What do you do when you need a bale hauler....

rockyridgefarm · Dec 2, 2016

...and you have a junk Knight Slinger spreader, and a bunch of plows?

You make a hauler, of course!

Had to build it extra heavy duty, so I don't break it with my John Deere 60... I should be able to haul 6 with the 60, or 8 if my skid steer can reach the top centers. I didn't want to built it this high (46" to the top of the cross beams), but I needed to give the tandems room to do their thing.

WI Dan · Dec 2, 2016

cool! another project!

I bet Allen in NE would like a bale hauler about that size...

rockyridgefarm · Dec 3, 2016

(quoted from post at 09:23:02 12/02/16) cool! another project!

I bet Allen in NE would like a bale hauler about that size...

Best part is, this thing is pretty much free to me. I bought the slinger for a couple hundred bucks as a parts unit to keep my other two units alive. I bought the plows over the years for between $85 and $400 each and stripped them for parts to sell. The tires came off a gravity box that I put bigger tires on. My neighbor is helping me put it together, he's a very good welder, so it's turning out really nice. I'm gonna use it to haul bales down the hill for my cattle this winter to see what i got wrong in building it, then a paint job in the spring. Gotta decide what color to paint it.

My neighbor bought a horribly ugly one at Hennessey's last sale. Only paid a five hundred bucks for it, but it was really boogered together. Looked like it started life as a new holland V-tank spreader, and had random scrap steel chicken poop welded on. I wonder what this one would bring there? I'm guessing it's gonna tip the scales at a ton, so it's worth $90 at the scrap yard, right?

What do you do when you need a bale hauler....

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