[Lesley Silvester]

the big bales are easy to move around, not like haylage.

How do you move them? I have no idea how heavy they are. If I could get one delivered, would it be possible for one man to move it into the garage and onto a pallet?

[shygirl]

we get ours delivered and the driver rolls them off the lorry and me and my son just roll them into the garage. straw isnt too heavy, hay is more so, and haylage is impossible to shift. as we dont have a tractor we use the horse trailer for shifting the big round bales of hay or straw down the road for the cattle.
aslong as it isnt wet its moveable.

[sokel]

As long as it's clean and dry I find the big bales of straw easy to move. I can roll them up the ramp into the horse box without any problems on my own

[Lesley Silvester]

OH should be able to move one then. I just need to see if my farmer can deliver one. Can't fit more than that in the garage as the trailer is in there.

[ballingall]

I can roll a bale of straw up our drive, into the shed and tip it onto a pallet on my own MGoM, so I think he should manage. Hay is heavier, and depending on how heavy a bale is, I may need help for tipping onto a pallet part.


Beth

[Anke]

Just watch that once the straw is getting loose as you remove the tight wrapping it becomes a magnet for rats...

[Lesley Silvester]

Even if there is no food in there?

[SallyintNorth]

Straw is food

[Anke]

Even if there is no food in there?

Yes, happened in our polytunnel over winter, and I am still "feeding" the red wheat to the rats in there... they just chew another hole into the side of the tunnel, so nothing I can do just try and poison them all... oh and the straw bale isn't in there anymore.

[Lesley Silvester]

Ok bale of straw and box of rat poison goes in the garage. Thanks for the warning.