Concrete panels for feed troughs

[onthehoof]

Anyone use these, was thinking about having a feed fence with 4 ft concrete panel set at an angle of about 45° 2ft away from feed fence so that as animals eat from the bottom the silage would slide down, save having to keep pushing up.
Think @Pan mixer might have something like this??

 

[Northeastfarmer]

Why not just do the job properly and buy concrete bunker troughs

 

[onthehoof]

Why not just do the job properly and buy concrete bunker troughs

Got any links/pics??

 

[Northeastfarmer]

Got any links/pics??

 

[Pan mixer]

Anyone use these, was thinking about having a feed fence with 4 ft concrete panel set at an angle of about 45° 2ft away from feed fence so that as animals eat from the bottom the silage would slide down, save having to keep pushing up.
Think @Pan mixer might have something like this??

My panels are vertical and 4 feet away for ease of putting bales in. With hindsight I would have put the bottom in a foot and left the top at 4 ft.

 

[Nithsdale]

Seriously expensive for what they are. We looked at them

Anyone use these, was thinking about having a feed fence with 4 ft concrete panel set at an angle of about 45° 2ft away from feed fence so that as animals eat from the bottom the silage would slide down, save having to keep pushing up.
Think @Pan mixer might have something like this??

We've done this, which I'd say is exactly what you're thinking.

They're a 1m panel, roughly at 45°. We did this 3 years ago, have since put a wooden batton at the top of the panel, sitting vertical, stops the cows flicking silage onto the road and means the trough can hold more and as you say gravity forces the silage towards the barrier so we don't have to push up.

 

[Nithsdale]

Here's pictures from last winter with the headboard fitted

All in, it cost about £1500 to do 105 feet of shed (panels were only around £200 each, 15' long. I can't remember the thickness off top of my head).. those concrete troughs posted above - I couldn't have bought 3 of them for that price, and I would have needed 9 - so x3 the price

 

[onthehoof]

Here's pictures from last winter with the headboard fitted

All in, it cost about £1500 to do 105 feet of shed (panels were only around £200 each, 15' long. I can't remember the thickness off top of my head).. those concrete troughs posted above - I couldn't have bought 3 of them for that price, and I would have needed 9 - so x3 the price

Got to be better than having the silage on the ground!

 

[Nithsdale]

Got to be better than having the silage on the ground!

Definitely.

We are fortunate the road is raised from the shed, so I just had a little grading with the digger and I dug some footings for breezeblocks to sit the panels on to make sure they were firm and level... took a bit of buggering about with a spirit level and battons to get a straight run but I didn't have to build up the ground or make a wall or anything to sit the top of the panel on

I still need to concrete the road... but I'm a tenant, so slowly slowly

 

[Bill dog]

@Nithsdale Farmer , that’s a great job !
How often do you muck the feed face out? Or does that just depend on silage quality etc .

 

[Nithsdale]

@Nithsdale Farmer , that’s a great job !
How often do you muck the feed face out? Or does that just depend on silage quality etc .

Yeah depends if there's a bad bit in a bale, but there's not much cleaning out. Pick out the odd docks once a week usually...

 

[Pan mixer]

Clean mine out a couple of times a year.

 

[Hilly]

Anyone use these, was thinking about having a feed fence with 4 ft concrete panel set at an angle of about 45° 2ft away from feed fence so that as animals eat from the bottom the silage would slide down, save having to keep pushing up.
Think @Pan mixer might have something like this??

Yes I do , they make great troughs substantaily cheaper than precast ones , I’m busy making 200 ft of pannel trough at the moment .