Haul Big Bales With Your Truck

Haul Big Bales With Your Truck HAY & FORAGE HARVESTING Bale Handling (5) 3-5-2 For less than $100, you can equip your straight truck to haul up to 6 big round bales at a time. Here's how - simply equip the truck bed with special "big bale" extension brackets introduced by Koffler Mfg., New England, N. Dak. The brackets are designed to allow the width of an ordinary truck bed to be extended so that two big round bales can be placed side by side across the width of the bed, and another row of bales on top of those. "You can haul twice as many bales with the extension brackets as you can without them," Nick Koffler, president, told FARM SHOW. "The brackets are designed to fit just about every truck bed on the market. If the standard size doesn't fit, we'll make special brackets." With a standard truck bed, you can haul 6 bales at a time using the brackets. A special strut on the bracket prevents distortion of the stake holes on the truck bed - providing an adequate number ,of brackets are used. A bracket every 4 ft. is recommended. The brackets do not interfere in any way with unloading and there is nothing to hinder the bales from sliding easily off the truck bed when the hoist is raised. "All a farmer has to do is order one extension bracket for each stake hole in this truck bed. He then bolts a 2 x 12 plank onto the extension brackets and he's ready to go." The brackets can be ordered directly from the manufacturer at a cost of $8.90 each. Cost for a truck with 4 stake holes per side would be $71.20 FOB (planks and bolts not included). For more information, contact: FARM SHOW Followup, Nick Koffler, Koffler Mfg. Inc., New England, N. Dak. 58647 (ph 701 579-4235).

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