Bale Grab For Moving Log Bags

[Welsh cleaning services]

If you already have a grab or muck fork attachment,you can slide longer sleeves over two of them,then just park up so that the straps line up with two going on shorter fork tines and the two furthest straps on the longer tines.

This method also prevents the cutting action that pallet tines have on the strap handles.

[Conor Wright]

I tried this. It was a disaster, did damage to the bags, squeezed logs out, deformed the bags making it harder to stack them etc. Literally gave up after half a dozen bags. Now I just put them on pallets, helps airflow too.

Maybe if you had solid sides on the grab instead of fingers it would work better. It wasn't my grab (friendly farmer nextdoor) so couldn't get the welder out. 

[coppice cutter]

I thought you meant the open/close type with two tines, which does work as you just hook two straps over each tine same as you would with pallet forks.

 

Can't see a bale squeeze working on them as the bag won't retain it's shape like a bale would.

[coppice cutter]

On further thought, what I have done is lift a bag with a hook.

 

It's a fair stretch to get all four eyes of the bag pulled in to the centre, and you need a good lift height (I done it with the digger), but it does work.