TILT BED BALE ACCUMULATOR

[D80]

I am thinking of building a tilt bed bale accumulator to attach behind my wire tie square baler. Here are some preliminary cad drawings of what I am planning on building. I would like some constructive critisism on my design so I can improve it before I start to cut steel. I am designing it to collect 8 bales and then the bed will tilt and drop the 8 bales onto the ground. Once the bales are on the ground they will be picked up with a grapple attached to the front of the loader and stacked onto a hay wagon or semi trailer.

 

[D80]

Here is a drawing of the accumulator with the bed tilted. I forgot to mention in my earlier post that i have not got the wheels designed yet, but they will be caster type so i can attach the accumulator to the baler in two spots. This would alow me to keep the baler running as i am making turns.

 

[D80]

This is a drawing of the bale grapple that will be attached to the loader. There will be a hydraulic cylinder in the center that will rotate the circular speers into the bales.

 

[D80]

Here is a website of the accumulator that i am "copying" from.

http://www.hoelscherinc.com/

 

[Greg_Phillips]

Have you gotten any further with your plans to build the accumulator and grapple. I was just wondering because I have been looking at similar setup for possible future purchase. When you come up with something I would love to see it and talk to you about the plans and how hard it was to build.

Thanks

 

[D80]

HAVEN'T HAD MUCH CHANCE TO WORK ON THE PLANS, BEEN BUSY AT WORK. I'M NOT SURE WHEN I AM GOING TO ACTUALLY BUILD THIS, I WAS JUST WANTING TO GET PLANS SO I COULD SCROUNGE UP THE PARTS THAT I NEED. SO FAR I HAVE THE HYDRAULIC CYLINDERS, SOME HYDRAULICS TUBING THAT I TOOK OFF MY OLD TOMATO HARVESTER, AND THE TIRES AND RIMS FOR THE CASTER WHEELS. I HAVEN'T QUITE FIGURED OUT HOW THE HYDRAULICS SYSTEM WILL WORK, SO I HAVEN'T GOT ANY VALVES YET. WILL POST UPDATED PLANS WHEN I GET A CHANCE TO WORK ON THEM.