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Location: Western WA | I bought a trailer with a hayrack on top, probably wouldn't have ordered it because I honestly don't know what I would put up there or how I would get it up there. So just curious what everybody uses their hayracks for. Looking for a use for it I haven't thought of yet. |
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Location: south of Cowtown, TEXAS | Too bad you don't live closer, I'd buy it from you!
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bagged shavings
generator
gas tanks
water tank
bags of feed
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Location: Central Point, OR | I would be lost without my hay rack! We have a 35 gallon water tank with a hose coming down the side for horse water. We also haul a large rubbermaid tote up there to put all the misc. in and our free-standing (BLM approved) fire pit so we can have a campfire wherever we go. Just wait.... you will be glad it is there! |
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Location: Western WA | This is the really stupid part of my question. How do you get heavy stuff like hay bales up there?
Originally written by Dawnya on 2006-02-03 6:23 PM
BR>Hay
bagged shavings
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Location: Missouri | There is actually a new product out on the market called LOAD-UP that attaches an arm to your trailer and lifts things like hay bales, trunks, generators, etc....onto the hayrack. It even has a remote control option...I don't have one, but it looks like a good idea for those of us who have trouble lifting. I believe they have a website: www.loadup.com
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Location: Hagerstown, MD | Ummmmmmmm, let me think.....boyfriend, husband, significant other, trail partner and so on. As for my wife, she says, "load the trailer." That's how she gets the stuff she wants in and on the trailer. Happy trails. |
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Location: Denver Colorado | Load-up was as the National Western last month on a new Hart. I'll do a review soon. I have a couple of pictures at http://www.haylist.com/ I like the remote control. Saddlematic daybued at the National Western too on a new Hart trailer. Pictures at http://www.mrtrailer.com/saddlematic.htm hopefully they will both be at the Rocky Mountain Horse Expo in March in Denver. |
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Location: Hagerstown, MD | I hope my wife never finds out there is a remote control option for her trailer loader.  |
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Location: novinger, mo | Front end loader is good. Or I suppose you could buy a small hay elevator.
I also have a concrete retaining wall by the side of the house that I can back right up to that is almost the height of the hay rack. My new trailer does not have the hayrack so I need to get a new one. Any suggestions where to buy aside from the dealer? I have a Bison 10'LQ with slide out.
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Location: south of Cowtown, TEXAS | Originally written by headhunter on 2006-02-04 9:36 AM This is the really stupid part of my question. How do you get heavy stuff like hay bales up there? Hubby's got some big guns.
He throws them up there for me.
If he's not around, myself and a friend drove her truck up next to the side of the trailer, standing on the top / side of the truck bed and wrangled them up!
I'm sure passers-by loved watching that circus. |
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Location: South Central OK | That's where you put pleasure carts. Just stand them up next to the trailer and pull them up and the wheels roll up the side of the trailer! Having had to load the rack by myself as a youth I can tell you I'll NEVER get back on another roof with hay. One poor step and it's poor you off to the hospital! Roofs are slippery and you will tend to waste hay once you've unloaded because you won't want to put it back up there after you're beat and tired. When you get home you'll leave it up there and it'll rot and stain your trailer. I lost my balance twice when on a trailer roof. Once I jumped into a tree once I knew I was going off. The other I wasn't so lucky. The good part was I had been taught how to fall off a horse and not die so the training came in handy. They say people are like their horses. I ride hunters and we all know they have a few screws loose! |
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Location: Oregon | Originally written by deranger on 2006-02-04 12:53 PM
Ummmmmmmm, let me think.....boyfriend, husband, significant other, trail partner and so on. As for my wife, she says, "load the trailer." That's how she gets the stuff she wants in and on the trailer. Happy trails. That's what I do. I have a water tank up there and haul hay. But if I really had to load it by myself This is what I do: I load the hay in the back of my pick up and back my truck up to my ladder. I take a motorcycle tie downs (or rope) and loop them through both strings of bailing twine. I get up in my hay rack and pull the bales up against my ladder (saves the side of the trailer from getting scratched up). Our bales are pretty light (40-75 lbs), depending on if it's hay or alfalfa. |
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Location: Western WA | You have all given me great ideas, especially using a front end loader to get stuff up. I would not have thought of that. Nor would I have thought of putting a generator up there.
Thanks!
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Location: west valley city , utah | I use two long wood planks leaning on the hay rack from the ground . I put my hay between the planks , and then use a rope to pull them up . You could also use some old pipe . The longer the pipes or planks I think it makes it easier to pull heavy items . |
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Location: DeWitt, AR | As for stepping on the dangerous slippery trailer roof, hubby put a piece of plywood covered with indoor outdoor carpeting down on the hayrack so he wouldn't step on the roof when he loaded the hay. Our generator and horse water tank is up there too. We (okay, he) loads the rack using our front end loader. Couldn't live without it and couldn't imagiine actually putting a horse in our stud stall, that's the feed room, boot room, storage room, mud room! |
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Location: St. Paul, MN | Good questions on what to do with hayrack and good ideas I added to my uses. I have water tank on mine and of course haul hay. I also put a aluminum saddle rack up there and strapped down with bungies so when I get to camp and might want to work on a saddle or let it dry in sun a big I have it available. I am in the 50 something age group and load haybales by myself by using a sturdy regular ladder next to the ladder on my trailer. This method allows me to balance better and I can rest the bale on the regular ladder as I get to the top which makes it easier to toss it ofer rack. I do think the loaders being discussed sound interesting. I just worry about stress points on trailer. Looking forward to hearing more. |
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Location: Ohio | We mainly carry camping equipment on ours now. In the past we loaded it down with hay, water tank, and whatever else would fit, but that ended up overloaded our rear axle and costing a good bit to fix so we try to keep only light weight bulky items up there now. They do come in very handy though, you won't be sorry for having it. |
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| I saw a HUGE clamshell type one on a trailer in Amarillo last week.
Not sure, but I think it was a Platinum trailer - Canadian folk IIRC.
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Location: Oregon | Originally written by Reg on 2006-02-14 7:20 PM
I saw a HUGE clamshell type one on a trailer in Amarillo last week. Not sure, but I think it was a Platinum trailer - Canadian folk IIRC. We have a lot of those types here in Oregon, mainly because of all the rain we get. But, they are heavy and add a lot of weight to your trailer. A tarp does me just fine. With the "open" ones it is easier to get in there and move stuff around since you can stand up. It would seem it would be harder to clean out a "clam shell" type. |
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Location: North Salem, IN | Where can you buy a hayrack? I would like to add one to my trailer. Or would it just be easier to make one? 
Edited by Zipitude 2006-02-16 11:48 PM
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Location: Northern Utah | Check with your trailer dealer. Most of the dealers around here that are competant to do trailer repairs offer racks as add-ons. |
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Location: Merrillville, Indiana | You also might try the Bale Buddie. I haven't used one yet, but do have one ordered. Looks very easy to use. I'm to old to get anything heavy up there. Try this web site http://www.balebuddie.com/
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Location: Home of Wild Turkey Whiskey | That Bale Buddy looks like the real deal, no electrical, no trying to find a place to store it. Pretty slick, I've been working on crane types that will go in the hay rack and fold down when not in use, but this thing for under 4 bills I'll order one just to see how it works. |
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Location: Kingston, Ontario | I think that you can order racks from www.coolhorse.comI would love to have one, but it would be a problem for me to get stuff up there..It would be a great if you needed to haul your own bedding to the shows. (ie: plasic covered shavings.. ) |
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Location: Oregon | I have a roof rack and I have a tractor with a loader to get everything up there. When I get to camp, how do I get it down? I could throw the bales, but they would most likely break, how about the camping gear? Thanks for the great topic! |
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Location: Florida | Is the roof reinforced when putting on roof rack or do you just have it put up there? |
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Location: Southern New Mexico | The one we used to have didn't touch the roof. The supports were welded to the posts on the side of the trailer. |
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