mchale bale handler

mengele

I have a mchale bale handler here for the front loader. I would often load fertiliser with it and put a half tonne bag on each spike.

Would it be a bit too much to ask these to move a full pallet of fertiliser out of a trailer? As in stick the two spikes into the pallet and lift it all off in one go?

ruwithme

Don't do it. A compromise to say the least. Bound to be a dairy man near hand with pallet forks for/with a loader.

mr.stonewall

Lifting 2 ton with a front loader would be serious pressure on any tractor. An option would be to lift 2 bags off at a time and store on separate pallets

hopeso

The bale handler certainly wouldn't be designed for that kind of weight, nor would the loader probably....

mengele

Ya I can lift them off in twos but was just thinking what would a person get away with lifting on a pallet. Maybe a tonne is even plenty

mr.stonewall

Once the straps that bind the 4 bags together are cut it makes the bags unstable on the pallet. At the price of the stuff at the moment I wouldnt be taking the risk of a bag falling and splitting

hopeso

mengele wrote: »

Ya I can lift them off in twos but was just thinking what would a person get away with lifting on a pallet. Maybe a tonne is even plenty

Those handlers are probably lifting plenty of bales up around the ton mark. But a pallet would probably extend the weight out beyond the end of the prongs a bit.

lakill Farm

My MX 75U loader is maxed out at 1.2/1.3m lifting a gang slat on a 105hp tractor


Some of the 160/200HP tractors will lift 2 ton no problem with pallet forks. Local lad here use to deliver all the pallets of fert for a co-op on a bale trailer and John deere tractor even back 10/12 years ago.


The bale lifter your on about (Spikes with 2 rollers) like realistic 1 bale of silage of max 1ton is there design . you buy a set of pallet forks for 350/400 euro. set here cost me about 250 and are on the tractor weekly all year around. Pallets, IBC, dropping implements into a shed , meal, fert, silage wrap, cement and blocks even a bale of silage if I was to lazy to swap it off

mengele wrote: »

Ya I can lift them off in twos but was just thinking what would a person get away with lifting on a pallet. Maybe a tonne is even plenty

FintanMcluskey

Certainly not advisable with a bale spike. When you carry 2 half tonne bags the weight is carried at the widest strongest part of the spike.

Even with a pallet forks, 2 ton on a pallet forks is at the upper capability of the largest loader’s

A quickie Q75 or Q980 will have the rams to lift regardless of tractor but it’s then up to the tractor being able to actually move about

timple23

lakill Farm wrote: »

you buy a set of pallet forks for 350/400 euro. set here cost me about 250

Please show me where I can pick up a set for that money. Can't find any under 500.

lakill Farm

timple23 wrote: »

Please show me where I can pick up a set for that money. Can't find any under 500.

Place in Armagh selling them for 350 sterling on Donedeal

timple23

lakill Farm wrote: »

Place in Armagh selling them for 350 sterling on Donedeal

That price is carraige only, they're 450 sterling plus vat incl brackets and forks.

lakill Farm

timple23 wrote: »

That price is carraige only, they're 450 sterling plus vat incl brackets and forks.

Grand well im not looking for a set I have my set 6 years and that's the price they cost me. im sure if you watch the classified adds and have the money and time to move straight away you will pick up a forks in the price range


Of buy an old forklift mast head and get someone to weld the brackets on to suit your loader