need help building hay trailer "unloader"!!

[jthayes]

johndeere3720
i am afraid too much weight would be on one side and damage the tires
or suspension. or warp the frame

john t

 

[Johndeere3720]

like this...

 

[Johndeere3720]

johndeere3720
i am afraid too much weight would be on one side and damage the tires
or suspension. or warp the frame

john t

No, just have it pivot on one side and side dump. have some sort of stabilizer bar to fold down and dump the load on one side.

 

[Johndeere3720]

Kinda like this...

 

[jthayes]

i think maybe two stabilizer bars.

 

[Johndeere3720]

Be sure the stabilizer bars are in safe locations so they wont get crushed.

 

[BHD]

Hard to beat a hay van for hauling rolls.

I had a trailer I considered doing some thing similar when I only had poor loader tractor,

I had come to a conclusion that if I built a cradle and then put the pivots in the stock pockets of the trailer, (was concerned about the width and was wanting to keep them from falling off the trailer as well),

but then put some hydraulics on trailer to push the cradle up, very similar to the hay hauler like in the pictures, but adapted to fit on a 20 foot flat bed, and removable so the trailer had more than one use, if a post was fitted in between the cradles one could use a winch and cable to lift the cradles as well,

there was a kit that one was able to buy, may not have been real successfully as I only ever saw parts of it once, but they built a head board that would set up on the front of the trailer and cables ran back to a shaft on the rear of the trailer and drums for the cable to wind up on working like twin winches pulling the head board back dumping the bales off the rear of the trailer, I do not remember seeing any pipe type tracks for the bails to slide on, the guy only used it a few times and then I saw it setting in a building, and he explained it to me,

 

[jthayes]

i am thru hauling hay for the year and can now get u all some pics and
get to work. i believe a plate down the middle about 3 foot wide and raised
by either hydraulics or a lever type device would work good.

 

[rjmack]

i am thru hauling hay for the year

i think i know what you mean... it's tough to tie up a lot of money on specialty equipment these days.

those hay bunks look nice, but how to get a tractor up there?:laughing:

 

[smiley]

How much $ you want to spend? A loop of stout rope around the bales tied to the barn and drive forward will unload. QUOTE]

If you load the bales with the round side over the sides of the trailer, a good nylon rope attached to the rear of the trailer and run to the front under both rows of bales, then up over the top to the back again, then as shinnlinger says, attach the rope to something stout and drive out from under them. I done that lots of times to unload loose hay and also brush. I you load with the round side front to back, I think you could do the same by running the ropes between the bales back to front , then either pulling them off sideways with a car at home or possibly again attaching to a tree or ? and driving away from them. You might have to jam some sticks or something into the bales to hold the ropes about halfway up.
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