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Old Haybines Make Dandy Wood Haulers
Doug Cook has a new use for old mower-conditioners. He turns them into log haulers. When his son purchased land and needed to clear a fence line, Cook turned to FARM SHOW for ideas. He read about a winchless log arch, and then remembered a haybine he had planned to scrap. After stripping everything off the frame, he had 2 1/2-ft. clearance ù plenty to hold logs up off the ground.
  The Spencerville, Ont., man shortened the tongue, replaced the hydraulic cylinder and tires, and added a steel 3 1/2-in. pipe brace across the front.
  "Make it strong," he advises. He slipped a solid shaft inside the hollow pipe to beef it up.
  To transport a log, Cook straddles the frame over it and hooks the front of the log with tongs. Hydraulics lift the log's front end. Cook goes to the back of the machine and wraps one of the 6 choker chains around the log, tightens it up and slips the chain in one of the notches he cut on the top of the haybine. With the log secure, he lowers the front tongs. The chain holds the log up so just the back end of the log rubs on the ground.
  The haybine hauler is strong enough to pull 20-ft. long logs with 18-in. or better diameters ù whatever will fit under the frame. After he moves the logs to where he wants them, the chains unhook easily and Cook is ready for another load.
  "It can't make real sharp turns," he notes, and because it's 8 ft. wide, the haybine hauler isn't the best choice for working in the woods. It worked great for cleaning up the fenceline, however.
  Since completing that project, Cook added a dump box for split wood. It has wheels, a hook on top and its own hydraulic cylinder so he can lift the box for transport and then dump the wood. Cook also added a bale fork to move bales.
  "It's turned into a multi-use machine," Cook says. "There are tons of haybines around not being used. Why not make use of them?"
  Contact: FARM SHOW Followup, Doug Cook, Rt. 4, Prescott, Ont., Canada KOE 1TO (ph 613 658-5553).


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2011 - Volume #35, Issue #1