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Bed-Mounted Bale Stabber
“We stack our round bales in rows and use a parallel squeeze bale bed, mounted on a flatbed truck, to pick up the bales and feed them to our cattle. The bale bed comes with a pair of steel arms fitted with metal spinners that grab both ends of the bale,” says Matthew Hempel, Eldridge, Mo.
“However, sometime
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Bed-Mounted Bale Stabber BALE HANDLING “We stack our round bales in rows and use a parallel squeeze bale bed mounted on a flatbed truck to pick up the bales and feed them to our cattle The bale bed comes with a pair of steel arms fitted with metal spinners that grab both ends of the bale ” says Matthew Hempel Eldridge Mo “However sometimes the bales are placed so close together that there isn’t room to grab the bale To solve the problem I attached a 39-in long bale spear to one of the arms I cut a hole in the spinner’s mounting bracket and inserted the spear through it then welded on a block of steel to reinforce the spear It works great to stab the bale and eliminates the need for a tractor ” Contact: FARM SHOW Followup Matthew Hempel Semper Fidelis Ranch 1349 Hempel Rd Eldridge Mo 65463 ph 417 664-8392; hempelranch@gmail com
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