Bales into diet feeder

[hally]

Looking for some opinions
Recently bought a small diet feeder fir feeding bales out to our cattle and sheep, so far going grand except that the tanco bale shear we have got is not working in that despite being 4 or 5 foot above the feeder often the bale turning on the tub seems to grab the plastic or more often the net and take it into the machine . Dont like to see net in my mix so thinking of getting rid but how would i lift a chopped bale onto the feeder without it falling to bits halfway up?
Looked at a keltic but too big and numb around our sheds.
We also have to handle square straw bales aswell
Tried splitting the bale on the floor then loading but too messy for my liking on a windy day it blows all over the tractor. Tia.

 

[Hummin-Cummins]

Pull net off on floor, break open with tines and then load with the bucket? Otherwise its pull the film off first and then cut the net while its held over the mixer but than can be a tad dangerous depending how you go about it.

 

[Fendt516profi]

Buy the Keltec and a spike to handle straw

 

[paul&mandy]

Do everything on the floor then its easier to chuck in what you need. Can happily mix square bales in a non bale keenan that way, just takes a lot of rotations to chop it all up

 

[Fendt516profi]

Or buy a bale unroller take plastic and net off on floor then lift it over feeder and unroll bale into feeder would think it would put less stress on feeder than having big lumps dropping in

 

[Fendt516profi]

Hustler SL350

A bit of age to it but in perfectly good working order, only for sale as bought a new one.

www.classifieds.farm

 

[hally]

Problem is all these suggestions mean dropping off an attachment when we want to add a grabfull of straw to the diet or drop a few slices off in the odd shed we have that’s not accessible to the blower. That’s time consuming when putting in a few bales a day. Would a bucket grab do all those jobs but without dropping off attachments and not allowing silage to drop everywhere? I can’t be doing with bits of silage blowing everywhere.

 

[hally]

Hustler SL350

A bit of age to it but in perfectly good working order, only for sale as bought a new one.

www.classifieds.farm

Be a hell of a weight for my little 4ton Kramer not to mention the cost.

 

[hally]

Buy the Keltec and a spike to handle straw

Problem with the keltic is we have a couple of polytunnels where we drive in and drop bales into ring feeders, the height of those things could be interesting to say the least.

 

[Fendt516profi]

Problem is all these suggestions mean dropping off an attachment when we want to add a grabfull of straw to the diet or drop a few slices off in the odd shed we have that’s not accessible to the blower. That’s time consuming when putting in a few bales a day. Would a bucket grab do all those jobs but without dropping off attachments and not allowing silage to drop everywhere? I can’t be doing with bits of silage blowing everywhere.

How do you add straw to diet feeder now with tanco

 

[hally]

How do you add straw to diet feeder now with tanco

We always have a big square bale opened so just grab a few slices just like a grab and tip it in. Tbh it’s the net wrap getting in that’s bothering me, they seem able to segregate the plastic but we never find the net in the feed passages

 

[Fendt516profi]

Be a hell of a weight for my little 4ton Kramer not to mention the cost.

Got one of these on my JCB robot. Cost Can't be alot more than bale shear with bale unroller you can put as much as you like in feeders then go to next one

 

[hally]

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Got one of these on my JCB robot. Cost Can't be alot more than bale shear with bale unroller you can put as much as you like in feeders then go to next one

Actually I see they are only 500kg so lighter than I expected but still means dropping it on and off to go to straw

 

[bert]

Looking for some opinions
Recently bought a small diet feeder fir feeding bales out to our cattle and sheep, so far going grand except that the tanco bale shear we have got is not working in that despite being 4 or 5 foot above the feeder often the bale turning on the tub seems to grab the plastic or more often the net and take it into the machine . Dont like to see net in my mix so thinking of getting rid but how would i lift a chopped bale onto the feeder without it falling to bits halfway up?
Looked at a keltic but too big and numb around our sheds.
We also have to handle square straw bales aswell
Tried splitting the bale on the floor then loading but too messy for my liking on a windy day it blows all over the tractor. Tia.

Sack diet feeder off and shove bales against the feed barrier

 

[Fendt516profi]

put it on floor pull rope and back out you've got spikes mines automatic

 

[jackstor]

Grab Buckets | Albutt Attachments

www.albutt.com

 

[hally]

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put it on floor pull rope and back out you've got spikes mines automatic

Yeah we used to have one, traded it for the Mchale straw blower hitch we have used to do both the feeding and bedding for a good few years. Can’t pick up slices of straw though and if we have to load that, unravel the bale into the feeder then change to a grab to add straw I will get bought else done.

 

[hally]

Grab Buckets | Albutt Attachments

www.albutt.com

Do you think you could easily pick up a bale with one of those?

 

[Fendt516profi]

Yeah we used to have one, traded it for the Mchale straw blower hitch we have used to do both the feeding and bedding for a good few years. Can’t pick up slices of straw though and if we have to load that, unravel the bale into the feeder then change to a grab to add straw I will get bought else done.

Never tried straw but I can pull silage back on to it from a heap

 

[Fendt516profi]

Kramer KT447 Telehandler - Ripon Farm Services

www.riponfarmservices.com

Save you having to swap attachments just get on another machine. I know a farmer with 4loader tractors