Front And Rear-Mounted Bale Spears

Front And Rear-Mounted Bale Spears HAY & FORAGE HARVESTING Miscellaneous 21-4-11 Coy Cleveland, Paradise, Texas, wanted to be able to haul two round bales at a time with his Ford 5610 row crop tractor. However, he didn't want to mount a loader on the tractor, and he wanted to keep the 3-pt. "mesquite grubber" already mounted on back of his tractor so that he could get rid of mesquite trees whenever he wanted without having to switch back and forth between the grubber and bale spear. He solved the problem by mounting a bale spear right onto the tree grubber and making his own hydraulically-operated front-mounted spear. "It works great and didn't cost much to build. I spent about $100 on the rear-mounted spear and $250 on the front-mounted spear," he says. The front-mounted spear mounts on a steel frame that's hinged to a 4-in. dia. steel pipe. A hydraulic cylinder that's connected to the frame is used to raise or lower the bale. Cleve-land used lengths of 2-in. dia. steel pipe to make the main spears on both front and rear and sharpened the ends down to a point. He used 1-in. dia. steel rod to make two sets of small spears (one at each end of the tractor) that help keep the bale from rolling. The two small spears on back are welded right to the bottom of the grubber. "If I did it again I'd mount a bracket on the spears so that I could bolt them on," he says. Contact: FARM SHOW Followup, Coy G. Cleveland, RR 1, Box 66, Paradise, Texas 76073.

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