New Bale Squeeze

[Anymulewilldo]

Got a standard squeeze for the loader tractor, the rollers over spikes kind. rollers for wrapped, spikes for hay/straw. Currently only got spikes for the telehandler. Could do with a squeeze too fit it. Seem too be more bales coming stacked on their ends nowadays and the loader with the rollers isn't the best for that job. Also i keep being offered the odd load of wrapped squares but have to spike them off and then get them used sharpish. I know I can patch over the holes, currently do but seems a daft way of unloading them.

I've seen this on eBay, do these work on square bales as well as rounds? it is predominantly round bales we use but the flexibility would be useful

BALE GRAB/SQUEEZE WITH Merlo Brackets/Tractor BRACKETS | eBay

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[RhysT]

We’ve got two Mchale soft hands. Oldest one is 5yrs. Handles thousands of bales. No issues other than rubbed pipes. I think they were about £950 plus vat. Picks up square bales easy enough depending on size.

 

[Ali_Maxxum]

http://www.albutt.com/product/f450-side-squeeze-bale-grab/ Think you need one like this for squares? Although I've never seen one used for them I can't quite see how it would ever open wide enough to pinch a square long ways?

 

[Bullring]

I got one of these, does round and square.

Implements for front loaders, wheel loaders and other tool carriers

World-leading implements for front loaders, wheel loaders, telehandlers yard loaders and skidsteers. Buckets, bale handling, implements for manure and silage, implements for lifting. Quicke offers high quality implements for farming since 1949.

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[Sausage]

You want a squeeze that goes over top of the bales, they’re adjustable for either rounds or squares. I personally find they are easier for unloading off the trailer.

 

[neilo]

I’ve a McHale Soft Hands and it would be very rare to rip a bale (bales wrapped in field and trailered back, some sold from stack). It would cope well with a 4’ square I would have thought.

There are cheaper copies available (as in your eBay link) but I find it easier to have one arm locked in position on mine, which I’m not sure you can do on a lot of them. It makes it easier to slip down between bales on a trailer or stack, without ripping them.

Great for picking up wool bags and stacking them on a trailer too.?

 

[Anymulewilldo]

Brilliant folks. That's helped my descisions a lot! ?Cheers

 

[Greythundercloudys]

I bought a yellow soft hands of bourne, did 100 bales yesterday for first time, no problems, a good heavy machine 695+vat, well happy with it so far.

 

[Dog Bowl]

I got one of these, does round and square.

Implements for front loaders, wheel loaders and other tool carriers

World-leading implements for front loaders, wheel loaders, telehandlers yard loaders and skidsteers. Buckets, bale handling, implements for manure and silage, implements for lifting. Quicke offers high quality implements for farming since 1949.

quicke.nu

The older of my 2 elephant grabs snapped last night so need to buy another grab. How does the quicke perform when trying to get the bar down between bales on a trailer? What sort of money did you pay for it? I make both round and square bales so need a jack of all trades type grab really

 

[HarryB97]

I have a flat sided side squeeze from Cherry Products. It stacks rounds on their side or as tin cans and you can carry two at once if you go steady. It also handles two squares at once and if they have been stacked with an over the top grab you can push inbetween them without tearing them as the wrap is so thick on the end. I wouldn't have anything else definitley the most versatile grab.

Side Squeeze Bale Grab | Cherry Products Ltd - Agricultural Attachments

www.cherryproducts.co.uk

 

[Bullring]

The older of my 2 elephant grabs snapped last night so need to buy another grab. How does the quicke perform when trying to get the bar down between bales on a trailer? What sort of money did you pay for it? I make both round and square bales so need a jack of all trades type grab really

Pretty good to be honest, you use the top bar to pull the bales back and the arm floats so drops in between the bales. The whole grab is adjustable for different size bales by pulling out 2 pins and sliding the front arm forward or back. The front arm isn’t as bulky as the Ritchie or browns. It’s the same as the albutt without the price tag as quicke make the albutt grab, think it was £1025 as there was £50 discount from quicke at the time whereas albutt wanted nearly £1500 for the same grab. I can live with the colour black.

 

[Massey 6470]

I changed from a quicke roller over tines to one of these this year, can lift bales three different ways with this, definitely well impressed

 

[AJR75]

@Dog Bowl would that have been one of the Mchale type grabs by any chance?

 

[Dog Bowl]

@Dog Bowl would that have been one of the Mchale type grabs by any chance?

No we (did) have 2 Twose grabs. Served me really well to be fair. The older of the 2 snapped. Just replaced with an Albutt which a dealer had in their yard.

 

[Bullring]

No we (did) have 2 Twose grabs. Served me really well to be fair. The older of the 2 snapped. Just replaced with an Albutt which a dealer had in their yard.

Which albutt did you go for in the end.

 

[Dog Bowl]

Which albutt did you go for in the end.

F352. Dealer had one in their yard. Its very good so far. Making both round and square bales means I'm loathe to spend 1000's on numerous different grabs... so one grab to do 2 types of bale wins for me ?

 

[Bullring]

F352. Dealer had one in their yard. Its very good so far. Making both round and square bales means I'm loathe to spend 1000's on numerous different grabs... so one grab to do 2 types of bale wins for me ?

Ideal, same as my quicke topgrip, I’m pleased with mine.

 

[TheRock]

Would a tractor loader be able to stack 3 high on the round with soft hands? Would the design mean the loader looses a bit of height.

 

[Fendt516profi]

I can stack 4 high with soft hands just depends how your grabbing bale

 

[TheRock]

I can stack 4 high with soft hands just depends how your grabbing bale

With a front end loader?