1997 - Volume #21, Issue #4, Page #13
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"Sidearm" Bale Hauler Picks Up From Side
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"You can run right behind the baler be-cause you pick up bales from the same direction they come out of the baler," notes Greg Cook of Circle "C" Equipment, Hermiston, Ore. "Plus, you don't run across as many pivot tracks in irrigated fields."
The American Eagle loader-stacker system is designed to install on most any truck you choose and includes an additional torsion bar suspension to support loading bales from the side. It handles eight 4 by 4 by 8-ft., ten 4 by 3 by 8-ft. or fifteen 3 by 3 by 8-ft. bales.
The heart of the system is a robotic pickup arm built of 8-in. sq. tubing. It has a moving bale clamp fitted with an outer row of 15-in. long forks and an inner row of 8-in. long forks that hook into the top of the bale as the truck drives alongside. Once snared, the arm raises the bale up 8 ft. and rotates it 1/4 turn. Then it lowers the bale onto the truck bed, which is built from 2 by 10-in. rails.
When bales are stacked two high (three in the case of 3 by 3 by 8-ft. bales), a sweep bar in front pushes them back 6 ft. on the bed. The process is repeated until the bed is loaded. To stack bales, the bed tilts up 90? and a push bar pushes bales off the rear forks and tightly against the stack.
"You can load bales at up to 5 mph and transport them as fast as the truck will go or bales.
as fast as field or road conditions permit," says Cook. "It picks up and stacks 60 to 90 tons of hay per hour."
The system is powered by a 6 cu. in. Vickers hydraulic pump.
Sells for $55,000 to $60,000, excluding truck. Options include a front-end attachment, retrieval add-on and slip tank. Installation takes about two weeks.
Contact: Circle "C" Equipment LLC, Rt. 1, Box 1961, Hermiston, Ore. 97838 (ph 541 567-2992).
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