Bale Stacker Built From Old Uni Harvester

Bale Stacker Built From Old Uni Harvester COMBINES Conversions 20-5-9 "Visibility is great. You can put bales right where you want without having to crane your neck," says Leon Reincke about the bale mover he built out of a 1960's 701 New Idea Uni. The "Uni's" were designed to convert from combines to forage choppers to silage choppers. Reincke, of Lake City, Minn., originally bought a New Holland #90 3-pt. mounted bale mover for $500 to use on his 806 International tractor, but then decided using it on his Uni was a better idea. "There was nothing particularly hard about adapting it to the Uni and it makes bale handling a pleasure now rather than a chore," says Reincke. To mount the bale mover on front of the harvester, he made a 12-ft. A-frame out of 4 by 6-in. steel tubing. It bolts to the side of the harvester at the same point the combine unit does. He made mounting brackets on the end of the frame that match attachment points of the harvester's 3 pt. hitch. A brace made of 2-in. sq. tubing runs from the rear of the A-frame up to a clevis Reincke welded to the cross member on the bale mover for extra support. The bale mover operates off two hydraulic pumps on the harvester. One powers the lift cylinder, which raises up to three bales high, and the other powers the bale clamp on top. Reincke, who hauls about 200 1,200-lb. bales produced by his New Holland 851 baler every year, says the idea works great for loading and unloading flatbeds as well as working out of barns and sheds. Besides the $500 he invested in the bale mover, Reincke's out-of-pocket expenses were $150. Contact: FARM SHOW Followup, Leon Reincke, 29050 Wiebusch Hill Road, Lake City, Minn. 55041 (ph 612 345-4661).

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