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Bale Unroller Mounts On Bale Spear
Ed Brouwer couldn’t justify the cost of a commercial round bale unroller, so the Osoyoos, B.C., rancher came up with a low-cost solution by mounting a pair of rear wheels off a garden tractor onto his loader tractor. The wheels are attached to short lengths of pipe, which fit onto a pair of 2-ft. long stabilizer bars o
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Bale Unroller Mounts On Bale Spear BALE HANDLING Ed Brouwer couldn’t justify the cost of a commercial round bale unroller so the Osoyoos B C rancher came up with a low-cost solution by mounting a pair of rear wheels off a garden tractor onto his loader tractor The wheels are attached to short lengths of pipe which fit onto a pair of 2-ft long stabilizer bars on the loader’s bale spear The 16-in high wheels spaced 4 ft apart and about 30 in off the ground spin freely Each wheel is attached to a short steel pipe that slips over the stabilizer bar Brouwer welded a rectangular metal bracket onto the end of each pipe and welded an axle rod across each Once the wheels were in position he drilled a small hole at the outer edge and using a washer and cotter pin locked in the wheels To unroll a bale he just drives forward and pushes the wheels against the bale The bale spear easily clears the top of the bale “It’s a simple low-cost system with almost nothing to go wrong ” says Brouwer who runs a horse rescue and equine retirement center “The biggest advantage is that I can use the bale spear to move bales around and then use the unroller to unroll them If I want to use the tractor to unroll another bale I tilt the bale spear down and back away The wheels just fall off the stabilizer bars ” says Brouwer “It only took about a half hour to build In fact it took longer to paint the unroller than to build it ” Contact: FARM SHOW Followup Ed Brouwer P O Box 914 Osoyoos B C Canada V0H 1V0 ph 250 495-4877; aka-opa@hotmail com
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