Bale prong

[new holland 4 ever]

Here is my bale prong, all made of steel.

I'll take some better pics some time, when the weather is better.

[Deere-est]

Hey not bad, looks sturdy.

[rich.new holland]

looks tidy nh  what will you be using it on 

[MJB1]

looks tidy nh  what will you be using it on 

bales i imagine rich \

[HenryMC]

looks nice mate good job  ;)

[rich.new holland]

bales i imagine rich \

haha  got me there    no i meant what tractor will he be using it on 

[CMB]

Has anyone made a round bale fork with a single spike that attaches to a vintage front loader? If it looked anything like NHFE's, I'd snap it up right away. Guess the spike would have to be small enough to fit through old round bales though. I took a photo of a David Brown 995 with one in Dorset about 20 years ago.

I'm surprised that Britains didn't release any round bale handling equipment with the old Loadall/front loader sets. For that matter, I haven't seen any round bale handling equipment for the more recent loaders..

[fordson major]

I think you have made a good job of this and it makes a change to see something different to scratch built buckrakes  well done.

[johndeerelad]

what type of tractor are you going to use that on?

a uh?

[MJB1]

Has anyone made a round bale fork with a single spike that attaches to a vintage front loader? If it looked anything like NHFE's, I'd snap it up right away. Guess the spike would have to be small enough to fit through old round bales though. I took a photo of a David Brown 995 with one in Dorset about 20 years ago.

I'm surprised that Britains didn't release any round bale handling equipment with the old Loadall/front loader sets. For that matter, I haven't seen any round bale handling equipment for the more recent loaders..

apart from using the pallet froks no they didn't .

next time you go to a show mate , go through the rummage boxes , find some serviceable pallet forks , snap forks off, get a nail with same diameter as the hole in bale , drill through backplate , push nail through ,glue & paint ,

sorted 

[new holland 4 ever]

thanks everybody, I will be using it on my converted mc 115 with a loader on the front and that on th back (the tractor now has a nearly finished scratch built 3 point linkage)

[Deere-est]

apart from using the pallet froks no they didn't .

next time you go to a show mate , go through the rummage boxes , find some serviceable pallet forks , snap forks off, get a nail with same diameter as the hole in bale , drill through backplate , push nail through ,glue & paint ,

sorted 

Not for children under 13 years of age!!  :D

Ertl did one, it came in the loader set with the John Deere, Case or MF. Was a shade to big so it meant drilling out the Britains bale centres. Like MJ says though, it is an easy thing to have a go at making. 

[1/32collector]

that is a good simple idea will do it at the weekend when i get home. (the simple ideas are the best) will put up photos when i have it done

apart from using the pallet froks no they didn't .

next time you go to a show mate , go through the rummage boxes , find some serviceable pallet forks , snap forks off, get a nail with same diameter as the hole in bale , drill through backplate , push nail through ,glue & paint ,

sorted 

[CMB]

I saw a bale prong sitting in one of Brian Norman's trays at Toytrac, but it was snapped up pretty quickly

[Tractorman810]

dave twose used to do a bale handler for the older britains loader/ jcb, just a old back plate of the pallet one with a nail fixed through it, same size as the hole in the bales, held ok to, i have one somewhere, he also do a rear one the same

[jcb4cxkid]

iam liking the bale prong nh 4 ever  :)