Trolley or cart for moving slices of big bay haylage?

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What does everyone use to move slices of big bale hay or haylage about? I am currently using a wheelbarrow but I can only get two slices on and I'd like to move three at a time. It is also a pain hauling it on and getting it balanced on top! I've seen Stubbs do a big trolley with mesh drop down sides which looks like it would do the job better but is horribly expensive. I've also seen similar things marketed as garden carts/trolleys and was thinking of getting one of them. Anyone used similar? How easy are they to pull/push and steer? Would only be used on hardcore track, no mud.

(BTW doesn't work for us to have big bales in the field, and I don't want to drag about in builders' bags or similar).
 
I use a wheelbarrow, usually carrying about 4 sections (my record is 6!). I load the hay sideways, as it's easier to balance, and you can fit more on. Also leaves room for feeds/rugs inside the wheelbarrow!
 
annagain said:
What about something like this? I haven't used one for hay so no idea if it would work, I just use a wheelbarrow. This came to mind as my mum has one for the garden - although seems to wheel my nieces around in it more than anything!
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Pandamoto-...id=1540557137&sr=8-16&keywords=garden+trolley
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Thanks, that is the sort of thing I have been looking at! It seems ideal, but wondered whether anyone had actually used one for that purpose and how they found it. Don't want to buy one and find you can't steer it when loaded down with haylage, for example.
 
Antw23uk said:
Builders sack over a wheelbarrow any day. Load it up, turn round and drag it. In the mud and snow its a godsend :)
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Been there, done that, doesn't work for me. Perhaps it is better on grass and mud, but I need to take it down a hardcore path and there is too much friction and kills my back and arms.
 
TGM said:
Thanks, that is the sort of thing I have been looking at! It seems ideal, but wondered whether anyone had actually used one for that purpose and how they found it. Don't want to buy one and find you can't steer it when loaded down with haylage, for example.
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They are a PITA to steer.
I can’t understand why you can only get 2 slices on a wheelbarrow, is it a little one?
The big, double wheeled barrows are a godsend. Easily get 4 slices, if not more
 
ihatework said:
They are a PITA to steer.
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That was my worry!

I can’t understand why you can only get 2 slices on a wheelbarrow, is it a little one?
The big, double wheeled barrows are a godsend. Easily get 4 slices, if not more
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It is a one wheeled 100ltr barrow. I think I will have to investigate the double wheeled barrows, although part of the problem is the height of the blasted things. I am very short so lifting the haylage onto the barrow is half of the problem. I was thinking the trolleys with the sides down would be lower so I wouldn't have to lift the slice so high!
 
Auslander said:
I just found this pic. You can fit 5 sections on a wheelbarrow!

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I think I need a video tutorial of how you get them on there! By the time I get to the third slice I start knocking the lower ones off. I think it may be because I am short and can't lift the slices high enough! Even if I got them on, I'm sure they will start falling off when I lifted the barrow handles!
 
Measure the width of any gates, doorways or other narrow spots you need to get through.

A drill, a pop riveter, some hinges and three panels of aluminium checker-plate to sizes to suit the narrowest places mentioned above, three cleats (one for each panel) and some rope.

Rivet the hinges to the sides and front of the barrow. Rivet the panels to the hinges.

Rivet a cleat on each panel, so that you can attach a rope to one panel, throw it over the slices in the barrow and tie off to the cleats on the other panels.

This enlarges your barrow to carry anything that the wheel and your arms can stand.
 
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