bailing hay question

[PeytonM]

I was wondering what amount of weight a fore cart could handle on the hitch. I’m sure some can take more than others. I would like to bail with my horses this year, my dad has a JD 338. I have more than enough horses to pull it just don’t know if it would be too heavy.

http://muleskinnerhorselogging.com/images/IMG_0429.JPG

This is a pic of Taylor Johnson’s, the cart I’ll have is the same one as he is driving. It has a receiver hitch on it pretty much right under the driver.

thanks

[Donn Hewes]

While some balers do have a pretty heavy tongue weight, that cart is hooking up pretty close between the wheels, it should handle the tongue weight fine. How will you run the PTO? That sounds like a good project. Keep us posted. Donn

[PeytonM]

Well being its a logging arch I was gonna make a little platform and put a motor under where ibsit with a pto then have it so I have to take a few bolts out and my power set up would come out and I could go logging. I dont really know what size motor I would use just yet. I have a old brigs 16.5 hp motor in a lawn mower from around 2000ish, it is in a mtd ranchking there was also a guy on Craig’s list with a Wisconsin motor that had a pto and clutch built in a housing was from the military I guess thought of buying something like that how many hp would a feller need if I got a haybine it would also run that.

Don if the tounge weight was a little heavy is there anything I could do to make it balance out? I should be able to take the horses off the cart and not have the pole go up in the air not?

[Donn Hewes]

Lot’s of people have hooked a cart to a baler without the tongue going up in the air. The only way to say for sure is to hook it on. As for as PTO. I use 24 hp. I am going to guess the 336 will need at least that much. Does this baler have a kicker on it? I am not sure how that will effect the power required. In either case I think the haybine will require less than the baler, certainly the 7′ but the 9′ I would think would run fine on the 24 hp. 16 seems a little small to me. I would hate to put the whole thing together and then find out it was under powered. good Luck. Donn

[PeytonM]

The 336 does have a kicker on it but it does not work, something is wrong with the tripping part of it. haven’t really looked in to all I know is you can hit the lever to trip it and it works, let the bale hit it and it doesn’t, by hitting the lever I mean manually.

I used my 49 farmall H last year baling hay and that seemed to handle it just fine. I was in 2nd or 3 depending on the size of the windrow.

I know that I’ll end up wanting to add more thing to the whole power cart idea but I think if I ever built one with a 3 point on it I would make it a 3 wheel set up

Would you be able to take big rig truck rear end and take the yoke off it and have it have a pto shaft and have that work for a ground cart? have one that has a locking diff I dont know what kind of gears you would need if it would even work. just a thought I had pop in my head cause I’ve been taking trucks apart

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