trolley for moving haylage around

Our YO had a brilliant trolley for moving big hay bales into the barn, which is a couple inches too tight for the tractor. Worked wekk for years until the other week when it screamed for help and then the wheels fell off!!

Not quite sure what we will do now so will watch thread with interest.
 
Unless you have a vehicle to put it onto the trolley in the first place how are you going to move it onto the trolley ??
We have no machinery bar a pick up truck and this year for the first time have bought in large haylage bales = PITA for handling. The farmer kindly stacked them for us when he delivered them and we have resorted to using the pick up to pull one off the stack and hope it lands in the right sort of area for us to deal with it from there ............ Once open we move it about in those 1 ton builders bags and we can handle about 4 slices in the bag at a time (both of us have bad backs etc, but we can just about manage to sling that into the pick up bed between us). Our bales are supposed to be about 250 kgs, but there is no way that they are - more like 4-500kgs.
 
Ummm we just use a normal sack truck to move hayledge. Three or four of is get the bale upright and then onto the sack truck and then wheel... No probs,
 
Its should be possible to use a lever of some kind to get it on the trolley, if its only a few inches high as that one on ebay is. But I dont think the wheels would cope with the gravel driveway.Buying this size bale is so much cheaper - it costs £40 and lasts 10 days for 2 huge horses,. I might have to resort to opening it where it was unloaded and use the big builders bags but YO is fanatical about mess so dont weant to really - it s pain to clean up gravel!I do have a sack trolley but the bale is too big to sit on it properly.Bloomin heck - PITA is right!
 
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