Re: Forks lifted pretty good for home made ones

Posted by paul on November 26, 2004 at 13:24:16 from (66.60.197.232):

In Reply to: Re: Forks lifted pretty good for home made ones posted by Willy-N on November 26, 2004 at 10:24:37:

Yup, good picture. :)

I run my cat 2 bale forks (3000# rated I believe) on the back of my 7700 - 85 hp tractor most of the time. It has fluid in all 4 tires. I run up & down the road ditches, up and down the tarred road with it, picking up the 5x6 round bales. Can't say I ever went 'slow' with it. :) 7th or 8th gear most of the time. Pretty stable outfit, never lost a bale in 4 years..... This fall I moved 27 straw bales, 12 oats clipping bales. Had to go through a fresh plowed furrow with all of them, kinda land-locked myself. Worked at it from 10:00pn until 2am I think. Sure was a lot of jolting for the tractor, fork, & me, but what ya gonna do? I at least slowed down to 6th & pushed the clutch going through the rough spot. ;)

I really don't like the spear. My experience is fresh bales, the twine unravels & the bale falls apart. Old bales & the spear doesn't like to set in so very well.

I got the sissors bale spear this year, it allows me to just stack bales 2 high, or lift onto a rack or trailer. I figured with the sissors in it & the weight that much farther back, I would need to use the TW-20 on it for weight & stability. But, the 7700 worked it just fine. Again, with the fluiid all around, seems to be a pretty stable rig. I do have lots of hills too.

Need to operate with caution of course, and my bigger tractor & cat 2 setup really doesn't have much to do with your deal. :) Just conversing. :)

--->Paul

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• Re: Forks lifted pretty good for home made ones Willy-N 17:03:54 11/26/04 (2)
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    • Re: Forks lifted pretty good for home made ones Willy-N 18:35:18 11/26/04 (0)

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