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21 hours ago, kickstart said:

About 250 bales of rice straw, bound for dairy cattle feed, central Lopburi .

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Would like to see this vehicle when it's too much wind..:cheesy:

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On 7/7/2018 at 6:03 PM, Assurancetourix said:

Would like to see this vehicle when it's too much wind..:cheesy:

On a technical side the 250 bales @ about 18 kg a bale is about 4.5 tons, the rear axle, leaf springs, and rear shock absorbers . are from a 6 wheel truck.

We have a lot of these pick up hauling rice straw in this area, never seen one blow over..........yet.

Posted (edited)
1 hour ago, kickstart said:

This outfit has 440 bales on, and come about  100 km away.

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I can't imagine how much that load would weigh if it got rained on during the journey ?

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In summer 1976 , in France , we had a very big drought , especially in Brittany .

I was a trucker and drived a semi trailor ( 38 tons ) every week to Italy.

But during three months my boss asked me to work for the farmers who had nothing to give for their animals.

Every day with many other truckers we did many km with balls of straw on our trailors;

I used to have 14 row of balls on my trailor which was each time 5,7 m high = 18,7 feet :cheesy: ;

yes a very high truck;

why 18,7 feet ?

because the electric lines, in France are at minimum  6 m high = 19,6 feet so we can pass under them if they cross the roads.

the load on the trailor was approx 11 tons .

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On 7/11/2018 at 2:45 PM, Golden Triangle said:

I can't imagine how much that load would weigh if it got rained on during the journey ?

Good question, they use plastic sheets to cover the loads, in very heavy rain they will stop somewhere,

If the straw gets wet and is stacked into the barn  It will heat up and, and you will get mold and fungi, making the straw smell, cattle will not eat it so readily.  

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3 hours ago, ExpatOilWorker said:

An older LPG Mercedes. If you look closely you can see it has rear window defroster, bit silly for Thailand.

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I have also, on my pickup Isuzu, a rear window defroster but impossible to have warm ventilation..

It's Thailand...

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3 hours ago, ExpatOilWorker said:

An older LPG Mercedes. If you look closely you can see it has rear window defroster, bit silly for Thailand.

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Yes, it was the rear window defroster that first drew my attention.

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On 7/11/2018 at 2:19 PM, Rhys said:

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i didnt have time i "went off" before i could lock

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On 7/20/2018 at 1:20 PM, ExpatOilWorker said:

If you look closely you can see it has rear window defroster, bit silly for Thailand.

I have one on my "Toyota Soluna"  however I think I'd prefer the other accessory !

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