[Cryptogamix]

Anyone tried this? I mean a trailer with a regular ball joint, so you can hitch up to a truck and drive it away...

Cheers
Joe

[Rupert the bear]

Do I understand correctly, towing two trailers then ?

[mab]

Err.. I'm not sure what you’re wanting to do: do you mean towing the trailer behind the bailer whilst bailing so it catches the bales?


Or do you mean on the road, with the tractor(?) pulling the bailer and the road trailer behind that?


Either way i havent done it (although i have seen a bale sledge towed behind a bailer, and i seem to recall a travelling fair vehicles towing two trailers (truck, trailer, caravan - but that was about 3 decades ago and i don't know the rules on road-trains in this country)).

[PipKelpy]

In December 1999 I was in New Zealand and brother-in-law needed to move his hay making equipment from one property to another 5 miles away. Roads are wider and faster where he lived. Asked if I was game to help. He drove tractor with baler on back and hay bob suspended on front arms. I drove his truck, mower on the flatbed and wrapper on tow hitch!

"Oh sh*t etc" I mumbled to myself every time I had to go round corners or the big lorries passed us!

But this was NZ over 20 yrs ago, maybe farmers don't do things like that anymore!

[Rupert the bear]

In December 1999 I was in New Zealand and brother-in-law needed to move his hay making equipment from one property to another 5 miles away. Roads are wider and faster where he lived. Asked if I was game to help. He drove tractor with baler on back and hay bob suspended on front arms. I drove his truck, mower on the flatbed and wrapper on tow hitch!

"Oh sh*t etc" I mumbled to myself every time I had to go round corners or the big lorries passed us!

But this was NZ over 20 yrs ago, maybe farmers don't do things like that anymore!

My only motoring conviction ( so far ) , 16 years old helping on the farm , two loaded trailers of hay behind the Major on the A272 at Midhurst from field to the yard some half mile away. I was stopped by PC Vic Denyer and reported . for driving licence offence and construction and use offences. I was told to continue on to the yard and in future take one trailer at a time.
A month later a summons arrives to appear at the magistrates court , I pled guilty and got a five pound fine and "words of advice" , John the farm manager paid my fine but took it out of my pay over the summer holidays.
Things sure were different fifty odd years ago.

[harmony]

I have seen livestock wagons with a caravan behind at shows. And of course wagons travel with a trailer behind and I've seen double arrangements with skips. The commercial wagons of course have more wheels and braking systems.


The OP hasn't been back on to comment and their post and title aren't quite the same so maybe it was a wind up.......

[Buttermilk]

I think that the op meant a double articulated vehicle - tractor/baler/trailer. 

[stufe35]

Anyone tried this? I mean a trailer with a regular ball joint, so you can hitch up to a truck and drive it away...

Cheers
Joe

Yes it works no problem. Similar to this https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JVDmQ5JLTpI