3-Point Bale Spear

[Rancher Ed]

This is a bale spear I built for our blue tractor last fall so it could be used to feed since we have cows two places and the orange tractor can only be one place at once.

The spear started as a slip over the bucket spear but the loader on the blue tractor will not lift a round bale. What I did was cut off the big spear and two little spears and then welded them to the frame I made. This was my first welding project and some of the welds are very ugly but I am happy how it turned out and it worked fine feeding every three days all winter.

Ed

 

[Bird]

Looks like you did a good job with that.

 

[Rancher Ed]

Thanks Bird. It was a fun first welding project and is usefull also. Right now I am working of a 3-point trailer mover that I should finish soon.

 

[Grayson Klassen]

Wow I byuilt one almost identical to it, I will add a picture of it tonight so you can see. Looks good

originally I made mine to short so I had to add to the vertical to make it work better

Mine was on a Ford 3000 and it made the front end so light I had to add weights to be able to steer without using the brakes.

 

[SandburRanch]

By golly Rancher Ed can get those cows fed now. Good job.:thumbsup:

I see you ask yourself to make a difficult weld (pic #8 round to flat). As time passes you'll figure out a way in design to relieve yourself of that stress. As an amateur welder I could never do those.

 

[Soundguy]

just curious what tractor you have that will lift the bale on the rear but not the laoder.

how do you have the loader plumbed.. tractor hyds or a front pump?

what relief do you have the loader set at.

soundguy

 

[Rancher Ed]

Wow I byuilt one almost identical to it, I will add a picture of it tonight so you can see. Looks good

originally I made mine to short so I had to add to the vertical to make it work better

Mine was on a Ford 3000 and it made the front end so light I had to add weights to be able to steer without using the brakes.

Cool. Seeing what other people build gives me ideas on how to make mine better. Our tractor has a loader so we are able to steer which is a good thing.

By golly Rancher Ed can get those cows fed now. Good job.:thumbsup:

I see you ask yourself to make a difficult weld (pic #8 round to flat). As time passes you'll figure out a way in design to relieve yourself of that stress. As an amateur welder I could never do those.

Thanks. I ground a flat spot on the bottom of the round spears about an 1" wide so it wasn't that bad. What I was having trouble with was getting a nice weld around the corners of the end plates (pic 6) because I had to stop and turn the whole thing. Have any ideas?

just curious what tractor you have that will lift the bale on the rear but not the laoder.

how do you have the loader plumbed.. tractor hyds or a front pump?

what relief do you have the loader set at.

soundguy

It is a early 80s 30hp Mitsubishi D2600. We have the back tires flipped all the way out (73" outside to outside) but is is not a large tractor by any means (53" on the front and it has a 60" loader bucket). The loader is plumbed into the tractors hyds and I have no idea what the relief is set at. I don't have any good pics but here are a couple I have.

 

[Grayson Klassen]

Here is a pic of what I built

as you can see the main spear is 2.25 solid round stock. I had to raise it up because bales would rollover in the first position. I did my lower mounts a little different but very close in design to yours.

 

[Rancher Ed]

Very nice! We already had the spear so that is what I used but that round stock looks like it works very well.

 

[Grayson Klassen]

It did and when ever we blow a shaft at work the old one goes home with me LOL

I made a cultivatir as well that I finished just before I sold the ford and bought the JD..silly me I didn't take any photos of it.