moving round bales with this?

   / moving round bales with this? #11  
I rigged this 3ph bale/pallet mover from some old bale spears and some scrap metal. I had it welded up and it works great to move both pallets and bales. My total cost was around $25. Not pretty but it works great. I now have bale spear which attaches to my front loader but I used to simply push the round bales off my hay wagon and move them for storage.


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Here is a photo of one of my hay wagons with a few 5 foot rounds.
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   / moving round bales with this?
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You must be moving 1200lb round bales? If so, I'll think you'll find that the width required on rear forks to cradle the bale won't fit into a pallet. So a fixed pallet mover is out. I don't see any value in a rear pallet mover (except the one like Paul posted) as you can't get anything off of a truck or trailer anyway. What are the specs of your setup? I looked around TBN and found some posts saying about 1056lbs. for the L480. I found your 3pt. capacity listed as 3000lbs., but I'm not sure how accurate that is as the same set of specs listed your machine weight at nearly the same...

If I were you, I would get a 3pt. bale spear and forget about moving pallets...

As for as getting off the trailor, The last bails I bought was loaded on my trailor by a 30 something horse 2wd tractor useing a rear 3 point spear. Its the same trailor my kubota rides on. Don't have to drive up ramps to unload though. They are easy to push off. Thanks for the info on my tractors specs they sound about right. I am running a couple of hundred pounds more that factory specs on the relief valve. It does make a big differance. Don't know about the weight of the bails. Most around here are sold by the bale not weight. There stored outside so I'm sure they weight in a lot more when the weather is wet. I will most likely get a larger farm type tractor later. I'm keeping the little 'bota though. It is real nice for small jobs. Used it today to move a ac unit on top of a 8' platform and for parking lot repairs at another place.
 
   / moving round bales with this? #13  
I know you can push bales off a trailer, what I meant was trying to use something to move bales that would also work for pallets, i.e. you won't be able to unload a truck or trailer with palleted feed from your 3pt.. I'm really thinking of safety here, too. You will be stable with a big round bale on your 3pt., but reall iffy with it on your FEL, esp. when you get tempted to lift them up to stack them, drop them over rings, etc.. Rear bale spears work great, no messing around, and they're inexpensive. You back into the bale, lift and go. As far as not having ramps, if you work off of trailers a lot, put your FEL to work and build a farm ramp (dirt ramp to trailer height).

I'd like a smaller tractor, too. I can see it in my future...(as soon as I convince her of how much she can do with it ;))
 
   / moving round bales with this? #14  
dirt cloud, as to the weight of the bales, do know there can be wide variance in the size of round bales. If pricing over the phone ask the size and take that into consideration on the price.
 
 

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