Bedder/feeder

[Cumbrian Oldtimer]

Hi
Looking at getting a bedder/feeder. Large square straw. Need to blow approx 10m. Haylage, (long single cut meadow) in round bales feed along a barrier. Local offering seems to be McHale 460, Teagle 8500, Kidd 450, Kverneland 863. Seen lots of reviews on McHale but little on Kidd. Any experience, functionality, build quality, longevity,?

 

[Tomo23]

A good thread here from not long ago on McHale Vs Kuhn.

McHale or Kuhn straw chopper.

Have priced both of the above brands, they both come in at £14k. Both seam to have good reviews, both come from.local dealers. Have been told green McHale paint is poor? Our Kuhn mowers have flaked paint so thinking it's all new machinery!

thefarmingforum.co.uk

In my experience they won't handle your long single cut silage very well.

 

[fergus]

Hi, new owners of Kidd here, happy to put you in touch with some other local farmers running Kidd shredders.
Our machines are built in Wiltshire, benefit from a fully welded, 5ft wide body, on the 450, and we have the smaller 4ft6in 330 too.
Let me know If you’d like us to run a machine up to you on demo.
drop me a pm or email me on [email protected]

 

[Pistonbroke]

A good thread here from not long ago on McHale Vs Kuhn.

McHale or Kuhn straw chopper.

Have priced both of the above brands, they both come in at £14k. Both seam to have good reviews, both come from.local dealers. Have been told green McHale paint is poor? Our Kuhn mowers have flaked paint so thinking it's all new machinery!

thefarmingforum.co.uk

In my experience they won't handle your long single cut silage very well.

Our 2022 bales were all too dry for my liking because of the heat and last winter was hard going in the chopper. Our old side shoot kverneland liked it wetter the better,a bale out in about a minute. Dry, forget it. The McHale is a bit better but still blocked it a few times and takes double the power than on wetter stuff

 

[Tomo23]

Our 2022 bales were all too dry for my liking because of the heat and last winter was hard going in the chopper. Our old side shoot kverneland liked it wetter the better,a bale out in about a minute. Dry, forget it. The McHale is a bit better but still blocked it a few times and takes double the power than on wetter stuff

Teagle at work. Chopped bales weren't a problem unless they were particularly high sugar which seemed very 'sticky' and just gum up the chute.

But long unchopped was hopeless. Just used pull it in in lumps and block up, even with full set of sharp angled blades in.

Using a bale unroller now to feed out. The chopper is just for straw.

 

[Fergieman]

Kidd 450 here, only used on straw and we bought it for the wide body.

 

[Cumbrian Oldtimer]

Thanks for replies. Had a McHale demo this morning
Handled the long dry sileage quite well. Getting the straw to feed in steady (bit of a solid, stuck together bale) was bit of an issue so with low throughput and a windy day 1/2 bale seemed to blow in one side of building and out the other! Our building is open sided and we can catch the wind. Not sure a blower is boing to work?

 

[Pistonbroke]

Thanks for replies. Had a McHale demo this morning
Handled the long dry sileage quite well. Getting the straw to feed in steady (bit of a solid, stuck together bale) was bit of an issue so with low throughput and a windy day 1/2 bale seemed to blow in one side of building and out the other! Our building is open sided and we can catch the wind. Not sure a blower is boing to work?

Teagle 9500 has two rotors and will do your straw better but maybe don't like the haylage

 

[Cumbrian Oldtimer]

Teagle at work. Chopped bales weren't a problem unless they were particularly high sugar which seemed very 'sticky' and just gum up the chute.

But long unchopped was hopeless. Just used pull it in in lumps and block up, even with full set of sharp angled blades in.

Using a bale unroller now to feed out. The chopper is just for straw.

Out of interest. What make unroller have you and is it on loader or back linkages. Thinking an unroller would be better for feeding round bales.

 

[Tomo23]

Out of interest. What make unroller have you and is it on loader or back linkages. Thinking an unroller would be better for feeding round bales.

Wessex. It's mounted on a little JCB loadall 520-50.

Slightly offset to reach over troughs.

 

[Pistonbroke]

Out of interest. What make unroller have you and is it on loader or back linkages. Thinking an unroller would be better for feeding round bales.

You could get away with a cheap used chopper for just straw then