Bale-Handling Pickup Sports Bale Spear, Bumper-Mounted Unroller

Bale-Handling Pickup Sports Bale Spear,Bumper-Mounted Unroller HAY & FORAGE HARVESTING Bale Handling (5) 18-5-10 "It lets me transport round bales with my pickup and unroll them from the comfort of the cab," says Harry Sehn, Richmound, Sask., who mounted a 2-wheeled bumper-mounted unroller on front of his GM 3/ 4-ton 4-WD pickup which is equipped with a bale spear on back. Sehn mounted a pair of 4 by 8-in. rubber wheels (caster wheels off an old sprayer) about 10 in. apart on a frame attached to the front of the pickup. Sehn also made the bale spear on back of the pickup. An electric winch at the front of the pickup box raises and lowers the bale spear. To unroll a bale, he just drops it on the ground and then bumps it with the front end of the pickup. "The wheels rotate in the opposite direction that the bale unrolls and start turning as soon as they contact the bale. Without the wheels in front, the pickup would try to climb up on top of bale. If the bale is on a downward slope I can sometimes unroll the entire bale with only one bump of the wheels. I can unroll bales at speeds up to 10 mph if I want. One advantage of unrolling bales with the wheels is that they never unroll too much hay in one place. They leave about a 6-in. layer on the ground." Sehn used part of an old hay sweep to build the frame for the bale spear and mounted a pair of 2 3/8-in. dia. steel spikes on it. The frame is hinged at the bottom and is pinned to a pair of clevises that bolt onto the pickup bumper. The winch is hooked up to the pickup battery and is controlled by a switch inside the pickup cab. Contact: FARM SHOW Followup, Harry Sehn, Box 143, Richmound, Sask., Canada SON 2E0 (ph 306 669-2142).

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