Front blade

Arctic,

It will be interesting to see how you pick up sliage bales with this blade

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Yeah that's life isn't it! Although the bale lifter is the priority at the moment, that blade wouldn't have stayed in the scrapyard for more than a day, and after 10 years living in Finland I have learnt the signs that the winter really is coming!

It was 12 euros well spent even if it does distract me from the true path...[/]
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I have one of these levelling bladed on a 3 pt hitch. I believe that it was originally used on the railway for levelling out the chips that go under the railway lines in pre-continuous welded rail days. It is great for levelling but is very heavy - I reckon 700kg.

However, since my 2m hydraulic transport arrived it has become redundant as this has a levelling blade built in.

BTW the simplest way to lift bales is a bale spike but these puncture the plastic.

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Yeah - I was going to go the way of making simple round forks like on the website that you MSN'd me the other day. Of course there might be problems - the field is very soggy as are the bales - time will tell if I can get forks under them once they are on their sides. The clamping version would be better but to say finances are strained would be an understatement .[/]
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Re the mounting, I don't know if the 6945 has a seperate frame like on the Crystal's which are two 13mm x 250mm flat steel plates running either side of the engine in which holes are drilled. This is strong enough to mount an implement.

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Ok, check your email - I have sent you a photo of my tractor where you can see the holes I describe. I believe this may be where a plate like that was mounted - BUT it is in front of, rather than alongside the engine.

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J-P[/]
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TomZ
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