Asphalt Cowboy
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opinions on roller type bale squeezers for front loader , telehandler. Especially quicke manual.
opinions on roller type bale squeezers for front loader , telehandler. Especially quicke manual.
Nowt wrong with a mchale one
Well just thought id reply to this thread as i stack several thousand bales a year as i am a contractor who has both a roller bale squeezer and one with two paddles which grabs a bale by its side. My advice is to forget about buying the the bale handler with the paddles. For several reasons it is more expensive than the one with the rollers bales tend slip out of it, And if you squeez a bale two tight with it it damages the plastic,It is not a good idea to stack wet bales 3 high on there ends. The bale squeezer with the roller is far more versatile because you can take the rollers off and use it to carry two bales of hay or straw. It does not damage near as many bales as the other type. And stacking bales on their flat is just the best way. Very few of the farmers i stack bales for very rarely ever ask for the bales to be stacked on their ends. A new rossmore bale squeezer with rollers was 1050 euros the last time i checked.
Think @laoisfarmer got one of them trunk type last year and was very impressed with it if the grey matter is still working Wright that is
Yea its the only type to use/buy
I have a roller type here but wouldn't consider using it since I got the soft hands.Would soft hands not be a nightmare for damaging bales when releasing bales and trying to get away from the stack? Off topic I bought a double ducks foot handler last week for the rear of the tractor and that damaged 50% of the bales handled. It's going back Tuesday!!
How do you put bales on end with a trunk type?Roller and hands type here, if stacking hayledge on end it's the hands type every time for me, but silage sitting on the barrel we'd go for the mchale, mainly as most are drawn in wrapped so it's easier pick them off. That said if you leave a bale less on the floor of the trailer it is very easy to load and unload with the soft hand.
Never had a problem stacking them on end before we got the hands mind, just gently tip them out on top of the previous bale, after the first few you'd do it in your sleep!
Have used a tanco trunk type aswell for squares and if I could I think I'd ditch both the handlers we have for one of them, could put a full load on the trailer in either orientation with them
Yup the bales would be sticking out either side on the bottom row but its fairly harmless at the same time.May not be thinking about this right, do you not end up with the bales wide on a trailer with the trunk type as you couldn't knit them in together?
Just nudge them gently or else pull back with the trunk, a quick flick to crowd as the bale comes up on balance point and the trunk moves away from the bale. And you don't need that big of a gap really, once there the bare with of roller it find its way inHow do you put bales on end with a trunk type?
Push them over on the ground and re grab them?
Problem with them is the need for a decent gap between rows on the trailer. Makes everything just a bit wider.