Best way to bag up/feed cake?

[crashbox]

Hello all,

I'm after some thoughts on the best way to bag up/bucket up cake. We have a lot of dairy youngstock/stores in remote sites, which are fed cake most of the year.

So we have a few tonnes of cake blown into shipping container, bag it up daily and haul it round to the barns/fields. Pros, container is dry and vermin proof. Cons, bagging up is time consuming, and dusty (even with good cake).

Does anyone have a better set up? For example a good hopper?

Cheers

 

[som farmer]

we have 5 different sheds to feed, same as you, in bulk, telehandler bucket of cake, and drive round and so many little buckets per pen. Tip the rest back on pile.

 

[Courier]

Bagging up with a shovel is a 2 man job - If you have big hands then simply pushing cake into a bag is actually quicker per man hour.

 

[D.S.S18]

could you get a symms bin with a bagging off shoot?

 

[michael N123]

We have decent sized buckets 2 buckets per bag and a one man job filling them

I watched my friend fill bags with a shovel and it looked ridiculous

 

[Northeastfarmer]

Do it like me...2 ton a day

 

[bobk]

Blow it in a tipping trailer .

 

[milkloss]

It’s a pretty thankless task. We have a bag holder/hopper type thing but two big buckets and you’re unclamping and changing bags. I’m thinking of chopping the top off an old grain bin or mixer we have that’s got a treadle operated Shute for bag filling. It was an old vertical feed mixer, it is red thing with an intake hopper on the ground and an auger up the middle for mixing.

 

[davidroberts30]

get a 3 gallon bucket and remove the bottom of it
slide the bucket into the bag
then hold the rim of bucket and top of bag on each side with both hands and then scoop up cake
2 scoops generally fills a bag enough

 

[Highland Mule]

Hello all,

I'm after some thoughts on the best way to bag up/bucket up cake. We have a lot of dairy youngstock/stores in remote sites, which are fed cake most of the year.

So we have a few tonnes of cake blown into shipping container, bag it up daily and haul it round to the barns/fields. Pros, container is dry and vermin proof. Cons, bagging up is time consuming, and dusty (even with good cake).

Does anyone have a better set up? For example a good hopper?

Cheers

Get someone else to do it for you. T'was always my job as a child - filled 30-40 bags a night after school.

 

[ricky_rascal]

I thought I was the only one bagging up either rolled barley or pellets! Going to give the bottomless bucket method a go

 

[Bill dog]

Do it like me...2 ton a day

Yea gods ! ?
I only bag off a dozen a day , but it keeps me fit ( or speeds up the farmers lung !)
My brother bought a bagging off bin from macaree engineering. Think their web site is vmacsilos .
It’s a great bit of kit. It would be well worth a look !

 

[Boydvalley]

Bulk bin then straight into old sheep snacker. Easy to bucket out of. Anything can tow it. Could put a bagging Shute on the back.
Our mill will blow straight into a ton bag with a draw string bottom. Use that to fill snacker if you don’t want a bin.

 

[Boydvalley]

Because I can do cheap this how I do it. Hopper Filled by tote bag. Holds about 700kg.

Used to bag out tote bag with various sized buckets. Now use the old bag weigher using more conc. was under feeding them.
Water filled spray can for counter weights. All expense spared.
Only do about 6 ton a year so not worth spending much but wouldn’t be without it.

 

[Chae1]

Bagging up with a shovel is a 2 man job - If you have big hands then simply pushing cake into a bag is actually quicker per man hour.

Thats how we do it.

 

[Nithsdale]

Bagging up with a shovel is a 2 man job - If you have big hands then simply pushing cake into a bag is actually quicker per man hour.

No it's not a 2 man job. Shovel in 1 hand, bag in the other is very easy and quick.
Also if you consistently 'load' your shovel you know how much feed your putting in each bag/feeding out.

The other way is pure guess work

 

[Gedd]

Do it like me...2 ton a day

New shovel required

 

[hally]

We have several 1.5ton Vmac tote bins around the steading, fill them weekly with telehandler from a couple of Collinson bins. Each have a cake Shute into a bag then into the trough simples

 

[ricky_rascal]

No it's not a 2 man job. Shovel in 1 hand, bag in the other is very easy and quick.
Also if you consistently 'load' your shovel you know how much feed your putting in each bag/feeding out.

The other way is pure guess work

Shoval in one hand and bag in the other is my preferred method. Its good excersise I suppose though do wear a mask most of the time.

Few years ago trading standards lady called by to do a mill and mix inspection. "I need to see the mixer" she said to which I replied "you're talking to it though I can get you the ally shoval if you want"

There's always an easier way but generally means spending money

 

[spin cycle]

Do it like me...2 ton a day

bloody hell ........blow into a trailer then tip into ibc with top cut off....ferry round with back forks on tractor?