Building Better Bale Stackers

[Davy 6160]

I am in the process of designing a heavy duty hydraulic bale stacker/handler. What are some of the problems and/or weaknesses that anyone has found with other stackers?

 

[Sharpy]

I have the Fleming stacker pictured, not bad but the bottom of the legs badly needs a dome on it to not catch bales and the tubes need that lip removed and the slewtec system used instead.

 

[Zebbedee]

We have mchale one and bolt and washer to hold tube one to the tine can catch the previous stacked bale when pulling out of stack and main pivot needs to be stronger eg weld breaks round the bushing tube

 

[Sharpy]

Far and away the best to use was the Foster classic with the free spinning tubes and no lips or rough bits to tear the plastic. Ram was exposed to damage though and the pivots tore out, not to mention tubes snapping..... good to use though.

 

[Scruffywelder]

Hard to improve on one of these...

SGM stacker

 

[Andrew1983]

The prodig stacker is about as good as I have used. Have worn out KV ones in a season. A Pollock was sold to me as being built to last which was not true.
The pivot pins need to be seriously strong, in strong bushes, on a strong frame not just tacked on a folded sheet of tin. The tine/tube needs to be about 46” long, the KV I had they were 50” an you couldn’t help damage the bale behind the one you were stacking. It really was terrible in many ways. PS Murray also make a good one. The Quickie soft hands one is also good for can stacking.

 

[johnboy87]

Having used lwc, mchale and quicke unibal. The lwc is good but doesn't open far enough to "drop" a bale out the bottom or to drop over the top of a bale and there is no "float" to the tubes when open and guiding them between bales on a trailer, the mchale will catch bales with the washer system that holds the tubes on and has the same issue that there is no float when guiding it in between bales while at the same time when "squeezed" they swing so will rough bales up while carrying one and rattle/swing about on the road unless you open them. The quicke is excellent as the arms are solid while "squeezed and float while open, but the rollers are too big when guiding in between anything but perfectly round bales