Fred Beet washer and chopper

Bury the Trash

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Mixed Farmer
got some to sort out for sheep feeding....cant afford to buy a bucket and Just thinking/ looking for ideas on how to make one from the scrap pile :unsure:.........
 
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Bury the Trash

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Mixed Farmer
Old rotaspreader
Fill with beet and water
trouble is all our old rota spreaders have been used for other things ,still got a rotor with some chains on in the nettles though...

was thinking anold earth bucket and fix an auger in the base with a hole in the end like the ones you can buy ...with a single knife in it dont wnat them too small just one cut really would ne ideal .
still leaves washings holes needed
 

spin cycle

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If they are really high dry matter beet they are much harder for animals to get into compared to normal fodder beet. Many varieties of fodder beet are less than 20% dry mattter, high dry matter ones over 25% which makes a big difference in hardness.

hmm...that's the old thinking...I think the kiwis did some work disproving it 🤔

if they were going to spend their whole lives eating them perhaps....but not occassional/one off

my lot have chomped thru c quota sugar beet on occasion
 

sjt01

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North Norfolk
hmm...that's the old thinking...I think the kiwis did some work disproving it 🤔

if they were going to spend their whole lives eating them perhaps....but not occassional/one off

my lot have chomped thru c quota sugar beet on occasion
Your lot are hardly typical! Our old shepherd had a metal pole with two flats welded to the bottom in a cross to split beet for our sheep, so they had a corner to get into.
This is him with our ewes coming up the Standard in Wells. He is still around in his mid-90s
Percy Philips leadng sheep.jpg
 

spin cycle

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Your lot are hardly typical! Our old shepherd had a metal pole with two flats welded to the bottom in a cross to split beet for our sheep, so they had a corner to get into.
This is him with our ewes coming up the Standard in Wells. He is still around in his mid-90s
Percy Philips leadng sheep.jpg


want to 🥰 and 😁 at that post🙂

is that Tony b?.....I used to love seeing him move sheep on the road like that🥰

admittedly my lot did 'evolve' eating neighbours 'a' and 'b' quota in situ on occasion😗😁
 

Bury the Trash

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why have you got to wash /chop?

just feed as is surely?
its been so wet bit dirty this year no frost though hes still some to lift might be drier this week i suppose :hilarious:

mid dry matter just want to help older ewes and i havnt fed them for a year or 2... they might be a bit shy .
 

Wood field

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We used to feed a lot of beet , got some once that was black with soil , tried hose in loader bucket , tried dropping it on mesh frames to pressure wash
Ended up with the old bell cement mixer , takes time but better than listeria
 

Bury the Trash

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Mixed Farmer
We used to feed a lot of beet , got some once that was black with soil , tried hose in loader bucket , tried dropping it on mesh frames to pressure wash
Ended up with the old bell cement mixer , takes time but better than listeria
did you chop as well?and what variety ? i find my older ewes and some younger ones dont like anything much other than Fielderr that ive bought in in the past,due to being a bit harder i suppose...they just dont seem to get right into them with a vigour.. but imnot sure chopping actually makes a lot of differnce to that either:unsure:
and even better when i grew Feildher here and grazed them in the field there was minimal waste and they got into them and didnt get fed up with them either .
 
Your lot are hardly typical! Our old shepherd had a metal pole with two flats welded to the bottom in a cross to split beet for our sheep, so they had a corner to get into.
This is him with our ewes coming up the Standard in Wells. He is still around in his mid-90s
Percy Philips leadng sheep.jpg
What a cracking photo. Its got everything, scenery, stock, a defender and the leading man. Awesome
 

Wood field

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Livestock Farmer
did you chop as well?and what variety ? i find my older ewes and some younger ones dont like anything much other than Fielderr that ive bought in in the past,due to being a bit harder i suppose...they just dont seem to get right into them with a vigour.. but imnot sure chopping actually makes a lot of differnce to that either:unsure:
and even better when i grew Feildher here and grazed them in the field there was minimal waste and they got into them and didnt get fed up with them either .
To be honest I couldn’t say the variety
Fairly solid though, I used to chop with a spade in the loader bucket , then we bought a chopper for the back of the tractor, a fairly basic hopper with a full length shaft / knives.
It was cheap and cheerful but did a job , I recall was about £1200, if I can I’ll find a photo It was a pig for letting the beets interlock if that makes sense so they wouldn’t drop to the chopping knives, I think the hopper was too steep sided
Pretty sure with a bit of thought you could make one
We eventually got beet from East Yorkshire that was much cleaner so didn’t need to be washed
It’s such a shame the transport kills it for us as it’s a really good feed , both cows and sheep would come running when they heard the tractor, I’ll try and find some pics
 

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