Clamp silage through a bale unroller

[Kernowkid]

Anyone putting clamp silage through a bale unroller? Seen the sheep man from Orkney doing it on YouTube. Looked to work but couldn’t see what machine he was using exactly. Don’t want a feeder wagon and not keen to go round bales. Looking for a simple way of feeding clamp silage either on a handler or tractor

 

[tr250]

A teagle straw chopper type machine will put it out but what scale are you talking? Could you not just tip it in front with loader bucket or shear grab

 

[Mc115reed]

Old kevernland feed box is what you want

 

[Al R]

Richard western feed box sort of thing work?

 

[Ben B]

We have one of these, and we defently could if we wanted too. I think if you had any type of chain-type unroller you would be able to feed silage out with it. How much silage you fit in there might be the issues.

 

[Kernowkid]

Cheers for the reply’s I’ll have a look at the feed box. Already have a teagle tomahawk. They don’t like clamp, too hard on the gear.
tempted with bale unroller as would be handy for feeding out bales in summer

 

[Kernowkid]

Also need it mounted as one of the shed would be a nightmare to reverse a trailer machine into

 

[Al R]

The problem I foresee with a chain and slat bale unroller is the silage getting wrapped under all the chains and causing problems but it may be ok I don’t know enough about them I’ve only seen videos of them working. The Wessex one looks good though and you can have a straw attachment for it (Wessex crossfire?)

 

[Top Tip.]

Feed everything with the grab bucket. Simple and effective.

 

[Al R]

@Kernowkid not sure if you’ve seen this but there’s plenty of options, might be worth phoning some to see about clamp silage compatibility

Bale unrollers: Options and prices - Farmers Weekly

With every new round baler that comes along, manufacturers have invariably managed to produce a machine that crams more material at greater density into

www.fwi.co.uk

 

[JD-Kid]

how yer going to fill it ???

to feed it out yer want a solid floor with chain drive then a side chain that is on it's own drive so you can move the floor slow and faster side chains

not that had to make realy just getting the drive on floor strong to shift the weight of silage and over riding toggle switch to run side chain motors

used to have a huge feeder years a go like this
usf-12-12m³-universal-feeder
just the front bit is kinda what im thinking

 

[HarryB97]

Emily attachments do a huge range of mixer and auger buckets for silage and straights.

 

[Gerbert]

Sounds like you need one of these (ignore the forklift). This one has a knive which makes it alot more complicated but leaves a tidy face on the clamp.

 

[Ben B]

Something like that would feed silage out no problem. Wouldn't hold much but you could do it.

 

[Treg]

Cheers for the reply’s I’ll have a look at the feed box. Already have a teagle tomahawk. They don’t like clamp, too hard on the gear.
tempted with bale unroller as would be handy for feeding out bales in summer

I think it would depend on how you load it & probably would only manage 1 grab full at a time.
I have a hustler unroller really good machine but would say it doesn't like short grass round bales , if the bale falls apart it struggles to keep it rolling, well formed long stem stuff rolls perfectly.
If silage was loaded with a shear grab I think it would turn it , not sure how even it would " unroll" it or would it just turn the block?

 

[mar]

Anyone putting clamp silage through a bale unroller? Seen the sheep man from Orkney doing it on YouTube. Looked to work but couldn’t see what machine he was using exactly. Don’t want a feeder wagon and not keen to go round bales. Looking for a simple way of feeding clamp silage either on a handler or tractor

If you put a block of silage from a clamp on a bale unroller, it's not going to roll over it's body like a round bale, would the full block not just come of the unroller in one lump.
Have you any links to the youtube video

 

[Tim G]

I'd have thought a kuhn polycrok would be the way forward.

 

[matthew]

We use a Lucas Castor for straw, clamp and baled silage.

 

[Suffolksucklers]

Would a hustler chainless work as it more shreds the bale out rather than unrolling it?

 

[Tomo23]

Emily attachments do a huge range of mixer and auger buckets for silage and straights.

When we were pit silage here we used an albutt auger bucket. Block cut silage onto floor, lather with molasses and scoop up with the bucket. Simple and effective.