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morgan in ar

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I'm doing a lot of work to my regular farm truck, a 98 chevy K3500. It's going to get the rear end overhauled, intake gaskets, exhaust gaskets, turn signal switch, ac compressor, and brake booster. With that truck laid up in the shop, I had to dust off the 68 GMC for farm work. With a new set of blue streak points, it was ready to pull the stock trailer and haul firewood. I was still having to feed with the tractor, and with cows on three places several miles apart, this wasn't ideal. I decided to rig up a spear on the old truck. I cut an old top link in half, and welded some pieces of pipe to the bed to slide the halves into. Then, it was just a matter of bolting on the spear and chaining on a winch. I still may pick up a cheap electric winch for this. It seems like it will work pretty good.
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Spike looks a little high to hit the middle of a bale.

Might want to make something to limit travel, if it pulls over center you are going to have fun getting the bale off.
 
I thought the same thing about the over center
problem. Turns out, with the spike too high, even
if it over centers, there is enough of the bale
below the spike to pull it back down. The tire is
there to keep it from slamming into the bed.
 
I think you will find it hard to spear the bales. The spear will try to tilt up rather than go in the bale. You will find it loads a PU more than you think.
 
Friend of mind did something similar but made a bracket for the bale spear to go into the hitch receiver and used a 12V power pack and cylinder off a hydraulic tailgate to
work the bale spear.
 
It looks a little high. The big spear needs to be down there where the license plate is.
 
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