Winter Hay Bale Deliveries / Using Homemade ATV Bale Mover 

This is my second year using it and I'd guess it's move close to 200 bales so far. Works great unless it's extremely muddy, then I have to wait for frozen ground.

Do you got cowz

Thanks! It's working good so far.

That's awesome!

Good to know about the tongue, I was planning to extend it this summer. As far as the clutch, the Sportsman is rated to pull 1200 pounds according to the specs., I can see how over time it will wear it down possible thought. I am about to release another video on this cart in the next couple days. It shows a closer look at how everything is put together. Thanks for the input, it's much appreciated!

I've seen loaders used many times to move bales but not locally. The farms around me have tractors but they only have the 3 point spears on the back, no loader spears. That's always made it trick to unload, especially the balage (completely wrapped and heavy as hell). You are right though, I think this bale mover will save me from rut fixing in the Spring.

Yes, I recognize your username from my bee channel, thanks for subbing over here too! The hay cart has been very handy on the farm. I've used it 2 full winters now to move our bales, it's moved over 500 bales now and a lot of those moves were a 1/4 mile or so away. The only thing I've had to do is replace my winch. I added a bigger one and it made a huge difference in lift time.

Trust me, I understand control your hay quality but all you have to do is be picky with who you buy from not buy equipment. lol I understand also that people like me, need people like you to make quality hay. Thanks! Now I am curious, Do you have a dove-tailed trailer for those that don't own a tractor? That setup works really well for us to roll the bales off.

I do not own a gooseneck trailer yet looking for one, as of right now everyone that buys rolls lives within a few miles so I deliver 2 at a time with tractor or a couple come pick up

In my area everyone worries about quantity of hay they don't really understand qaulity...they all tease me cause I cut so early, I get about 30 to 35 percent less hay per cut but I get 1 to 2 more cuts, and the hay tests out almost 60 percent higher than the others I've had tested ...so me and my customers are happy, and so are the cows

Great idea! I would love to discuss this more trough email if your interested? If so, email me at honeycomb_hill@yahoo.com

Thanks. This should save me from fixing ruts from a tractor in the Spring.

There is always haters my friend. I have them on the beekeeping channel as well. Over there though, one of them is my cousin. My channel growth kinda pee'ed in his cheerios and he hasn't been happy about it for 2 years. We started making videos at the same time but his channel flopped. lol (He needs to grow up) As mentioned before, I follow Greg Judy who uses no equipment (except and atv) so I am working to make as much of that possible as I can. I would love to see more people realize they do not need expensive equipment to make a living farming. As a matter of fact they will probably make more $$ not having equip. payments. I just upgraded to this ATV about 3 months ago. Up until then I was using a little 2 wheel drive Kawasaki Bayou 220. lol I have to give it credit as I have put it through hell pulling and pushing things over the years and it still runs great. The Polaris Sportsman seems decent so far, plenty of power and it's 4x4. I just added my canvas cab, heated hand grips and heated thumb accelerator. They are awesome. Maybe I should do a video on them.

Ha, I can always count on some of my relatives to be the biggest wet blanket in my life. I think there is no one else in the world that would love to see me fail more than some people I'm related to. Jealous hearted trash is what they are. Gregg uses whatever equipment he deems necessary, he's just a minimalist and he's good at that and it works for him. It's smart for sure. I get by on as little as possible but a row cropper just can't get by without quite a bit of equipment and most of mine is paid for so I don't think that conflicts with Greg's format. I do have the "new truck" problem he speaks about, lol. My old one was starting to nickel and dime me to death and down time is expensive as well. I don't buy a new truck very often though and it's a work tool so I can justify that one. A vid on the heated accessories would be good, I always wondered how those worked.

Well thanks, I have moved over 100 round bales with it this winter and each of them is roughly 1000 pounds. I will make another video that shows more detail to my creation.

I've though about putting together a ebook or something on building this cart. Just watching the video does not cover all the basis to building one, trust me. lol I tried and it's taken a bunch of extra work to figure out how to reduce leveraging the bale off the ground without lifting rear of atv off the ground. This project has kept me busy in between farm chores trying to get everything just right!

Send a link of this video to can-am off-road and john deere channels , let the bidding begin !

I greatly appreciate that, thank you! That would be awesome to have one of them contact me about the bale mover. I'll keep you posted if I hear anything from either of them. What the weather like for you now? We had our first freeze the other day but it only last 1 day, I am sure your about to send us some more though. lol

Grazing Acres Farm have you heard anything?

I know nothing about filing a patent but have though about an ebook or something to help others build one. I always though patents were expensive, do you know?

With online applications they're around $5000 with search. I'd suggest taking this to the ATV company as an addon. Call the company and talk to product development NOW before it gets out to public knowledge.

Good idea but this is not the first one ever made. If you search RU-vid or Google you'll see other styles.

And wow the patent is expensive!

@@GrazingAcresFarm as a welder i have filed many patent in my life, and no it is cheap, between 100 and 500 in Canada any way

This cart works great. I wasn't wanting to invest in a tractor either. It took a few different tries to get it working well. I have used it for 2 winters now and have moved over 200 round bales with it. I see a couple additions I want to add but haven't taken the time.

I am not sure about the Fund Me thing. I see people doing it, but am not sure how well it works. I did not know that they where rated to haul that much. I moved to Tennessee and a couple of years ago and the thing that I found odd was the hay spikes on the back of pickup trucks. I would think that a hay spike on a ATV would go good here since the farms are smaller than where I grew up.

I have actually seen the bale spears on truck around here as well, pretty cool idea. I don't see very many but a few here and there. Today's utility Atv's are able handle a good amount of weight. They are building them to be work horses.

The atv is 4 wheel drive but I have hardly needed it so far. I imagine once we get snow it will be required. I did not reinforce the atv at all, what you see is stock. This creation has helped me a lot so far and I am sure it will continue to do the same.

Very impressive. Good job. Last year i hooked up a trailer to the four wheeler that was meant for a truck. it had 5 bails on it and but it had to be done cause cows were hungry and mooooing like crazy..(accidently left my gate locked so the trailer was unable to make it through and parked outside the gate) it was hard on the four wheeler and had to go in 4 wheel drive just to move. I got in the gate and then had a slight incline and the four wheeler wasn't able to really go much further, kept spinning out. So I stopped and pushed most of the bails off there. I didnt like doing that too much cause i know that one was hard on the fourwheeler. But it was a trooper that time.lol. &the cows were happy.

Oh my, that sounds exciting, I have had a few of them days. I hate when I have to drop bales right inside a gate, the cattle always make it muddy this time of year and it's a problem until Spring. What size is your atv? Mine is a Polaris Sportsman 500 and it's rated to pull around 1100 pounds and it's belt driven which impressed me. I just put some really deep treated mud tires on and that has helped a lot with avoiding 4 wheel drive.

Grazing Acres Farm I have a Yamaha big bear 400, and it has a wentch in the front but I recently broke off the hook. The twined cable holding the hook was beginning to split and eventually broke. I don't have the owners manual so I'm not too sure what I am "able to haul". ..and when I hauled that trailer it was the (5) big round bales and a hay wagon.

Have you tried to find the atv manual on Google? I was able to find a link on a Polaris Forum and it was free. Good luck!

Not sure right off hand, just make it wider than the biggest bail you will be moving.

Been running this beef operation for 6 years, last year I fed 250 rounds bales with this cart and still don't see a need for a tractor just my atv.