Block cutter to shear grab

[Farmer_1994]

Could try a defacer?

We use a Beyoncé Shear King. A man’s tool







(Beyoncé = Albutt for those wondering)

Have looked at a few farms that had rotary defacers, does a good job on corn silage but I was not impressed with the face on grass and alfalfa piles.

 

[Farmer_1994]

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That is a minty silage face there!

 

[Kingofgrass]

That is a minty silage face there!

That’s not at its best tbf,massive time saving when getting the wrap off bales,plus once it’s closed it doesn’t drop anything on the floor while moving around unlike a shear grab.you don’t get that inoying bit sticking on the tines and there’s no tines to snap bend break(bloody inoying having to go buy expensive tines and then swapping them)we run it on a merlo 3.2ton lift and it’s fine might be a tad heavy for a loader tractor

 

[Milkcow365]

What sort of dingo dollars in a prodig

 

[Fergieman]

How do you operate the bucket grab at the face, can you push it into the silage? I have a shear grab with hardox tines and its not easy pushed into the face.

 

[milkloss]

How do you operate the bucket grab at the face, can you push it into the silage? I have a shear grab with hardox tines and its not easy pushed into the face.

Was wondering the same. It’s sometimes hard to get the sides of the tined shear grab to cut in round here despite being sharp-as.

 

[pappuller]

Was wondering the same. It’s sometimes hard to get the sides of the tined shear grab to cut in round here despite being sharp-as.

me too, prodig sheargrab is hard enough to get in

 

[bigw]

I find if you tip the bucket forward a bit when its pushed into the face it works best. It takes a big bite but not a deep block like a shear grab. We had a shear grab before and wouldn't go back to one.

 

[Barmyfarmer]

About £4250 for the 2.2 metre model prodig with bale wrap catcher, I like the look of the beyonce as bald Rick calls it but it's closer to £6k

 

[Tarw Coch]

I like the look of the beyonce as bald Rick calls it but it's closer to £6k

Shear bucket or grab?

 

[Barmyfarmer]

Shear bucket or grab?

Bucket

 

[The Agrarian]

I've seen videos and it would appear folks are taking a bit of a run up to get it driven in to the face, especially grass. Don't really like the sound of that. Sounds like it would be hard on a machine, pins and bushes and metal fatigue, as well as tyre wear. We get 800 kgs of grass in our 6'4" shear grab, no pushing.

 

[buffalo_soldier]

Don't have any spanners or hammers loose in the cab

Beyonce here.

 

[Tarw Coch]

Bucket

That’ll be the AP shear bucket then, I had one to try end of last winter, looks better made than the prodig but it has a double thickness base making it poorer to push into grass silage and the blade didn’t open as wide so couldn’t get as big a bite, I was struggling to get half as much in it as my prodig. Wasn’t a problem with wholecrop which is easier to push into, infact it was better with its solid front blade, something that I feel would be an improvement on the prodig but don’t seem interested in doing despite the fact their shear grabs have a solid front.

 

[Barmyfarmer]

That’ll be the AP shear bucket then, I had one to try end of last winter, looks better made than the prodig but it has a double thickness base making it poorer to push into grass silage and the blade didn’t open as wide so couldn’t get as big a bite, I was struggling to get half as much in it as my prodig. Wasn’t a problem with wholecrop which is easier to push into, infact it was better with its solid front blade, something that I feel would be an improvement on the prodig but don’t seem interested in doing despite the fact their shear grabs have a solid front.

Think it's £250 extra to have solid front on the prodig shear genius as an option

 

[Tarw Coch]

Think it's £250 extra to have solid front on the prodig shear genius as an option

It wasn’t an option when I had mine and as I said, they didn’t seem to think it necessary when i spoke to them at a show afterwards, perhaps they did take notice of my feedback after all.

 

[Ducati899]

The blade on the bucket edge goes into grass no problem,I run a shelbourne bucket

 

[NI farmer]

That was my concern
What size could I push into grass with a jcb310s
Like being able to open bales as well

 

[Ducati899]

Honestly they take no more pushing than a grab into a hard clamp of grass

 

[Tarw Coch]

Honestly they take no more pushing than a grab into a hard clamp of grass

I wouldn’t entirely agree with that regarding my prodig but it isn’t a major issue either.