Classic silage!

[RobFZS]

Wasn't able to get on the other forum because of the email rule...

but pic of the kidd rotaflail we use every year backend to get some zero grazing for the cows.

 

[cormywormy]

Suppose it blown into trailers and tipped in front of the cows? Whats the grass like that comes out of it, is it not mashed to bits? Cows eat it is the main thing....

 

[RobFZS]

Suppose it blown into trailers and tipped in front of the cows? Whats the grass like that comes out of it, is it not mashed to bits? Cows eat it is the main thing....

its blown in to one of these trailers ..

then left in yard for them to eat, seem to eat it down to the floor, grass is abit bruised but simular to a lawn mowers clippings

 

[MF7618]

Think my classic silage outfit would be a MF2645 on a deutz fahr fh900

 

[cormywormy]

Thats a handy was of doing it, straight into the feeder trailer. Id love to get my hands on one of then Kidd flails to strip apart and restore.

 

[cormywormy]

Think my classic silage outfit would be a MF2645 on a deutz fahr fh900

Did you see an outfit like that in this months classic tractor mag? Deutz trailed harvester.....must be a rare thing...

 

[RobFZS]

we have a spare, but its knackered, someones decided to weld the chute to the drum and the drawbar is abit bent, we just use it as spares

did see a doublechop at a farm sale go for £100, but it was rotten through

 

[cormywormy]

For some reason... i think its because of the single chop world record at dunmore, Co.Galway. The price of single chops have gone mad, this side of the water anyways. Lads looking for up to 500-600 for a old kidd harvester. Savage money for the 42inch taarup harvesters.

 

[MF7618]

Yes a good article. There where deutz choppers in our area than claas of Jf back in the 80's then the Reco Mengele sh30/40's took over.

 

[MF7618]

Best way zero grazing Rob cheaper than a proper Zero wagon

 

[RobFZS]

was thinking of maybe getting a silage trailer, putting it straight in there and then dumping it in forage bunker like normal silage, but my dad usually zero grazes while the cows are still out for abit extra for them to eat

 

[MF7618]

Use to blow grass into a richard western forage box the feed in the shed at a far where we use to silage at.

 

[Nearly]

Had a kidd rotoflail back in the day, used it for the same job in the spring. It finished up with fat landrover wheels on to save the ruts.
Our guard suffered the same fate as yours, probably people using it to stand on to swap the 5 gallon drums of Sylade. (still have a hundred empties on a loft)

Neil

 

[Easystart ED40]

As a young hayseed a local farmer had me stood in the trailer jumping up and down on the grass to get more in .He picked up light cut grass to zero with a 8011 and kidd rotorflail .Good job i never thought about flying bricks in those days .

 

[RobFZS]

As a young hayseed a local farmer had me stood in the trailer jumping up and down on the grass to get more in .He picked up light cut grass to zero with a 8011 and kidd rotorflail .Good job i never thought about flying bricks in those days .

lucky a flail didn't come off and clout you, apparently one came off and went through a window and knocked all the plaster off someones wall once, my dad was telling me

 

[Easystart ED40]

Aye makes you think now!! Sharpening the blades on a trailed chopper makes me cringe these days

 

[Thick Farmer]

We picked up silage with Nuffield 4/65 tractors on Wilder harvesters very similar to the one in the OP. 4 ton trailers behind and everything cam back to the pit to tip up.

If we managed 15 acres a day we were over the moon!

Changed to a Reco 40 in the early 90s, brought our silage making from a 2 week event down to 2 days.

I use a contractor now and it's all done in less than a day.

 

[Nearly]

Found this, back when the rotoflail was number one forager, because it was the only one.
Fordson Major on the clamp, I can still hear the exhaust echoing.

 

[green giant]

Think my classic silage outfit would be a MF2645 on a deutz fahr fh900

We mounted a ford wagon engine on a Fh 900 back in the 80s for a customer, pulled with a small deutz was a awesome outfit until, a foreign object happened to find its way into the swath, it was prone to the odd blow up!!

 

[Hicksy]

Thats a handy was of doing it, straight into the feeder trailer. Id love to get my hands on one of then Kidd flails to strip apart and restore.

Got an old new holland double chop that needs restoring if your interested , I' m pretty sure my boss would sell it