Big bale grabs @0- correct way to travel on roads

[Doing it for the kids]

Can someone in the know please confirm the recommended way to travel with one of these on the roads

To me it’s obvious but I’m often wrong...

Open or shut?

 

[Andrew]

Either with tine guards fitted to all the tines, or on a trailer.

 

[Yale]

Could you weld a set of brackets on the inside of the grab and manage to then pick it up with the tines facing the cab,bit of a faff but would be safe then.

 

[Al R]

Put it up in the air and crowd it back

 

[Gormers]

On a small trailer towed behind handler for grab of that size
Extra 5 min faff but lot safer

 

[tw15]

Always thought that attachments are ment to be on a trailer for safety reasons .

 

[Chae1]

Could you carry a grab of bales to cover tines?

 

[puppet]

I presume the pallet is for some protection but won't wash with DVSA. Carrying bales would obscure the view or be too high to be stable.

 

[Exfarmer]

Saw a teleporter couple of days ago straw forks pointing forward and a grab on a trailer behind , not sure what that was about

 

[kiwi pom]

If you're going anywhere near a busy road, put it on a trailer.
Tines need decent guards obviously and if it was here you'd need marker boards on the front as its oversize. Although the way the rules change it may now have to go on a trailer, its been a while since I've driven one.

 

[Doing it for the kids]

I’ve seen several being driven with all tines open locally which just seems like the worst option possible

 

[RushesToo]

I know it can't work, but if you turned it around and it was pointing toward you, would you drive it? - my answer is no and it requires plan b.

Actually looking more closely that would probably work, so close the tines and do that.

 

[Tomr10]

How big are time guards ?

 

[Phil P]

I presume the pallet is for some protection but won't wash with DVSA. Carrying bales would obscure the view or be too high to be stable.

Think it’s been moved with the pallet forks in the picture as they’re sticking out the end of the pallet.


I’d say move on a trailer for any sort of distance.

 

[Paul E]

With the grab and tines open, closing it only when you've a good grasp of the fookin wonker cyclist in front.

 

[essexpete]

Put it up in the air and crowd it back

The higher the better and perhaps a Spike or two on the wheels.

 

[Farmer_Joe]

To be fair if off a few miles I would get an old weeks trailer of something and put it on that to move it, we use to move a matbro 11 miles between farms with a huge bucket which we stuck on an old single axle flat trailer and towed behind handler.

 

[chaffcutter]

Trailer far safer. I got pulled in to the local weighbridge/checkpoint with pallet tines on ours, not even anything sharp, and not let go until I had removed them and got them into the trailer.
Those tines are deadly, don’t risk someone’s life by taking it out like that.

 

[Cowcalf]

make a frame to cover the forks and that a tine from each side will clamp into and the rest of the frame sits onto the frame of bale stacker nothing too tight as clamping tines will hold it secure

 

[jondear]

Could you carry a grab of bales to cover tines?

Visibility might be an issue!