Farmer_1994
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How well does a shear bucket handle ground corn or ground barley? Can you feed all ingredients without switching to a regular bucket?
Block cutter to shear grab
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Tarw Coch
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If you mean as in loading in a feeder wagon, it’s perfect, no getting off the seat, everything that goes in the mix is handled with the shear bucket, mine holds approx half ton of blend.
Farmer_1994
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I will need to look into who carries shear buckets in my neck of the woods. Don’t fancy switching buckets and hooking hydraulics up at -30 this winter. Shear bucket could just stay on all winter.
No I had the biggest Shelbourne bucket grab they made,they don’t sell it anymore,possibly not man enough as my loading shovel killed mine despite us substantially beefing it up.
I did order a new Albutt 250 bucket grab last year but a balls up with communication between my dealer and Albutt meant it didn’t arrive so I told them to stick it!?
It was £5500 plus brackets,looked the best built to me as it’s got Hardox tines under the bucket base.
I bought a normal shelbourne grab and have fitted these to my loaders,means I can swap attachments faster.
Tarw Coch
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I see you’re in Canada, when I was doing internet searches for shear buckets I came across a Belgian firm Robert, but the info I could find on their shear buckets was from a form a dealer in Canada, I liked the look of their shear buckets but never found anyone to sell them here.
Jcb pivots will push a house down. Yall be fine
organicguy
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Mine certainly pushed in the co-op wall by the cash point!
That’ll come in handy to buy a shear bucket!
Farmer_1994
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This is what a local equipment dealer had on his yard and is letting us try. Under the plate steel are tines, is the plate steel meant to be used as the likes of a shear bucket?
Id guess saftey guard...
Is it grain tight when closed?
Is it grain tight when closed?
Farmer_1994
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Would leak small grains or ground corn like a sieve... The plate metal folds up and down on hinges so you can run it with just the tines. I tried it on the corn face with the plate metal down and it made a tidier job of it. My only concern is that since it just rests on the tines it may accidentally lift when shoved into a silage face.
2018 Robert GMC250 shear bucket Silage Defacer
Picture showing the 2.5m wide; also in stock the 1.9m, 2.1m and 2.5m wide models. 1.7m and 2.3m wide models are available too. Silage shear bucket will keep bunk face in top condit...
@Farmer_1994 How far off Ontario are you?
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My shelbourne was spot on with bales,cut in half drop then pull the wrap off.?
Tarw Coch
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IIRC the pro dig opens wider than others so makes it better suited to bales as well as its ability to hold onto net and wrap but as I haven’t experience of others that’s just a theoretical advantage
Kingofgrass
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Work very well,might have to get off one in ten bales to grab a little bit of wrap or net
Correctly sharpened and with the right operator there is no reason why a shear crab should not leave the face as clean as with block cutter we made the same move about 25 years ago when the parmiter block cutter came to the end of its life and was replaced with a parmiter block cutter
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