Material or article handling – Round hay bale handling
Patent
1998-07-06
1999-03-23
Young, Karen M.
Material or article handling
Round hay bale handling
414911, A01D 9000
Patent
active
058850430
ABSTRACT:
A bale butler for transporting and feeding large round bales of hay includes a hay bale attachment frame and a carrying bed attached to each other in functional arrangement. The hay bale attachment frame has a front bar and a pair of bale connector arms pivotally mounted to the front bar. The hay bale attachment frame has a drawbar and a standard ball-type trailer hitch. Each of the bale connector arms has a hollow cylinder which provides for rotatable attachment of a pair of detachable bale attachment pins. The bale attachment pins are each sharpened on one end. The bale attachment pins have holes drilled perpendicular to the longitudinal axis at measured intervals and have slidably, perpendicularly mounted a plate. The bale butler has a carrying bed which consists of a rectangularly shaped deck. The deck has an axle rearward of the intermediate point of the long rectangular sides of the deck which axle has rotatively mounted hubs, wheels and tires. The deck has a pair of flexible stabilizing chains for attachment to a pair of stabilizing receiving attachments of the hay bale attachment frame. The deck has a collapsible handle. The bale butler has a plurality of two supports used to secure the hay bale attachment frame to the deck at the rear portions of both.
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Hess Douglas A.
Young Karen M.
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