Soft hands

[RRM]

Hello, I am looking at a 'soft hands' attachment to lift wrapped silage. I have priced A to z Engineering and SJH machinery. Any thoughts?

 

[nick...]

Ring agri linc.got a proforge one here and it’s been faultless.
Nick...

 

[Overrun]

Any makes better than another? Hustler seems to have longer thinner hands than some, better for loading on trailer?

 

[Fendt516profi]

I've got a McHale I put one bale on top of other then grab top of bottom and bottom of top bale. Have noticed foster has bigger hands so would grab more of each bale

 

[Finn farmer]

These are made for carrying two bales and great for loading the bales on trailer as they have one cylinder for each hand. We've the smaller Pp2 model (can be seen on my profile pic) and we like them. No sharp edges that rip the wrap as some others have. Don't know where you'll get them in GB, but know that they're exportet there.

 

[Dave W]

Nice foster in the classifieds. If you win lottery

 

[thorpe]

Nice foster in the classifieds. If you win lottery

fleming here good enough for us, only problem was when we lent it to a wvanker and he f**ked the pipes!

 

[Fendt516profi]

Nice foster in the classifieds. If you win lottery

Or if you don't manage to win lottery you could buy new https://www.charnleys.com/sales/item/machinery/new/28/foster-round-bale-stacker
Just looked back and the other is over end one

 

[Agri Spec Solicitor]

McHale soft hands here which is great.
We also have an A to Z old style bale grab with rollers and spikes inside the rollers. Build quality and paintwork very good, and they made it to our specification with a removable guard to secure straw bales. And they painted the rollers to match colour of tractor.

 

[Greythundercloudys]

Got one from j bourne, yellow ones, very well built, can't fault it at all.

 

[AJR75]

Apologies for the slight thread hijack but how do others get on/ what technique do you all use when taking the bales off the trailer- getting between the bales when they're stacked tightly together (on end) without damaging the wrap?

I used one for the first time on the weekend (Mchale) and found it a revelation for loading in the field but a little more tricky than the over the top type handler when unloading at the stack....

 

[Scholsey]

Can you get soft hands ones that open wide enough to pick up a wrapped square bale, looking to unload 4 string square silage bales off a lorry and worry i wont be able to get a over the top squeezer inbetween in the bales on the lorry once they've been bunched up.

 

[Overrun]

AJR75, my thoughts are exactly the same!

 

[Ducati899]

Apologies for the slight thread hijack but how do others get on/ what technique do you all use when taking the bales off the trailer- getting between the bales when they're stacked tightly together (on end) without damaging the wrap?

I used one for the first time on the weekend (Mchale) and found it a revelation for loading in the field but a little more tricky than the over the top type handler when unloading at the stack....

Just leave a slight gap when putting them on the trailer

 

[mar]

Some people rave about these and say they are much better than the soft hands. I haven't used either but just thought I'd put it up

 

[Farmer_Joe]

his tractor turn red half way through!

 

[RRM]

Thanks everyone for your advice

 

[Sebastian77]

Apologies for the slight thread hijack but how do others get on/ what technique do you all use when taking the bales off the trailer- getting between the bales when they're stacked tightly together (on end) without damaging the wrap?

I used one for the first time on the weekend (Mchale) and found it a revelation for loading in the field but a little more tricky than the over the top type handler when unloading at the stack....

Our McHale will just slide in-between when stacked on the trailer/in the stack, without damaging the sides of either bale. Must have moved thousands. Don't think it's one those things you need to over think!!

 

[Agri Spec Solicitor]

We leave a gap between columns of loaded bales but if they move to touch each other we approach bale with grab open then steer to the side and it pulls them apart. Easy with pivot steer.
It is quite difficult to puncture film with McHale.

 

[Finn farmer]

Some people rave about these and say they are much better than the soft hands. I haven't used either but just thought I'd put it up

Imo that puts too much pressure on small area of a bale. You'd still need soft hands to gather the bales after baling, so you'd then have two different implements to handle bales.