jedstivers":rtonb7bc said:
Wish you had a few more pictures of those things so I could see the design a little better.
If you are referring to me jed, I can get some pics. Here is an explanation of them.
You take two of the U post bases, run a piece of angle iron across them. Old bed frame iron or store bought - whatever you have. A few of mine have tube steel across them.
Run the bowed pieces from a round trampoline frame across the centers and weld them to the angle iron pieces.
Flip it over and weld a piece of iron across the middle of the bows, then run a pieces of tube steel gussets from that center member back to the U post bases.
Flip it back over and run 8 short gusset pieces at each corner. 20 inch long pieces of angle or pipe etc. Just something to give strength to the legs.
Cut a scrap piece of wire cattle panel and lace it across the bow inside.
I put a 8 to 10 inch vertical piece of tube steel or angle up from each corner and weld a rail around on top.
You can load them in the pick-up truck by yourself. They are fairly light. The gussets are what give them strength. I load tested the first one with 1 and 1/2 bales of 4 by 6 coastal hay. Pushed it around a bit and it held.
Old trampoline frames are around. Gather them up if you can.
Most of the items in mine is pure scrap or short iron. I probably have less than $10 or 15 in each of them. You can't buy used hay rings for that.