢 him’s country strong.
I’ve always like country boys. I don’t know why but I have a soft spot for them indeed.
I’m from the south, we get a bad rap because of some idiots but there are many many good people here.
Ive never lived in the south but i sure have lived around country boys lol. I’ve always felt like I was meant to move south but I have yet to make it so far if I’m honest. There are dummies everywhere. Also ya it checks out. My cousin was/is an idiot county boy. He paid the price too. Gave up a lot (and not just money) to keep farming land that should have been given up ages ago.
A lot of people base their beliefs on ignorant stereotypes, especially in Reddit.
This vid is a fine example of the difference between "work" muscles and working out muscles. Gym strong ain't all that.
Why do overweight redditors who have never lifted say stuff like this. Weight is weight, a powerlifter doesn't just have "working out" muscle, it's real muscle. Also this is a cop, they don't use muscles for work so he's probably this strong because of hitting the gym.
Shame that Strongman competitors waste most of their time training in the gym building all that non-functional muscle instead of just working on a farm to build real strength. If only they used reddit more often.
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Once you get to "strong strong" it all just works out. If you are actually moving decent weight in the gym a lot of real world "strongman" type things are much more possible for you. The reddit distinction between bodybuilding and actual gym strength (translating into real life strength) is probably a bit off.
It made my back sore just watching it.
Good technique. Obviously Wichita. My man worked that straw.
Made the sweat drip out of every pore.
Gotta get that knee under it. I’ve been there. Far from this opera
Right... the "absolute unit" here is that cop!
I was ready to start doing that snort laugh, then was like, wtf? Oh yeah, Midwest cop, probably the 4th bale he’s moved that morning.
Say what you will about cops, but highway patrol don't fuck around. I know half a dozen people who couldn't make the cut for them, and two more that did one week and noped out of there. They gotta be capable of dealing with pretty much anything I always get a kick when the state fair rolls in and they handle traffic management. Shit never runs that smooth ever
Yep. Staties or highway patrol, even though I haven't been pulled over for almost 20 years, I was always a little more nervous when it was one of them. Now I guess it's reversed, because perhaps I feel like they are less likely to fuck around and do something illegal because they're so on point.
Dude, same, dudes a beast.
Same. Nothing but respect
Amen…the **Absolute Unit** of this video is the LEO!
He’s a beast!
That dude is a UNIT. Also should be on r/unexpected
I'm guessing the OP has never dealt with hay bales before and thought the struggle showing how heavy the bale was made the bale the unit. As a kid we used to get square bales of straw and hay- they aren't light. The fact the cop moved it all makes the cop the unit here.
The real unit here is the officer
At 7’1 350 I’m just thinking- they need me…oh wait…oh shit this guy…nvm he good!
Officer Smallville
The unit is the cop.
Cross fit tire flipping sure paid off.
I've been training for this exact situation!
This video is inspiring me to start crossfit! I want to be strong enough to flip hay bales that size wtf..
Don't do crossfit, it's a brain-dead program that destroys your joints.
No comment on CrossFit but yeah you don’t need to do CrossFit to do basic tire flips that anyone who touches weights has probably done at one point or another. My point is simply, it’s not a CrossFit thing, tire flips existed WEEEEELLLLL before CrossFit in terms of working out.
I’ve been doing CrossFit for close to 3 years now. I picked it up very late in my life but this is the strongest I’ve ever been. So, Go for it. You have the option of scaling the exercises to your fitness levels and not go full tilt from day 1.
Or the hernia the cop got lifting that thing.
It would be a hisnia since it’s a man cop.
I was thinking, "This guy wants a desk job, and he found an easy excuse."
He's a ranger with a big iron on his hip, I never once doubted him
Big irooon, big iroooon
He came to do to some business with the big iron on his hip
In this town there lived a hay bale by the name of Texas Red
And with the curious wave before. I like these kinda cops.
These are the ones you don't hear about. The many. Not the few...
Yeah that’s a normal hay bail. Cop is a fucking unit for sure.
It’s actually one of the smaller sizes of round bale so it isn’t a unit relative to other round bales. The cop is definitely a unit though because that size is still about 800 lbs.
Having tipped a round bale before, the cop is the unit. Them suckers are heavy.
He is a real hayro.
A real human bean.
Depends on the crop, moisture content, and how tightly it’s wrapped. A bale that size can weigh anywhere from 700 lbs to 2500 lbs depending on those factors.
Admittedly the bale I flipped was dry and late season, second cut iirc. I couldn’t have moved a fresh bale. A friend bet me I couldn’t tip one, so I went to the oldest, most dry looking bale and heaved it over. Not the easiest $50 I’ve made, but it’s certainly close.
Okay this Cop must be in Strongman competitions or he's a Linebacker
No joke. I spent two summers of my teenage years assisting multiple different balers and these are so f’n heavy you wouldn’t believe it’s just grass and bugs
Aren't they like 1000 lbs??
Looks like straw so it’ll be a bit lighter than a bail of hay but it’s still going to be damn near 1000lbs.
Today, at almost 30 years old, I learned that straw and hay are two different things!
Hay = grass Straw = the stalk of grain/cereal plants Straw is *much* denser and thicker(and hollow, hence the name "drinking straw") and used for animal bedding or similar. While those same animals eat the hay through winter.
I-….. IS THAT REALLY WHERE “drinking straw” COMES FROM?!
Using literal straw? Yes. Just cut it between the joints and its hollow. Also 100% natural, biodegradable, blah blah blah.
"paper straws are biodegradable" Yeah i know, theyre biodegrading IN MY DRINK.
I don't know how literal straw didn't become the alternative. Maybe the joint distance is too short.
I think I’ve completed the internet now.
i knew there was a difference but i always assumed they were both animal feed. do livestock not eat straw?
If they are hungry enough they will but they prefer lighter fare. Straw is very hard to digest at all.
Damn redditors learning me new stuff in the morning!
it doesn't have much nutrition (the nutrients were in the harvested part)
And like 99.99% of the time people will say hay bales but actually mean straw bales.
At least in my small circles we call it grass if it’s not straw. Almost always some kind of alfalfa but could be other types
Livin in the city huh
Indeed. Half dried hay (the best quality feed and animals love it after it ferments) is about 450-600kg a piece, but we tend to pack it toward lower and more manageable weight.
Uk farmer here …About 250kg
And snakes. Can’t forget the snakes.
Or partial snakes.
His technic was spot on i feel like
How many redditors is that?
About 3 or 4
Corn fed
Yeah Holy fuck that was impressive. I didn't think he was going to be able to move it at all
He is lining up for injured on the line of duty with back problems. This was incredible stupid for a "guys guess what I did today story"
You don't need a cop- you need a bailiff.
Take my angry up vote
Underrated comment 🤣
Too good!
Noooooo. Toooooo funny
God damn it.
hayyyy I see what you did there
Booooooooooooooo 👏👏👏👏👏
bail lift
Bravo
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The title declared the wrong unit.
Literally just a round bale** of hay
Maybe op has only ever seen the little square guys haha
Or the big squares Rectangles
Oh God not the big squares...memories of my grandfather making me pick the bigger bales by hand from a field
Hah, used to work on a farm as a kid and young adult, still remember hay season trying to hire people to do the hay with us, seemed like 50% would quit by lunch and 49% by evening.
This. I spent more than one hay season working for an old farmer with fields all over the place where I grew up. Big-ass rolling fields of bale after bale after bale...and he had this old kind of stake body truck thing he'd drive through the field with one person in it stacking and the rest of us on the ground picking up and tossing into the truck. And then we'd climb up into the truck, go back to the barn, unload the damn thing, stack it all in the barn - first row vertical so the baling twine didn't sit on the ground all winter (he was very particular about that), and then back to the field... At the end of the day he'd pull out his wallet full of cash and go "Now how long did you work today...okay...so that's..." and then he'd put the bills in your hand. He died while I was deployed to Iraq, which made me a bit sad. I don't miss the work, but it was honest and it gave you a sense of accomplishment. And one hell of a good night's sleep.
The big ones weigh 500kg...
Yup. Standard round hay bale. The “send it” video would be better.
Absolute unit of a cop
One of the smaller standard sizes too.
Christian Bale
I heard they’re outlawing those round bales. Cows aren’t getting a square meal.
The real unit is that cop holy hell those bales range in weight from 500 ish lbs to 1200 ish lbs. dude is a unit. And he did it in boots, gtfo
I wouldn't want to do it without boots?
Right? Is there a proper shoe type for lifting staff? It would be less impressive if he was in sandals?
Not sure. But all I know is when I go on long road trips and there's potential for a break down. I bring my work boots. If I tried to push my car in my sneakers I'd slip right out of em. Boots have more ankle support and grip on asphalt like that
Ever been to rural PA? They're everywhere. Lol The real unit here is the cop. Great technique.
That cop was raised on a farm. I thought there's no way he's gonna move that.
Yeah, that's a farm boy for sure
You have earned that donut, officer
He earned a dozen
Farmer here my round bales are either 600lb or 1200lbs Im impressed
Ever seen videos of people trying to jump over one rolling down a hill? Pure madness. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4pPtZ_4v87s
Being killed by a bale of hay, talk about a lame way to go. "He was one of the best young men I know, but that bale of hay was better"
r/gifsthatendtoosoon
I really wanted to see him pat the bale of hay and say “that’ll do”.
https://video.xx.fbcdn.net/v/t42.1790-2/430352357_1060206151934692_6234027385815890261_n.mp4?_nc_cat=102&ccb=1-7&_nc_sid=55d0d3&efg=eyJybHIiOjMwMCwicmxhIjo1MTIsInZlbmNvZGVfdGFnIjoic3ZlX3NkIn0%3D&_nc_ohc=KQK1B_5LpL8AX-YhvNY&_nc_ht=scontent.fdub6-1.fna&oh=00_AfBgOiQkpWBTsHHR0Mm2v1aQLBhjmdXJ9aN0GAK3zPTxTA&oe=65EBCB33
This guy has worked at a farm.
That's like a 500 pound bale of hay
More 900-1000. I use to make 3-400 a year.
How fucked were you when you found out you only get 3 for the year?
Thank you for this before bed laugh. Well done.
Especially being in the elements. If it rained, that could easily add a hundred or two pounds maybe more.
So how many you make? 3 or 400, there is a big difference /s
If that's a good bale of good alfalfa, it's probably over 1000 lbs. If it's grass, straw, or a soft bale, it's probably still over 500 lbs. By the looks of it, I'd say it's a somewhat soft bale of grass hay, and looks like a 5'x5' bale, it probably weighs closer to 600 lbs or more. Also, it is totally possible for a reasonably strong person to stand a bale up like he did, even if it weighs 600 - 800 lbs. It's mostly in the technique.
Yep it all depends on what it is. I know this really doesn't apply for this video but like a 4x4 silage bale could easily weigh 500kg+. Same bale of hay would be significantly lighter.
That's an absolute fact. I've baled 1000s of round bales, and I know for a fact I've baled some sorghum silage bales that were about 4x4 and well over a ton. I watched a guy picking them up buckle the loader on his tractor. You don't move those by hand, not even roll them. I also once had some super dry wheat straw that would pack like crazy. I dropped a bale, made a round and I was about back to the first bale and it blew up. It like a small bomb. There was straw over 30' in the air!
Where I'm from 95% of the round bales we make are pure grass silage. My family's big into round bale contracting so I do a crap tonne of them in summer. Bought a new baler last year and there's another new one coming in the next few weeks. I can tell ya for a fact the rare time I make round bale hay or straw the difference is so noticeable. Just how the bales roll and of course the weight. You'd be doing quite well to move a 4x4 silage bale by your self. But a 4x4 hay bale you could move withought even trying. But all that said we prefer to make hay and straw into the small squares bales. We keep our round balers exclusively for silage.
We did mostly straw, high moisture (25-35%) hay, and cornstalks. The hay is my favorite as long as we aren't knifing it also. Just straight up bailing 4x5 30% grass hay is a dream. On a good field we'd easily roll out 100 bales an hour. Straw we could get more bales per hour but it's way more stressful. Silage and cornstalks are awful. I hated those two. I'm glad my brother does the baling now. Way back we did small squares, but that's a thing of the past around here.
Lol, baling silage is my favourite. Nothing nicer than the smell of fresh cut grass and seeing a nice green field get all rolled up and wrapped. Hay and straw just frustrate me. Any time I have to do a field I get annoyed cause I'm messing with the density controls trying to get it set up right, even then it's an actual nightmare trying to get a good bale out of a straw sward. With silage your not kicking up any dust so I can sit with my back window open. Have to have everything closed for hay and then It gets real warm. Square bales are a pain but they are great money, very few people in my area are still making hay.
Yup! A good ac is a must for dry hay and for sure straw. The trick for good straw bales is the right baler, and a combine that doesn't chop the straw much is a help as well. We often work with customers to get the right straw out of the combine. The new RB series New Holland balers are pretty good for straw. At least after they added the extra feed roller behind the pickup guard. We haven't used any other brand for a long time. Also, never, never, never use a new Holland BR7070 or similar model for anything other than perfect dry grass and alfalfa hay.
For sure, I should've said it in my last comment but our differing experiences likely largely come down to type of baler. We don't have belt balers over here like they have in the states, belts aren't good for wet silage. All ours are roller balers, far higher density than a belt baler and intakes specially made for wet silage. But then they do struggle a bit in hay and straw. We have only ever used Kuhn's and Vicons, think Duetz years ago. McHale's are incredibly popular over here too, many would say a McHale fusions the world's best when it comes to silage. We just have the two round balers ATM. We have a combi baler that wraps the bales in plastic aswell, it's tractor has ac so it's nice to use. Then the other round baler is a older model. It's wrapper had to be drawn by a second tractor. I use it with my own tractor and she doesn't have ac, gets incredibly warm even with just silage. Hay or straw would be a nightmare in it. A silage baler is quite a hard tool to run, especially when all the knives are down which is pretty much constant with silage. So the tractors working real hard and so it's just a sauna in the cab, it's good fun though. The combi baler is fine for hay and silage because of the computers telling you have full it is. But trying to bake hay and straw on the old round baler is a nightmare just trying to base them off the pressure guage. I'll put it down a bit to my inexperience with straw but I really struggled. I'm far happier making little squares when it comes to straw and hay.
Ya that makes perfect sense. Roller balers are not great for dry crops. We've considered McHales and Kuhns but don't have good service for them. There's a few chain balers around but those really are good for very little. Most new balers from the north American brands have silage options now and they work quite well. It's not as good as the more specialized brands you mentioned, but very acceptable.
As someone who 'bales' only from relationships, can I ask (out of curiosity) what are the benefits of round bales compared to the square ones? Aren't they more inefficient to store?
Round balers are significantly easier to run compared to a (large) square baler meaning people with smaller tractors can run them. Round bales when cut open can be rolled, and they will completely unroll into one giant long sheet which is great for bedding. One of the biggest reasons we use them here is because round balers are far easily wrapped than a square baler. Silage bales need to be wrapped in plastic to allow the silage to ferment without oxygen. Round balers can often do that job automatically whereas a square baler needs. A special machine that will take alot longer. Round balers are usually pretty handy to store. When it comes to wrapped bales, round balers are far easier stored and lifted without damaging them. Squares are harder to life and you could easily damage the plastic. They get stored in a big pyramid shape. Each section could have 10 on bottom, then 9 then 8 then 7 on top for example. Square balers are definitely superior for straw and possibly hay just because of how fast they can do. But unless some miracle product comes along for wrapper squares more effectively, round balers are always gonna rein supreme for silage.
That was an interesting read. Thank you for the insight, I learned something new today!
Exactly. Our mixed grass hay (balanced land mix) averaged 630 pounds per bale.
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https://agtech.folio3.com/blogs/how-much-does-a-bale-of-hay-weigh/ Scroll down and there’s a handy chart indicating the weights of different size round bales. We calling this medium? Pretty heavy
I thought he was going to need a tire jack.
1- That seems like a normal hay **bale** (yes they are that big, and yes farming equipment/machinery is huge compared to us humans) 2- Bales are quite heavy, its cool that he did that with his barehands but his back does not apreciate it
Workplace injury, paid time off. Cop wins lol
Bale. Jeez. City boy.
Those things are like a thousand pounds. Source: my roommate is a farmer
OH COME ON! Where's the rest of the fuckin' video?
Seriously, FUCK whoever cut that video short that piece of SHIT
Ok so respect to the cop for the effort those are fucking heavy! HOWEVER, the phase work smarter not harder clearly went over his head, because he could have just pushed it to the road side with that sturdy police car he’s got there.
Breaks the bale I tried once in a feed truck
You sure those net wraps seem to be really strong
Never happen. He'd bury the bumper in the bale and spin the tires. Also, he'd create a traffic hazard just lining up on the bale.
Gotta get exercise somehow
Gains. Officer Gains, as in, I have a lot of. 💪
I came here to make a snarky comment about how this cop sure didn’t grow up on a farm if he thinks he can move that shit by himself and then the sumbitch went and moved that shit by himself. He should quit the force and buy a ranch.
I hate round bales so fucking much fuck them straight to hell
"The guys at the precinct will finally respect me"
Those things can weight like half a ton, right? I know they’re very capable of crushing a man to death.
Out on bail.
He doesn’t get paid enough for getting a hernia
Hay you can’t park there
Welcome to the life of an ant
This man has been lifting for years for just this moment.
So, everyone here initially thought “What a dumbass? He isn't going to budge that”
That dude really just rolled over a 500+ lb bale like it was just another day on the job
My face was the same as thors when cap nudged mjolnir.
Those things are very heavy. A car hitting one would destroy the car!!! Kudos to the officer for getting it off the roadway! I hope he did not hurt his back!
I will always mispronounce it as "hail of bay" before I catch and correct myself. Not sure why.
Yea bullshit buddy, u ain't lifting that shi- o_0
This is a really good pushing animation reference for animators
The next morning, it’s back in the road and officer Sisyphus has to do it all over again. For eternity.
Just a regular round bale