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<blockquote data-quote="backhoeboogie" data-source="post: 576587" data-attributes="member: 3162"><p>Build the cradle feeders with old trampoline frames. People everywhere have the old trampoline frames. When a mat goes bad, their options are to buy a new mat for $250 or a complete trampoline for slightly more. Most buy a whole new unit. </p><p></p><p>These are light, they are galvanized, and they need plenty of gussets. I use the bow from cross braces and weld a piece of cow panel in the bottom. The tampoline frame uprights are the uprights for the hay cradles. </p><p></p><p>My hay waste was cut dramatically. So yes the studies are correct. I will never use the rings again. </p><p></p><p>Caustic Burno put me on to the cradles with his posts a while back. I now have 8 that I have built for myself and there is less than $25 in most of them (lots of time tho). Half a cattle panel is the biggest expense. I have built 6 for friends. I have another that just needs gussets and a couple of more frames that have been given to me. </p><p></p><p>So in the end I have the cradles for much less cost that your typical hay ring and it is merely an effort of recycling steel from tampoline frames. </p><p></p><p>I can post a pic again if someone would like to see it. Nothing pretty and nothing special. Just heavy enough to support two round bales and light enough to load in the pick-up by myself.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="backhoeboogie, post: 576587, member: 3162"] Build the cradle feeders with old trampoline frames. People everywhere have the old trampoline frames. When a mat goes bad, their options are to buy a new mat for $250 or a complete trampoline for slightly more. Most buy a whole new unit. These are light, they are galvanized, and they need plenty of gussets. I use the bow from cross braces and weld a piece of cow panel in the bottom. The tampoline frame uprights are the uprights for the hay cradles. My hay waste was cut dramatically. So yes the studies are correct. I will never use the rings again. Caustic Burno put me on to the cradles with his posts a while back. I now have 8 that I have built for myself and there is less than $25 in most of them (lots of time tho). Half a cattle panel is the biggest expense. I have built 6 for friends. I have another that just needs gussets and a couple of more frames that have been given to me. So in the end I have the cradles for much less cost that your typical hay ring and it is merely an effort of recycling steel from tampoline frames. I can post a pic again if someone would like to see it. Nothing pretty and nothing special. Just heavy enough to support two round bales and light enough to load in the pick-up by myself. [/QUOTE]
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