He Wouldn't Sell Mystery Bale Mover

He Wouldn't Sell Mystery Bale Mover HAY & FORAGE HARVESTING Bale Handling (5) 18-6-11 "We bought our bale mover for $90 at an auction a few years ago and wouldn't sell it now for any price unless we could find another one just like it," says Buffalo, Mo., farmer Donald Clary, about his "mystery" bale mover . The only problem with finding another one like it is that Clary doesn't know who built the one he has. "It's homemade. You can tell that," he says. "I don't know who designed or built it, but I'd like to shake their hand. It works great." Clary's bale mover is a wishbone shaped trailer with two 14-in tires on stub shaft axles. It's 6-ft. wide by 8-ft. long. and hitches onto pickups, tractors, or cars with a pin hitch in the tongue. A winch mounts in front of the wish-bone on an upright about 30-in. high. A cable with eye hook on the end runs out over the top of the bale. Once the hook is fastened on the far side, the bale is winched onto the trailer. "Bales roll up on it really nice," Clary says. "It's balanced just right so you can roll bales - big ones or little ones - around by yourself." Clary bought the bale mover four years ago and estimates he's moved at least 1,000 bales with it. "We haven't found one - 800, 1,000, 1,200, 1,500, even 1,800 lbs. - it wouldn't move," he says. "We've hauled bales 10 miles with it and we only lost one once. And that was because hay in the bale was too loose." Clary says he wouldn't change a thing about the bale mover - except maybe to find out who built it. Contact: FARM SHOW Followup, Donald D. Clary, HCR # 85, Box 287, Buffalo, Mo. 65622 (ph 417 345-2037).

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