New Bale Trailer Designed For Plastic Wrapped Bales

New Bale Trailer Designed for Plastic Wrapped Bales HAY & FORAGE HARVESTING Bale Handling (5) 14-5-21 You can load and haul up to 6 plastic-wrapped bales without danger of puncturing the plastic with the new "Bale Shift a" trailer designed by a British farmer. The bale hauler has a open-ended cradle on each side that pivots down with the open end toward the ground and slips around both sides of the bale. Each side holds three bales. To unload, bales are lowered to the ground and the tractor is driven forward. "Until now the only way to move wrapped bales without puncturing the plastic was with special front-end loader attachments. This trailer lets one man load and transport bales with just one tractor," says a representative of the manufacturer, Volac, Ltd., noting that the trailer works also works great for unwrapped bales. Sells for about $10,000. Contact FARM SHOW Followup, Volac, Ltd., Orwell, Royston, Hertfordshire SG8 5QX (ph 0223 208021; tax U223 2U/629).

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