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Rod5300 
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 Topic: Hay Fork for D 14
Posted: 17 Nov 2019 at 8:03am |
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Good Morning
I need some help. I would like to come up with a way to use a hay fork on my D 14
I have some 4 X 4 rolls of hay that this tractor would handle fine.
My question is has anyone converted a fork to fit the snap couple lift if so how did you do this.
I thank you for your help and time
Rodd
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jaybmiller
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Posted: 17 Nov 2019 at 8:19am |
 I made this 'carry all' in 2000,I put forklift forks on it to haul heavy logs. Something similar for bales should work fine. Crazy thing is a HAND bent ,in vice, the EYE from 3/4 bar . Uprights should be shorter so it'll lift higher, yeah on the 'todo list'....
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exSW
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Posted: 17 Nov 2019 at 8:27am |
Find a junk piece of SC equipment use the frame for a base Buy just the spears from TSC and connect the dots
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DiyDave
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Posted: 17 Nov 2019 at 5:52pm |
A word of advice, from experience, here. However you make the frame, use a tapered solid bale spear, not he ones that look like a sharpened, thick pencil, they have a tendency to turn bales into an ice cream cone shaped mess, that resists being picked up by anything short of a grapple!
here's an example of a good one, socket sold separately... 
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Joe(TX)
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Posted: 17 Nov 2019 at 9:41pm |
One of the D19's I bought had a hay spike clamped directly onto the snap coupler lift arms.
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exSW
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Posted: 18 Nov 2019 at 6:02am |
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That's got me thinking if you could take the standard TSC county line 3 pt ,mount it upside down make a link to the SC and relocate the spear pocket.
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jaybmiller
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Posted: 18 Nov 2019 at 6:13am |
Ok was curious....pretty easy to adapt this, though if you've got steel, maybe just buy the spear alone ?
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Posted: 18 Nov 2019 at 6:20am |
The three point one is cheaper , heavier built and can be used CAT2 or 3
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