Hay/Bale Spear

• 2-prong hay spear

Tim

Tim

They really don't work so well for 'other things' - if you ever bend something, the bales won't stick or unstick as well any more.

They are more rare, so finding one on the cheap will be difficult. Building your own as someone mentioned would be the way to do it cheaper.

--->Paul

I had a hired man one time that built me the sweetest bale handler I've ever seen.

We had a Farmhand F-11 with the small head and grapple that we used solely for big round bales.

He unbolted the darned grapple assembly from the head, drug it aound behind the shop and in it's place built a 2x2" box steel vertical square frame.

Dead in the center, and still using the 2x2" box steel, he mounted a short upright with a 4 foot "finger" hinged to it at the top, out over the bale and worked by a common 3x8" cylinder mounted to the backside of that upright.

Out at the outer end of that 4 foot long 2x2" "finger", he wallowed out a hole and welded in a sharpened 1' length of an old 1" axle shaft as a "stinger" pointing down.

Long story short, by using the loader bucket's teeth at the bottom and that "finger" actuated by the hydraulic cylinder, it was just like reaching over and picking up that bale with your thumb and middle finger. It worked sooooo nice!

Shucks! Now, I gotta go out in the shop and build another one of those darned things, just to show you how it worked! :>)

Allan

I've just never understood the line of thinking that we have to have a "spear" to handle bales.

Why don't you just get a grapple for your loader and be done with it?

Allan

Dug

I have no idea, 'cause I'm not a JD guy.

But, my used material head, dirt pan, grapple & cylinder set me back $500. The nice part is that it will handle just about anything under the sun 'cept water.

I dunno,

Allan

(Also) "I'm not a JD guy, 'cause I have no idea".

Either version explains volumes..... .(teee heeee) John

Dug

I'm not a bit color blind. :>) I like 'em all.

But, I still say this old F-25 is just about the duck's "quack" when it comes to loaders. Look where that weight is; back on the rear of the tractor where it belongs. I gotta find me one of these things!

Allan