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I like that little loader! You can sure get a load limit PDQ hauling round bales like that, too! I put 14 round bales on my trailer, and add the weight of the trailer, and I'm pulling over 30k pounds down the road... Not that I care to do it often.
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We were hauling on the farm Barry. Up on the "freak show", I keep telling Sam Olson they need a loader, that quick tach is so nice.
Those are year old bales, that's why they are dogeared.
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Richard, a front end loader would be handy but we like tractors with a PTO, 3 point, drawbar and hydraulic hookups!
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Have both Sam, you might well be amazed how handy the loader with the quick tach is.
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They'd be great for unloading semi loads of round bales.
I think they have bucket/grapple setups that can grab 3 full-size round bales at once.
The rearward weight advantage and tight turning would awesome.
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Richard, a front end loader would be handy but we like tractors with a PTO, 3 point, drawbar and hydraulic hookups! You don't know what you're missing!
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And not bustin' front axel spindles on tractors. Do not think however that the industrial loaders do not take money to keep running, Jake put about $22,000 in the transmission in that Cat a few year back.
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It is so nice to see those wonderful big, round bales as opposed to those hateful little square things that I fought with in my youth.
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Richard, a front end loader would be handy but we like tractors with a PTO, 3 point, drawbar and hydraulic hookups! You don't know what you're missing! I've ran 'em and they are easy to like but I can't pull anything with one! Maybe someday the budget will allow.
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Still have abunch of bales to move here as well. We unload ours with a skid steer, works well.
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My first four wheel drive loader was a Tratormotive TL12 I bought well used in 1971. Don't laugh.
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If you put Taco Bell sauce in your ramen noodles it tastes just like poverty
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That is not the exact machine. It's long gone from here. I through a rod through the block on one side, and the oil pan on the other side, in the spring of 1979.
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They'd be great for unloading semi loads of round bales.
I think they have bucket/grapple setups that can grab 3 full-size round bales at once.
The rearward weight advantage and tight turning would awesome.
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This is how I move most of mine.
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That rear fork picks up the bale nicely. I see oak leaves, red oaks?
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Yes, mostly red oaks. I have left as many trees as I can in the places I run my cattle and horses, as it gives them shade and windbreaks. Have a lot of cedars as well.
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As to the Tractormotive loader, I was hooked up to what looked like a rather large cattle truck one winter morning, the truck and a full load of cattle were too far toward the ditch. I sort of felt like the truck, and load might just pull me like a large catfish pulls a bobber down.
Chains on all wheels, and that old gal would move a bit of what was in front of it. Operator comfort was not a strong suit however.
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I like that little loader! You can sure get a load limit PDQ hauling round bales like that, too! I put 14 round bales on my trailer, and add the weight of the trailer, and I'm pulling over 30k pounds down the road... Not that I care to do it often. I realize chit happens and folks move thousands of bales like that every year but every time I see a load like that I think about a guy I knew that got killed when one cut loose on a trailer he was behind and landed in his lap at about 60mph.
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