Stack Bales Higher With Nifty “Pusher”

Stack Bales Higher With Nifty “Pusher” BALE HANDLING When his skid steer-mounted bale lifter couldn’t stack big round bales 3 high Daryl Wiegand made a pusher to do the trick The scissor-action push bar slides bales off no matter the angle of the bale lifter spears “We built a shed to store big round bales but when I tried stacking them 3 high with my skid steer the loader arms couldn’t quite reach far enough ” says Wiegand “I couldn’t just set the bale in place and back away ” Previously Wiegand had fabricated the bale lifter spears and their quick attaching frame He made the bale spears out of old school bus axles and used 3 by 3-in square tubing and flat stock for the frame It worked great except for 3-high stacking Fully extended the spears and the bale were at an angle above the second high bales As he would try to drag the angled forks away they and the bale on them would drag down the second high bale Wiegand’s pusher solved the problem It consists of a cross bar attached to short lengths of 2 1/4-in pipes They slide over the 2-in dia bale spears Scissors action legs are pinned to brackets on the pusher bar and to the frame of the spears A cylinder is pinned between the rear legs and the front legs The cylinder’s ram is pinned to brackets a third the distance from the top of the scissor legs attached to the pusher crossbar “When I activate the auxiliary cylinder the crossbar pushes the bale the length of the spears ” says Wiegand Contact: FARM SHOW Followup Daryl Wiegand 14132 159th Trail Drakesville Iowa 52552 ph 641 722-3860 or 641 208-5361; cwiegard@netins net

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