BEST Bale Basket MODIFICATION you can make!
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- čas přidán 20. 07. 2020
- This is the best BALE BASKET modification you can make.
The E-Z Trail bale baskets come with an agricultural tongue (using a pin), which makes them quite difficult and dangerous to attach and detach.
Here's a relatively easy way to make this much more user-friendly by converting it to a ball mount attachment.
Original idea from "Michigan Hay Sales": • EZ Trail Bale Basket R... - Věda a technologie
Glad you got the video up
That's a really great idea, and we already have a regular hitch on ours
Oh gosh! I didn't know you had to self assemble hem!
Yeah, we bought two new ones, and they came delivered "nested"....a REAL paint to get off the low-bed truck! Assembly was okay, just a bit tedious.
I love the bale baskets, but they certainly have their quirks! :)
We have a pin grabber hitch with cord in cab, pull up to where you want to drop basket and pull the cord, back up to next basket. They are supposed to self couple too but that doesn’t work so well.
I've got the same bale basket. I don't see how your hitch can possibly work once you start baling. When the basket is full you have a bale sitting right on top of the hitch and its compressed and won[t want to budge. We stick a pin in from the BOTTOM of the hitch and then put a stay pin on top. To unhitch you pull the stay or keeper pin and pull the main pin down and out. One or maybe two bales fall out the chute but you just toss them on the bottom rack on the basket. I don't see how your method can work at all. Good luck, bale baskets are a great help for the small farmer.
Yes, you are 100% correct; and I should really do a video of this.
The way this works: I use a scrap steel post from a broken road sign (you could use a 2x4 also) and use it as leverage to lift the tongue of the bale basket. Works perfectly, and takes just a couple of seconds; then, as you say, one or two bales drop down on the ground, which can just be placed on the little triangle area in the front of the bale basket.
Maybe I need to make another video to show the whole process....this really was a fantastic addition to the two bale baskets I have: once you hook up a full bale basket with a hitch like shown in @3:12 in this video, it's hard to think how cumbersome this was with a pin.
Many thanks for your good comment and insight.
@Bret4207
You can see what I mean in my other comment here in this "hay-making" video: czcams.com/video/i5kHhy_A8jQ/video.html (go to time marker "10 minutes" of that video if it doesn't take you there)
Wait, I just noticed you ahve a spring on yours too! Ours doesnt!
I put that on myself; sorry the video wasn't clear about that. It took several goes to find a strong enough spring that would hold the tongue up!
Good idea but I'd never trust your weld honestly. I'd be waiting for the day when the wagon is lost going up a hill with the baler. Kudo's though, good idea outside the weld, imo.
lol, that weld is fine, really. There will be other things that will brake off before that weld! Cheers, and thanks for watching.