Homemade Bale Hauling Trailer
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It doesn't take a lot of money to make a bale hauling trailer. We built this one for a total cost of $142, plus our labor. It'll haul 3 big round bales, or 8 smaller round bales with four on each side. It consists of an axle from an old Ford combine that we fitted with smaller 14-in. rims. We bought the steel frame at an auction for $17. We fished some railroad ties out of the river during high water in the spring and sawed our own 6 by 6 stringers and 2 by 6 boards for the deck at our sawmill. Deck boards are spaced 1 1/2 in. apart. We bolted a 2 by 4 along each edge to tip the bales slightly inward as we have hilly land. A pair of 3 by 3-in. end stakes with two 2 by 6 boards keep bales from rolling off the back. The trailer bed is 18 ft. long, 8 ft. wide. (Grau Brothers, P.O. Box 251, Brownsville, MN 55919)
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Homemade Bale Hauling Trailer HAY & FORAGE HARVESTING Bale Handling (5) 19-4-34 It doesn't take a lot of money to make a bale hauling trailer. We built this one for a total cost of $142, plus our labor. It'll haul 3 big round bales, or 8 smaller round bales with four on each side. It consists of an axle from an old Ford combine that we fitted with smaller 14-in. rims. We bought the steel frame at an auction for $17. We fished some railroad ties out of the river during high water in the spring and sawed our own 6 by 6 stringers and 2 by 6 boards for the deck at our sawmill. Deck boards are spaced 1 1/2 in. apart. We bolted a 2 by 4 along each edge to tip the bales slightly inward as we have hilly land. A pair of 3 by 3-in. end stakes with two 2 by 6 boards keep bales from rolling off the back. The trailer bed is 18 ft. long, 8 ft. wide. (Grau Brothers, P.O. Box 251, Brownsville, MN 55919)
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