Keenan bale handler

[newhollandcruzr]

Hi guys We need to get a mixer for mixing rolled wheat and alkagrain for a local feed company and have been told that keenan would be ideal question is how well would the bale handler model cope with chopped hayledge bales for the beef herd and how many bales would a 140 hold ? Many thanks

 

[tr250]

Hi guys We need to get a mixer for mixing rolled wheat and alkagrain for a local feed company and have been told that keenan would be ideal question is how well would the bale handler model cope with chopped hayledge bales for the beef herd and how many bales would a 140 hold ? Many thanks

Keenan are perfect and cheap to run for mixing grain etc together or mixing it in with clamp silage and a bit of straw. But they really arnt that good at dry bales of silage in my opinion. If your after one I have a really good clean klassik 140 that we have owned from new for £5000

 

[jg123]

We have a 140 (non bale handler) not sure of the difference but when we tried one day it just wrapped round the discharge auger and took 2 hours to unblock. If iv had to do bales... one at a time and only open discharge a little bit to unload very slow. Clamp would depend on dry matter but normally 4 ton no problem and as fast as you like. We just use clamp normally and are very happy. Think even with bale handler you would want damp short chopped silage not haylage bales. Have mixed barley and other stuff in it.... works well but discharge on standard machine can be low to get a big bucket on telehandler under

 

[Shep]

Keenan Bale handler is a waste of time Literally! I think they do a good enough job if you've got half a day to wait on it.
Nothing better for mixing grain though.

 

[mo!]

We do bales with our Klassik 140 6 paddle. It is painful. We chop them up with the sheargrab first but it is still carp. Fine for clamp.

 

[ridger]

Most over rated machine ever, those keenans

 

[Tim G]

It will drive you mad................very, very , very slowly.

 

[Mark140259]

We have a keenan classic 140 bale handler. Its about 7 years old now. You will need 500 kg of water in before you start mixing. We put 1 200 kg bale of straw,meal however much you want. 2, 600 kg silage bales. Then top it up with maize. Let it chop for long enough and you will get 5 tons in it. It takes an age for the first straw bale to go through. We add i little pressure with the teleporter! The dryer your silage the more water you need and the longer you will need to let it chop. Rush it and you will break sheadbolts! The cattle do fanfastic on it tho. Maize is unbelievable food to put the keenan. It binds everything tkgether and stops the cattle picking through the TMR to find the meal. We had a cattle nuitritionist called David Hendy work out rations for us. Really good bloke.

 

[tr250]

We have a keenan classic 140 bale handler. Its about 7 years old now. You will need 500 kg of water in before you start mixing. We put 1 200 kg bale of straw,meal however much you want. 2, 600 kg silage bales. Then top it up with maize. Let it chop for long enough and you will get 5 tons in it. It takes an age for the first straw bale to go through. We add i little pressure with the teleporter! The dryer your silage the more water you need and the longer you will need to let it chop. Rush it and you will break sheadbolts! The cattle do fanfastic on it tho. Maize is unbelievable food to put the keenan. It binds everything tkgether and stops the cattle picking through the TMR to find the meal. We had a cattle nuitritionist called David Hendy work out rations for us. Really good bloke.

David does ours too he's a top bloke.

 

[fergie35]

This is what you need

16 cubic metre capacity. £10,500 PM me for details.

 

[highland-man]

As already stated Keenan are useless when it comes to handling bales of any kind. They are years behind other makes for that kind of thing.

They are quite simply an average-perfectly decent mixer wagon with tremendous effort put into marketing. Good everyday machines for mixing pit silage / concentrates etc but thats it.

You really want a machine with Augers , either twin vertical or horizontal augers for bales. KV horizontal / Siloking vertical , strautman , kuhn etc are generally all good machines, way better suited than a keenan for bales. I have a neighbour with a hi-spec and it is not very good , it breaks the shearbolt for the slightest thing.

 

[Fergieman]

As said above Keenan good for concentrates and pit silage but forget about them for bales. We have 2 keenans but it is all pit silage. We do also mix up barley and concentrate in 4 tonne batches which it does perfectly well.

 

[newhollandcruzr]

So there not the ultimate bale handler

 

[newhollandcruzr]

This is what you need

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16 cubic metre capacity. £10,500 PM me for details.

Has it got just a door both sides or conveyor on the right thanks

 

[ridger]

So there not the ultimate bale handler

My unchopped bales don't fall apart like that anyway

 

[james ds]

I've heard keenans are bringing out a tub type feeder shortly, they must releise that most of their feeders are being traded in for tubs

 

[highland-man]

My unchopped bales don't fall apart like that anyway

Haha slackest bale i've ever seen.

 

[tr250]

I've heard keenans are bringing out a tub type feeder shortly, they must releise that most of their feeders are being traded in for tubs

Probably not as no one dare ring them up for a quote or they will not leave you alone

 

[Enry]

Chap here last week said that they are in the process of selling the bulk of the company and that the Irish Gov were their main investor as they try to protect manufacturing jobs in rural Ireland. Mind you he was trying to (unsuccessfully) sell a secondhand tub mixer

 

[vantage]

Chap here last week said that they are in the process of selling the bulk of the company and that the Irish Gov were their main investor as they try to protect manufacturing jobs in rural Ireland. Mind you he was trying to (unsuccessfully) sell a secondhand tub mixer

Gerry Conlan?