How do the spears on a trailed bale feeder, retract without lifting the bale back off?

Published 28th January 2021
 

You’ve asked and we’ve answered! Hustler consultant Lance Paskewitz, answers a common question asked by customers;How do the spears on a trailed bale feeder, retract without lifting the bale back off?’ As Lance explains, Hustler has designed a tripping mechanism that retracts the spears out of the bale without lifting the bale back off.

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Transcript

So we get a lot of questions about, How can you spear the bale, set it in, and then retract your spears, without pulling the bale off? Well with the tripping mechanism here, as you load it in and it tips over the point where it’s just above the table, it’ll trip these spears and which will pivot, lower the bale onto the table, the spears pull straight out and then reset to grab your next bale.