Moving Round Bales with a CK20

[bearhawk]

I figured I would have to slide the bale along the ground, but I hooked the hay hook to a strap and the little CK picked it right up.

Now it was only a 4x4 bale, but it didn't have any problem at all with just the loaded tires.

 

[gilbertmsg]

That's awsome. Give me a little better detail of how you used the strap and hay hook to make this happen. I would like to do this too. I have to back my trailer into padock and push bail off trailer. I have always though that the 20 would pick it up.

Thanks!!

Eddie

 

[LD1]

What do you estimate that bale weighs???

~500lbs????

That is probabally right on the edge of what you can lift (according to kioti)

Your loader has a 1074lb lift capacity @ the pins. That probabally translates to about 700-800 at the bucket edge. With that bale being more forward of that......

It is truly amazing what these little machines will do. I have the other flavor of orange, and it will lift more than it is rated to do as well. I just dont like making a habbit of it because it will wear things out faster:thumbsup:

 

[bearhawk]

That's awsome. Give me a little better detail of how you used the strap and hay hook to make this happen. I would like to do this too. I have to back my trailer into padock and push bail off trailer. I have always though that the 20 would pick it up.

Thanks!!

Eddie

Basically, I just scooted the lip of the bucket under the bale standing on it's edge. Set the hay hook in the opposite corner, hooked a motorcycle tiedown between the hook and the pivot brackets of the bucket. To keep it from rolling off to the side you might want to use two straps, one to each side of the bucket. I pulled the straps tight and just lifted the loader without curling the bucket.

 

[jimmyj]

Spectacular. A real work saver. I would, just because I'm paranoid, recommend some rear ballast even with the loaded tires though. The reason is I used to lift bales this exact way with my CK30 and when I added the "out back" ballast it was very much more stable.

 

[Oaktruss]

I have the same loader on my CK35. Works great. Keep it low & use rear weight. Also, use the seat belt. We enforce the seat belt rule at our house. Never an issue until one day my 18 year old son was using the rear rake on a steep section of a gravel road. Tractor was sideways on the hill & doing fine until he raised the rake all the way up, which instantly rolled the tractor. He had the seat belt on & was not injured.

 

[Dmace]

Hardest working 21 hp on the planet right there. :thumbsup:

 

[glmf]

I bought my CK20HST in 2007 based on what I read on here. Its been a great tractor and just like the OP's picture is continually amazes me with what it can do. Nice pic

 

[mj007]

Hardest working 21 hp on the planet right there. :thumbsup:

DITTO on that!

 

[Alien]

I just shove a steel bar through the middle of the bale and hook chains to each end and onto my hooks on the bucket. It is a CK30 and has no probs at all.