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Big round bales are moved hundreds of yards! Some where in South Dakota.

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Talk about head winds! Yikes! :yikes:
 
colomtnflyer said:
Oh...come on! I bet it was just bored high school students who couldn't find any cows to tip one night... They decide to rearrange a farmers field instead! :rolleyes::rolleyes::rolleyes:
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Have you tried to push a round bale? :nono:

I can hardly believe wind could do that.
 
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So how windy was it?

And yea, great photo! Bales may be round but they aren't perfectly round. I've tried to move them and it's usually impossible. IF they are really tight, fresh, round, and on smooth hard ground MAYBE...

That sounded kinda, uh, strange...

Talking about hay bales here folks. Move along.
 
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Geico266 said:
Big round bales are moved hundreds of yards! Some where in South Dakota.

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Talk about head winds! Yikes! :yikes:
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I had that SAME headwind coming back from Oshkosh this year. :yesnod:

At one point I was showing ground speeds in the 30's, And that ain't no BS.:yikes:
 
Quick search on the web traced that photo to Medicine Hat area in Alberta. Well known for it's winds.
 
thats amazing. i landed next to a bunch of hay bales once and those suckers are big and heavy.
 
tonycondon said:
thats amazing. i landed next to a bunch of hay bales once and those suckers are big and heavy.
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As I recall, you came within inches of smashing nose first right into one!
 
He's just too darned innocent looking to ever pull something like that. He hasn't lived long enough for that twist of fate that comes later in life.

He's rebuilding a glider in his one bedroom apartment for pete's sake!!!!!:yikes:
 
Why do you think he's REBUILDING IT!
 
I guess it was so windy that the hay bale rolled in front of the glider just as Tony was landing! :idea:
 
wby0nder said:
So how windy was it?

And yea, great photo! Bales may be round but they aren't perfectly round. I've tried to move them and it's usually impossible. IF they are really tight, fresh, round, and on smooth hard ground MAYBE...

That sounded kinda, uh, strange...

Talking about hay bales here folks. Move along.
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My take-away from this thread: Matt has tried to push a round bale and felt obliged to weigh in on the viability of such a hypothesis.

I'm an unashamed Midwesterner, but that makes me smile for some reason.
 
Those two bales at the bottom of the picture must have had their transponders turned off, and got no RA's from TCAS.
 
Did any one notice that the bails that rolled started at the top of a shallow rise in the field?

Once rolling, how much wind would it require to keep them rolling?
 
Well I didn't see too many gliders in the field to stop them :D
 
Erik1010 said:
I feel bad for the farmer whom has to fetch all those runway bails.
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The good news is he does not have to chase them very far! :rofl:

Seriously, it did cause a lot of damage to the existing crop. Once it is laying down like that it is going to be very difficult to cut it.
 
N801BH said:
What is the crop?? Alfalfa?
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Sure looks like it. I don't think grass would lay that flat. Once it is laid over like that it breaks the stems and it just lays there. Very tough to get the cutting head under it and it lays funny coming out of the conditioners. That is how it works with my eqipment anyway. I'm sure he can salvage it, but it is going to take a ton of time.

This may be an insurance adjuster photo? Certainly wind damage.
 
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Geico266 said:
The good news is he does not have to chase them very far! :rofl:

Seriously, it did cause a lot of damage to the existing crop. Once it is laying down like that it is going to be very difficult to cut it.
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With the floating head equipment there won't be any problems.
 
I've pushed bales, but they were of well dried grass. Green hay would be heavier. The farmers around here sometimes leave straw bales (straw is the leavings of a combine after wheat harvest, baled and used for cattle bedding in feedlots) in line with and close to the runway and I go out and roll them out of the way. They could surprise some night-landing pilot if he was a bit low.

Dan
 
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