“Mega Splitter” Slices Bales, Retains Net Wrap

“Mega Splitter” Slices Bales Retains Net Wrap BALE HANDLING his new loader-mounted round bale splitter slices through round bales as they’re loaded in mixers “It cuts through bales like a hot knife through butter and holds onto net wrap so that you can release it in a convenient location and keep it out of your grinder The bale falls away from the splitter in loose sections that are easy for a grinder-mixer to handle ” says Ken Sargent Maxilator Equipment LLC Rockmart Georgia “It also works great to unload bales into feed rings alleys and mixer wagons ” The Maxilator Bale Splitter is designed to be used with skid loaders telehandlers or loader tractors It’s equipped with a pair of hinged metal arms at the top supporting a serrated angled blade and a metal bar fitted with spears at the bottom Located between them is a patent pending retractable hook system that grabs onto plastic or net wrap The hooks work off a hydraulic sequence value The operator raises the arms and places the forks under the bale to load it He then pushes the blade down all the way through the bale so that it falls to the ground in layers As the blade comes down the hooks automatically pop out of a metal tube and catch on the plastic or net wrap The operator can then move to a different location and raise the blade all the way up which causes the hooks to retract and automatically release the material “It saves a lot of time spent removing the plastic or net wrap by hand And by spreading the hay out it reduces your feed grinding time by up to 50 percent ” says Sargent “It works equally well with plastic or net wrap and will even remove twine from a bale It works with any size bale because as the bale is loaded it rolls backward and centers itself so that the bale always gets splits in half It’s not designed for corn stalk bales or for big square bales “The unit is equipped with depth-of-cut adjustments in case you don’t want the blade to penetrate all the way through the bale A bright yellow height gauge on back of the unit keeps the operator from raising the blade too high and prematurely releasing the plastic or net wrap ” Suggested list price for the Maxilator Mega Splitter is $7 250 plus S&H Contact: FARM SHOW Followup Maxilator Equipment LLC 51 Rice Road Rockmart Ga 30153 ph 866 429-2253; info@maxilator com; www maxilator com

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