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  • January 6, 2008 at 3:13 pm #39382
    Rod
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    The other (cold) day my tractor would not start. It’s the only way I have to move my round bales to my cattle and I had 40 hungry animals waiting. Got me to thinking about a round bale mover which I could power with my oxen. (I got the tractor running because the day warmed up, fortunately).

    Anyway after searching the net for designs and ideas I came up with this one which I am going to try.
    Since all my bales are nice and rounded out and covered with plastic wrap my design utilizes them for the wheel part. The rest is simple and very similar to a drag behind bale unroller. It’s planned as a frame yoke with drive in pins on the ends. In service it works like this. I take the frame and center the pin holes on the bale center, drive the pins in with a hammer and hook the pole attached to the bale yoke to my team and roll away. It will roll on the bale which will still have the cover on it. When I get to the feeding spot, pull the pins, remove the plastic wrap and drag the yoke back to the barn. A variation which I am thinking about is a pair of skids under the yoke which will help position it for the pinning of the bale and serve as a sled when returning with the yoke part.

    Has anyone tried anything like this and if any suggestions before I start building it.

    January 10, 2008 at 1:03 pm #45231
    Rod
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    Thanks, that is something I can try before going to the trouble of making something.

    January 10, 2008 at 6:39 pm #45235
    Howie
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    I built the hay rack, Grabers built the bale mover, and the steers furnish the power. The group does great and there is very little waste. Hay or energy.

    January 26, 2008 at 10:51 pm #45236
    Plowboy
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    If the bales aren’t frozen down a stone boat works well. It doesn’t take much to tip a 500#bale onto a boat drag to destination and then tip off. My 84 yr old buddy brings them home from haying 3 at a time with a team of Haflingers this way. In the winter he used to skid them in the barn with his Haflinger stallion and a chain with a ring on one end. If you want low tech, low expense, a boat should work with oxen and in a pinch the chain method will work as long as you don’t have to drag them through mud.

    January 27, 2008 at 2:06 am #45238
    Up North Louie
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    We built a kind of tumblebug that hooks to the 3-point and will even unroll them for you. No reason it couldn’t be pulled with a team. Would you like a couple pictures?

    Don

    January 27, 2008 at 2:21 am #45232
    Rod
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    I would like to see some pictures thanks.

    January 27, 2008 at 2:43 am #45239
    Up North Louie
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    I’ll get a few in the next day or so. Pretty dark for that just now.

    It’s pretty straightforward, though. 2″ square tube stock welded at right angles to form a squared-off “U” shape. Two legs with holes drilled through at the tips, and in the middle of the cross piece are little dog legs the width of a CAT 1 hitch and center to those a leg to accept the top link. The holes at the end of the legs accept pins that drive into the core of the bale. The hardest part is to “read” the bale to see which way it wants to unroll.

    I could probably modify this one to hook to an evener in about 15 minutes. In fact, all I would need is a hole. I have a pole and eveners that detach from a hay wagon so you could even go down hill with it. I will give that a try 🙂

    I’ve never pulled anything behind a yoked team, so I wouldn’t know what that would require.

    d

    January 29, 2008 at 3:28 pm #45240
    Up North Louie
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    I figured I had better get these photos taken and up before the weather tanks on me later in the day.

    That’s a standard 48 inch pallet. The spikes on the rear of the arms move in and out.

    front
    tumblebug_front.jpg

    side
    tumblebug_side.jpg

    back
    tumblebug_back.jpg

    I’m wondering if I can’t just flip the thing over to hook to my evener and pole, using the bracket that accepts the top link. I’ll give it a try soon and let you know how it goes.

    Don

    June 16, 2008 at 12:50 pm #45242
    Neil Dimmock
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    June 19, 2008 at 9:37 pm #45248
    Ronnie Tucker
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    @Neil Dimmock 1872 wrote:

    grader004.jpg

    I would like to get more details and pictures about your bale mover. I am interested in building one.

    -Ronnie Tucker
    Paris, Tennessee

    June 19, 2008 at 10:31 pm #45241
    Marchand
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    @Ronnie Tucker 1903 wrote:

    I would like to get more details and pictures about your bale mover. I am interested in building one.

    -Ronnie Tucker
    Paris, Tennessee

    Naw…naw…Neil’s Kand-nian…some-body’ll??…just haveta’ pick it out of him…

    June 21, 2008 at 12:25 am #45245
    Neil Dimmock
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    @Marchand 1904 wrote:

    Naw…naw…Neil’s Kand-nian…some-body’ll??…just haveta’ pick it out of him…

    This that Like an( Uhmareekan ) and the whole world knows what to do with a Kan!!:D

    June 21, 2008 at 12:27 am #45246
    Neil Dimmock
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    Hi Ronnie I’ll try and post the plans as soon As I find them, this one I like because you can take it off wagon and put it on a sleigh
    Neil

    June 21, 2008 at 12:37 am #45247
    Neil Dimmock
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    Heres a few pics ,
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    June 22, 2008 at 7:39 pm #45250
    Ronnie Tucker
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    will your bale mover carry one roll on the wagon and one on the arms it appears that it might do that also can you unroll the bales if you want to ronnie tucker tn

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