Hay stacking apparatus
Assignee1243653 B.C. Ltd.
InventorsAnthony Erich Koeck, Ernie Koeck
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Abstract
An apparatus for stacking hay bales comprises a base frame securable to a motorized vehicle, a plurality of tines pivotally connected to the base frame extending to free distal ends, the tines defining locations therebetween spaced to correspond to a bale of hay and a push bar extending parallel to the base frame and movable between a retracted position proximate to the base frame to an extended position along the plurality of tines to push the hay bales from therebetween. In operation, the apparatus is used by passing at least two of a plurality of tines to each side of a hay bale, lifting the hay bale by a platform extending from a base of the plurality of tines and pushing the hay bales off the tines with the push bar.
Claims15
An apparatus for stacking hay bales comprising:
- a base frame securable to a motorized vehicle;
- a plurality of tines pivotally connected to the base frame at a tine pivot, each of the plurality of tines extending to free distal ends, the tines defining locations therebetween spaced to correspond to a bale of hay, wherein each of the plurality of tines are freely pivotally supported by the base frame so as to permit independent rotation of each of the plurality of tines;
- a track pivotally supported by the base frame at a track pivot adjacent to and above the plurality of tines, wherein the track pivot is independent of the tine pivot for its corresponding tine such that the track is rotatable independently of the tine with respect to the base frame;
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- a push bar supported on the track extending parallel to the base frame and movable between a retracted position proximate to the base frame to an extended position along the track to push the hay bales from therebetween.
A method for stacking hay bales comprising:
- passing at least two of a plurality of independently rotatably supported tines to each side of a hay bale wherein the tines are pivotally supported by a base frame at a tine pivot;
- lifting the hay bale by a platform extending from a base of the plurality of tines;
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- pushing the hay bales off the tines with a push bar movable from a retracted position adjacent to a base frame supporting the plurality of tines to a positon proximate to the distal end of the plurality of tines, and
- wherein the push bar is supported by a track pivotally connected to the base frame at a track pivot so as to position the track adjacent to and above the plurality of tines such that the track is rotatable independently of the tine with respect to the base frame.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.