Heavy I-Beam Balel Fork

Heavy I-Beam Balel Fork HAY & FORAGE HARVESTING Bale Handling (5) 20-5-11 Bobby Abernathy, Casa, Ark., built a big I bale fork that hauls two bales at a time and mounts on the 3-pt. of his 65 hp Deere 2555 tractor. He built the fork last year out of a 9-ft. section of I-beam. He welded four shafts to the beam, making gussets out of 1/4-in. thick flat steel to handle the weight of his 5 by 5 grass hay } bales. He made a 3-pt. quick-tach system out 7 of a 2-ft. length of 3-in. dia. pipe and flat iron. "We've moved 500 bales with it and it really works slick," Abernathy says. "It's twice as fast as carrying a single bale on the front-end loader." Contact: FARM SHOW Followup, Bobby Abernathy, Rt. 1, Box 146, Casa, Ark. 72025 (ph 501 233-6395).

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