Bamford Wuffler

DrWazzock

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Arable Farmer
Location
Lincolnshire
We had a Nicholson "Robin Hood" wuffler. We used to make horse hay for folks with it. Dad reckoned it robbed the rich to pay the poor.
Always used in combination with a vicon walking stick turner. Turn and wuffle. Alright if you'd ages to do the job and liked messing about with castor wheels.
The wuffler didnt like rig and furrow fields. Those belts would squeal like a stuck pig if you got it grounded on a rig.
 
The wuffler is an integral partnof our hay rebaler ,
unroller drops it onto a hydraulic driven belt on which wuffler is sat on top of , so fluffs it up does not have doors on ,and no windrow gaurd on baler ,wuffler is stuffed rigtbup to pick up of baler and fluffs and fires it into baler
if we use it again ,which is doubtfull as got enough straw in (@Spud who is now famous ),😍🤦🏼‍♀️ Idiot cubes ,will take a pic of it
 

DrWazzock

Member
Arable Farmer
Location
Lincolnshire
I often thought the best machine would leave it spread full width but completely invert it every pass on dry ground.
On wet ground it would windrow it to half width and move the windrow onto the dry strip and completely invert it. I think the ELHO wuffler with conveyor belt on the back does that, so wuffler has made a bit of a comeback especially with the straw boys round here.
 
I used to wuffle silage grass in front of a Krone round baler. It was surprising just how many fewer bales there were when the Wuffler had been through the crop before baling. Can only be down to the grass being dryer. As the good Doctor observed , it didn't half wake you up if the mechanism jammed and the belt had to slip :oops:
 

AndersonAgri

Member
Mixed Farmer
Tyres are 5.00 15, i've got 2 needing restoration, an early blue one and a yellow one. Plus another blue one for spares.
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Old Tup

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Agree with single row slow output….
Pretty sure I can remember a near neighbour having a two row Wuffler.
Wasn‘t a Cock Pheasant etc….certain it was a Wuffler.
 

Chuckie

Member
Location
England
Agree with single row slow output….
Pretty sure I can remember a near neighbour having a two row Wuffler.
Wasn‘t a Cock Pheasant etc….certain it was a Wuffler.

We had one that was wider than a normal one, exactly the same otherwise, but wider.

It went in the scrap eventually
 

Bald n Grumpy

Member
Livestock Farmer
Picked a Wuffler up today for a bit of light work next year - can anyone advise what tyre size would it have been on when new?
Will tidy it up and paint it - are there any Paint Codes for the Yellow and Blue?
Guards are all present - need tidying up a bit and some light metal bashing - any advice on what is the best welder for 2 mm thick ?
There is Bamford loose handle with a curve in it in yellow and a roller at one end - is that something to do with changing tines?
Don't suppose the correct PTO guards in blue are available.

Thanks all
Got this if its any help to you
Message me a name and adress and it's yours if you want
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Sparkplug

Member
So, if its easy to block it - why does that happen - too slow PTO speed ? going to fast forward ? wet crop? crop too heavy? belt slipping?
 

Bury the Trash

Member
Mixed Farmer
So, if its easy to block it - why does that happen - too slow PTO speed ? going to fast forward ? wet crop? crop too heavy? belt slipping?
The fundimental problem was that all the crop had to pass through that relativly small restrictive hood of the machine, ok in a light swath and a not too wide a one either .
 

Netherfield

Member
Location
West Yorkshire
The fundimental problem was that all the crop had to pass through that relativly small restrictive hood of the machine, ok in a light swath and a not too wide a one either .
On top of which, because it was really a slow job most people went at too fast forward speed, and as years moved on grass crops got heavier.

Used to pull one with a DB 950, low third or high first were the only two gears you could use and boy could a 950 gearbox whine in those gears.
 

Bury the Trash

Member
Mixed Farmer
On top of which, because it was really a slow job most people went at too fast forward speed, and as years moved on grass crops got heavier.

Used to pull one with a DB 950, low third or high first were the only two gears you could use and boy could a 950 gearbox whine in those gears.
i particularly 'liked' the way when we used it to help dry out rained on straw that after a pass most of the wet (heavier ) stuff ended up right down in under in the bottom of the swath 🤦‍♂️
 

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