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Osakis, MN | The bale spears that we use are just Bobcat or John Deere replaceable grapple fork, or manure fork tines. They work excellent and are easy to get replacements if you happen to do something stupid and break one! It happens. I use 4 tines on 3x3x8 bales and carry 3 bales, it works very good. With 3x4x8 I think that 5 would be a little better to handle the extra weight. Ours is made with two seperate upright backs with a 2 foot space between them. If your using one on a skidloader with a door it makes it so much easier to get in and out of the cab if you can walk straight out. For the guys that carry 3x3x8's I would make my next spear so the attachment sat out another 4 or 5 inches from the front of the skidloader for stabbing the middle row of bales off the trailer, sometimes you just can't reach them where the wheels on the skidloader and the trailer meet. The other place it would be handy is when you are loading trucks and have 1 bale on ground in your stack you can reach up and take a couple bales from behind and set them on the single one on the ground easier. This way you don't have to move a single bale off to the side sometimes to grab a full load. Also make the quicktach plate attach at the same approx angle to the ground as your other buckets do, so you can roll the bale fork back enough to keep the bales from leaning forward and tipping off as easy, gets them over center easier when the lift arms are closer to the ground. ( Hope that makes sense) Just what I feel and in no way is this the only way, but as I use ours I sometimes think I would make it just a little easier to use, and slightly safer! Hope this helps in your plans. | |
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Big Square Bale Spears?
