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<blockquote data-quote="Dave" data-source="post: 1658878" data-attributes="member: 498"><p>Feeding this morning with snow blowing side ways was a real joy. The $17,000+ price tag on their flaker feeder got me to doing research and thinking. I am thinking start with a full size pickup bed trailer ($200). Mount a little quad winch (<$100) on the tongue of the trailer. Run the cable to the back and then to the front. Some pullies getting it there where it will pull the bale toward the rear of the trailer flaking the hay off. A piece of iron that the cable will pull to push the bale and a runner for it to track on. Some channel iron runners for the bale to slide on. A frame over the back with rake teeth so the hay falls off one flake at a time. It will only hold one bale at a time but at homemade for around $500-$600 as opposed to $17,000 I can afford to make a few extra trips.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Dave, post: 1658878, member: 498"] Feeding this morning with snow blowing side ways was a real joy. The $17,000+ price tag on their flaker feeder got me to doing research and thinking. I am thinking start with a full size pickup bed trailer ($200). Mount a little quad winch (<$100) on the tongue of the trailer. Run the cable to the back and then to the front. Some pullies getting it there where it will pull the bale toward the rear of the trailer flaking the hay off. A piece of iron that the cable will pull to push the bale and a runner for it to track on. Some channel iron runners for the bale to slide on. A frame over the back with rake teeth so the hay falls off one flake at a time. It will only hold one bale at a time but at homemade for around $500-$600 as opposed to $17,000 I can afford to make a few extra trips. [/QUOTE]
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