Looking to buy a small payloader. 12 to 14 thousand lbs. Want to be able to load on my gooseneck trailer and haul to hay fields and load round bales. Have a skidsteer but is small and keep taking out the hydraulic input shaft . What should I look for? Do not want a new one just something I can work on.

Bigger skidloader? When I hauled hay most large farms had a larger payloader with grappels that could take two round bales at a time. Most said it was cheaper in the long run to have larger machines as used ones where more cost effective to buy and the maintenance was cheaper since they didn't work as hard as smaller machines.

You must have more use for a payloader then juat hay? it sounds like something i'd do and thatt's not the way to go

Lots of guys use tractors, skid steers for about everything I wanted a skid steer myself but after using it and moving dirt piles around it would be hard to justify the price of it. Maybe you could rent something if the jobs not that big of one.

My neighbor has a skid steer so he’s available we exchange chores often but if it’s a bigger job I just pay him he has expenses with the thing. I look at some farm sales or auctions if your dead set on a pay loader.

Forks(or one middle fork/spear) on a tractor bucket is how many do it around here.Spear the bail with the forks and load away.

If you had ever hauled a payloader on a gooseneck trailer, you wouldnt have asked this question.

Why not a tractor with front loader ?? Its way more useful than a payloader and those things are heavy compared what they can actually lift and would probably not be good to drive around in a hay field if the ground is not hard as concrete. Or they will leave ruts.

I have a gehl al540, smaller than what you Want but it's a great Machine, can go in wet areas without causing damage.

I have a loader tractor and a small skidsteer. Would buy a bigger skidsteer but would not fit in my barn so am stuck with a 45 horse skidsteer that lifts about 1300 pounds. I am a 1 man show and need to haul equipment to fields and leave loader tractor in hay yard. Small payloader would be nice to clean lots and load hay. Am looking to expand and raise more hay but need to go to netwrap bales so skidder would not lift. Truckers want heaver bales, but skidder would still be used for 8 pack on small squres.

We rented a New Holland W80 for a season a few years back. I was skeptical of how much use we would get out of it since we had a Case 721 loader. The little New Holland impressed me for its size, we lost our 721 for awhile and had to load dump trucks with the W80 and it did great.