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<blockquote data-quote="backhoeboogie" data-source="post: 330049" data-attributes="member: 3162"><p>Take that pic of that feeder in Sir Loin's link, and reverse engineer it. Then build your own. That one will hold two bales. I am building singles. </p><p></p><p>Those old trampoline frames are all over the place. I have been gathering them up and building hay cradles, based on the pic Caustic posted a while back. </p><p></p><p>I had a guy at work whose trampoline mat split. It was about as cheap for him to buy a new trampoline than replace the mat. I gave him $20 for the old frame and built two hay cradles with material left over for the next one. </p><p></p><p>Old bed frames have high tensile angle iron in them. The iron is tougher than your typical A-36 material. I bought 9 old rusty bed frames for $11 from a garbage sale (garage sale for you city folks). There was something in the neighborhood of 300 foot of angle in those frames and it works great for gusseting. </p><p></p><p>I am lining the bottom of the hay cradles with pieces of cow panel. I am cutting the panel with bolt cutters and welding the sharp ends to the frames which precludes sharp edges since I burn the points off when I tack weld them down. I am using bent up panels. </p><p></p><p>The end result is hay cradles cheap. Stronger than store bought. Less wasted hay. The cows are not grinding their teeth on dirt off of the ground like you get with hay rings. </p><p></p><p>Look back through Caustic's posts and you'll see the hay cradle post with pictures. Mine have a bit more gusseting and are probably a bit of over kill on iron addition. But I have the caterpillar, backhoe, and 125 HP Massey with bucket to lift them and move them about. </p><p></p><p>I was at TSC up in Weatherford and saw a bunch of bent up cow panels. I asked the man out there what they were going to do with those damaged panels. He said, "Some sucker will give us $8 a piece for them." I told him to load all of them on my flat bed G/N. I have been welding them to gates, hay cradles etc. I just grab the edges with a hickey bar, push them in place and weld them down.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="backhoeboogie, post: 330049, member: 3162"] Take that pic of that feeder in Sir Loin's link, and reverse engineer it. Then build your own. That one will hold two bales. I am building singles. Those old trampoline frames are all over the place. I have been gathering them up and building hay cradles, based on the pic Caustic posted a while back. I had a guy at work whose trampoline mat split. It was about as cheap for him to buy a new trampoline than replace the mat. I gave him $20 for the old frame and built two hay cradles with material left over for the next one. Old bed frames have high tensile angle iron in them. The iron is tougher than your typical A-36 material. I bought 9 old rusty bed frames for $11 from a garbage sale (garage sale for you city folks). There was something in the neighborhood of 300 foot of angle in those frames and it works great for gusseting. I am lining the bottom of the hay cradles with pieces of cow panel. I am cutting the panel with bolt cutters and welding the sharp ends to the frames which precludes sharp edges since I burn the points off when I tack weld them down. I am using bent up panels. The end result is hay cradles cheap. Stronger than store bought. Less wasted hay. The cows are not grinding their teeth on dirt off of the ground like you get with hay rings. Look back through Caustic's posts and you'll see the hay cradle post with pictures. Mine have a bit more gusseting and are probably a bit of over kill on iron addition. But I have the caterpillar, backhoe, and 125 HP Massey with bucket to lift them and move them about. I was at TSC up in Weatherford and saw a bunch of bent up cow panels. I asked the man out there what they were going to do with those damaged panels. He said, "Some sucker will give us $8 a piece for them." I told him to load all of them on my flat bed G/N. I have been welding them to gates, hay cradles etc. I just grab the edges with a hickey bar, push them in place and weld them down. [/QUOTE]
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