Mc Hale c460

[icanshootwell]

Had the belts get hot a few times, feeding silage (round bale) by the time you stop machine there is a lot of smoke from belts, took cover aff last night to possibly adjust up but found it to be an auto type which i am not familiar with. There is adjustment but how do you know if you over tighten it? Belt still seems ok, also when feeding out silage is it ok to feed in high and slow bed chain right up, i find changing from straw a phaff, so leave in high all the time. I find it better in high for silage anyway, as it puts the silage where you want it rather than fall and drop when in low. Interested how others use there's.

 

[v8willy]

Don't feed much silage with ours but when we do it's always in low & never have any problem, only 80 horse on it so high for silage is a non starter anyway, not hard to throw a lever across.

 

[e3120]

My Lucas stays in low all the time and I just swap between 540 and 1000 in the cab for more or less the same result. Doesn't need to be stopped when you get the knack.

 

[David1968]

The manual on our Kuhn says high for straw and low for silage. Have used it for pit silage a few times when the forage wagon has been playing up, and low was fine for that.
In fact, if it was in high, I don't think the stuff would stay in the trough.

 

[Pistonbroke]

I haven't got one but I thought that changing the speed of the gearbox changes the flywheel speed not the chopping drum

 

[An Gof]

I haven't got one but I thought that changing the speed of the gearbox changes the flywheel speed not the chopping drum

My understanding as well.
Flywheel pro driven, chopping drum hydraulically driven.

 

[Pistonbroke]

My understanding as well.
Flywheel pro driven, chopping drum hydraulically driven.

Is it hydraulic driven,or hydraulic ram tightening the belt like a Kuhn? My old kverneland has bitten the dust and I'm in the middle of looking for a good second hand chopper now and trying to sort which are good or bad

 

[Optimus]

Is it hydraulic driven,or hydraulic ram tightening the belt like a Kuhn? My old kverneland has bitten the dust and I'm in the middle of looking for a good second hand chopper now and trying to sort which are good or bad

Its like the Kuhn. Ram tightens the belts.

 

[Pistonbroke]

Its like the Kuhn. Ram tightens the belts.

McHale been admiring other people's ideas again like the knife by the chute that Lucas " patented"

 

[Optimus]

McHale been admiring other people's ideas again like the knife by the chute that Lucas " patented"

Is that not what they do best!? Wish they had Admired someone else's idea for the floor motor.

 

[hally]

Had the belts get hot a few times, feeding silage (round bale) by the time you stop machine there is a lot of smoke from belts, took cover aff last night to possibly adjust up but found it to be an auto type which i am not familiar with. There is adjustment but how do you know if you over tighten it? Belt still seems ok, also when feeding out silage is it ok to feed in high and slow bed chain right up, i find changing from straw a phaff, so leave in high all the time. I find it better in high for silage anyway, as it puts the silage where you want it rather than fall and drop when in low. Interested how others use there's.

We were told to use slow gear, high really for straw. We fed our silage through for a couple of years but given up now as it seriously ages the machine compared with straw.

 

[icanshootwell]

We were told to use slow gear, high really for straw. We fed our silage through for a couple of years but given up now as it seriously ages the machine compared with straw.

I know what your saying but we hardly get any silage waste anymore, cows dragging silage under there feet is one, (round bales)
Also stops suckler cows over eating as well as we feed them twice a day now with the feeder. Works great in straw, fantastic bit of kit.

 

[An Gof]

Is it hydraulic driven,or hydraulic ram tightening the belt like a Kuhn? My old kverneland has bitten the dust and I'm in the middle of looking for a good second hand chopper now and trying to sort which are good or bad

Ah, good point, you have me thinking now.
The rotor doesn’t run unless the oil flow
is on but you may have a point.

 

[Pistonbroke]

Ah, good point, you have me thinking now.
The rotor doesn’t run unless the oil flow
is on but you may have a point.

McHale's own video says it's a hydraulic motor but it's driven off the gearbox I think

 

[icanshootwell]

What I have found with feeding silage in low is you have to have the revs quite high or you will block the shoot. That's with bales, clamp would be ok on lower revs.

 

[Pistonbroke]

Had the belts get hot a few times, feeding silage (round bale) by the time you stop machine there is a lot of smoke from belts, took cover aff last night to possibly adjust up but found it to be an auto type which i am not familiar with. There is adjustment but how do you know if you over tighten it? Belt still seems ok, also when feeding out silage is it ok to feed in high and slow bed chain right up, i find changing from straw a phaff, so leave in high all the time. I find it better in high for silage anyway, as it puts the silage where you want it rather than fall and drop when in low. Interested how others use there's.

Any help?