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We do. Set a large round bale in the front of the wheels on each side (using the bale stabber on the back of a tractor) Then we set one on the very back and push it ahead with another bale to even out the load and take off some of the tongue weight. Two bales on front of the axles, one centered on the axle and one on the back of the trailer. It works great but you have to have a tractor with a loader/stabber to unload the back one that gets pushed ahead. Dunno what the tongue weight is, but it is quite a bit.Who puts hay on a tandem axle car-style trailer? He called it a wagon, and every hay wagon I've seen around here (remember, we have a few farms here in IL) has been the dual spread axle wagons.
I don't see how you could bend a thing with a hay barge (axle at each end) unless under panic braking, the only weight your truck would see is half the weight of the tounge itself... maybe 100# max. If he even thought he had 1k# of tongue weight, it wasn't a barge.
Hardly see barges anymore around here, most people use the fancy big bale carriers that hold 4 or 6 round bales on the bottom and as many as you feel safe stacking on top of that (6 bale unit shown in attached link) Small square bales are pretty much a thing of the past here, a couple guys make the big square bales but the large round bale is king.
http://www.gnusemfg.com/bales.html
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