Battery powered cubicle bedder.

[shumungus]

I'm not a dairy farmer so make it simple.
Àm looking into buying a walk behind push along cubicle bedder for doing top up bedding in poultry houses, know nothing about them but the principle of them looks to be easier than doing it by hand up and down 300ft sheds.
What is available out there, what does it cost, pros/cons. Will be using shavings and milled straw.
Any help greatly appreciated.

 

[Blue.]

I'm not a dairy farmer so make it simple.
Àm looking into buying a walk behind push along cubicle bedder for doing top up bedding in poultry houses, know nothing about them but the principle of them looks to be easier than doing it by hand up and down 300ft sheds.
What is available out there, what does it cost, pros/cons. Will be using shavings and milled straw.
Any help greatly appreciated.

http://www.ag-products.co.uk/ag-maxi/

 

[bigw]

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Flingk Machinebouw is gespecialiseerd in het ontwerp en de productie van machines voor de agrarische sector en grondverzet industrie.

flingk.com

 

[dowcow]

Two fairly similar looking products there. Also interested in seeing his other questions answered though.... particularly a rough cost?

 

[SolwayFarmer]

Two fairly similar looking products there. Also interested in seeing his other questions answered though.... particularly a rough cost?

Just bought an Ag Maxi. £1450 plus vat. Used it for a few weeks and seems to be a good job. Certainly makes the sawdust go further.

 

[buffalo_soldier]

How far do you want it to throw? The battery type will only go a couple of feet.

 

[dowcow]

We bed up twice a day rather than build up from the front and scrape back, so the back of the bed is the priority in this sort of use. Anyone used one with Envirobed type products? Paper and paper/sawdust mix?

 

[shumungus]

How far do you want it to throw? The battery type will only go a couple of feet.

Ideally a couple of metres as need something that could be pushed a long between feed / drink lines when birds are in the house to re-bed area below drinkers etc.
So it has to be small, manoeuvrable and quiet.

 

[shumungus]

I see the Flingk is 24v using two batteries.
Does anyone know if it throws further or lasts longer than the AG?

 

[Agrifool]

Flingk is a better spreader than the AG maxi, you can alter the pitch of spread and also spread left or right. But even all these battery machines are noisy to some degree so not sure how they would work in a poultry house.

 

[Farmer Keith]

We bed up twice a day rather than build up from the front and scrape back, so the back of the bed is the priority in this sort of use. Anyone used one with Envirobed type products? Paper and paper/sawdust mix?

Our AG maxi would be as good as useless with paper in there, I can’t see it flowing through the hole in the base of the hopper, great machine with sawdust and lime however.

 

[coomoo]

I see the Flingk is 24v using two batteries.
Does anyone know if it throws further or lasts longer than the AG?

And a rough price looks a great wee machine.

 

[bigw]

And a rough price looks a great wee machine.

£2800ish