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Was nice on Saturday morning!

Just bought a second hand wagon torro 5100, we lost 50 acres of away ground used to chop, it wouldn't have made sense before

Your right it is only slight but it does mean they don't wear so much in work at the tips, so when you sharpen the stone gets worn a tiny bit more on the outside by the un worn bit at the tips before it starts on the rest of the blade, it's not much but does add up, then you need to square the...

I'm stopping using my sh40 after 23 seasons (3 different choppers!) so have quite a lot of spare parts. Make sure to measure it, I think my trailed sh40 was 9' wide? Was told years ago you can get more grass per hour through a pottinger but more a day through a day through mengle as you don't...

I'd agree with what's said above, but add. The blades are always going to wear more away from the tips as the tips don't really do any chopping, this is especially true in stoney fields. I sharpen mine as often as I can to try and counter this, waiting for a trailer etc. The busatis blades are...

All this chat about air brakes reminded me of a friend now gone. Went to start his cattle lorry early one morning, would go. It's on a steep hill so he thought he'd run it off, no air so that didn't work. Went and got some jump leads got it started, put the jump leads back, comes back, no lorry...

We use a suzler piranha macerator pump for similar sort of thing, will chop/pump lumps of silage etc, not cheap about 1200 quid last time I think, get a 3 phase pump if you can.

Used the silostop orange cling film last few years, does seem a bit tougher than cling seal if your taking it on and off a few times, visqueen black sheet on top, heavy net and gravel bags. Hadn't looked at the price for this year yet tho! Tried the double layer stuff (think silo stop max?)...

Not spread slurry/fym here yet, I'm thinking dirty water on everything and spread slurry after early (for us!) first cut and hope it's gone by 2nd ? :oops::oops:

Sorry wrote that this morning before all the other replies, it's the pitching that bothers me a bit. The rolling is taken care of by the swivel, think tis a choice between a reasonable bit of slop on a draw bar pin or a ball. It's a torro I'm thinking of, I'll measure up the draw bar on the...

The one I've been quoted for fits in the original slot the drawbar was in, I haven't checked the length yet but if they are prone to breaking I can't see much advantage. Our ground is typical mid Devon if your not going up or down your between the two, which is where the damage gets done.

I know this is a old thread, but I'm considering my options, I've a 8770 I'd like to pull a forage wagon with. It only has a drawbar (a hefty one at that!) no pick up hitch, the wagon has a swivel hitch on, will I regret dropping the huge pin through and using like that or should I invest in a...

That's beautiful, has the earth been riveted on with lump hammer

I had the super short chop intake gears for mine, memory bit hazy but I think around 5mm! I kept the blowing paddles in as well as the serrated paddles and ran everything as fast as it would go, 1150 on the shaft I think, high speed input on the PTO gear box on forager, I always thought a...

I've got 6 serrated paddles and tips I'd sell? Have the serrated plate that goes in the bottom too. Fit sh40h, have done maize with sh40h 190hp on it about 10 acres a day, you add so much friction to the system it does use quite a bit of diesel. Will easily do 50-60 acres on grass with same machine.