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Attach Bale Unroller to ATV

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What happens here

The presenter demonstrates the ease of attaching the bale unroller to the ATV. He highlights that the unroller is well-balanced and can be lifted with two fingers. The connection is made using a 2-inch hitch ball on the back of the ATV, secured with a coupling. He advises using a safety chain if transporting on public roads and mentions the Kolpin rack on the ATV which slightly extends the hitch point. Ensuring the hitch connection is solid is critical for preventing detachment, which could cause damage to the ATV's chassis or drivetrain components, potentially impacting systems like the cooling lines running near the hitch.

Goal: Demonstrate how to easily connect the lightweight bale unroller to the ATV's hitch, noting the importance of secure connections for safe operation.

Tools and materials

  • ATV (Honda Foreman 500)
  • Curt Manufacturing Setup
  • Greg Judy Bale Unroller
  • Hitch Ball (2-inch)
  • Kolpin Rack
  • Safety Chain

What they say

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into action and the whole reason we purchased atvs here on the farm is to have a lighter lower footprint on the land during the wet season and they're super handy to have so this is a greg judy balin roller it's manufactured by reject ranch manufacturing in missouri greg is a great friend of mine greg taught me so much even though i only had a one day visit with greg this year he taught me so much about regenerative ranching if you don't follow greg judy's channel check it out i'll post a link at the end of this video and you can just click it and go over and check out greg's ranching operation he's running 300 and something head of cattle over about 14 to 1600 acres it all changes it's always a constant change so even on our farm it's a constant change so this is the great judy bailon roller it is a very very well balanced two fingers right here boom very very well balanced machine okay this thing will pick up a hay bale and what we're going to do first of all is attach it to the atv so i'm going to roll it on up here and we'll get hooked up with two fingers i can pick it up okay we're going to lay it up here on the ball and this is a two inch ball here on the back of our atv we'll post a link if you guys don't have one of these setups this is a curt manufacturing setup on the back of the atv which brings the ball back about that far to get it out from under this coping rack right here so you have a safety chain right here if you're going to haul it down the road i totally suggest you use the safety chain for this video i'm leaving the safety chain up because i'm not really worried about if it rolls off down the hill it's just going to get hung in the fence i'm not worried about that if you're going down the road which you could use this to haul hay all over the place check with your local municipality see if it's legal for you to do that okay now we'll talk about what this does and how it all works in the back let me apologize to you because you're going to have some shadows the sun is low in the sky right now it's always low in the sky this time of year so what we've got here is the bail and roller itself has a hand crank with a strap right here okay you release a little flip switch right here and you can lower your strap or you can raise it up and what we want to do is we want to get these pins lined up with the center of the hay bale and i want to show you all this before we put it in a hay bale just so you know how it all operates so again to raise…

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