Loader-Mounted Bale Spear Converted To “Pipe Bucket”

Loader-Mounted Bale Spear Converted To “Pipe Bucket” TRACTORS Loaders “It works like a loader bucket to quickly scoop up rocks or chunks of wood and load them into a trailer or truck The pipe floor allows dirt to fall through ” says Gordon Mariner about the “pipe bucket” he built from the frame of an old Deere 3-pt bale spear The pipe bucket consists of a series of 6-ft long 2-in dia pipes that mount on a home-built frame bolted to both sides of the quick-tach bale spear frame Mariner removed both spears then welded a 2-ft wide steel plate under a length of 8 by 3-in steel tubing He drilled a series of 2-in dia holes in the tubing inserted the pipes in them and then U-bolted them to the plate Channel iron brackets were then welded to both ends of the tubing and bolted to the sides of the bale spear frame Mariner used a 50-ton press to flatten the last 3 in of the pipes making it easy to slide them under the load “It works even better than I expected I already had most of the materials used to build it ” says Mariner who operates a machine fabrication shop “If I want to use the bale spear again I just unbolt the carrier’s brackets and reinsert the spears I came up with the idea because I had to cut up a big pile of logs into 12 to 18-in long pieces and load them onto a trailer for a neighbor who uses the wood to heat his home “One time I used the carrier to dump about 12 000 12-in long by 5-in wide bricks into a big wash-out along our road The bricks came from an old building that I had torn down years ago ” Contact: FARM SHOW Followup Gordon Mariner 1102 Cartwright Cr N Goodlettsville Tenn 37072 ph 615 477-8099; gmar501@aol com

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