McHale or Kuhn straw chopper.
- Thread starter Martyn
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You'll be asking the price next
About 1k between the two from the prices I’ve had recently (in favour of the red one)…You'll be asking the price next
Got that,You'll be asking the price next
Care to share what you’ve been told for someone in the process of buying one of the two makes in this threads title?
- Location
- Staffordshire Moorlands
Teagle at work. Be 10 year old and never had a spanner on it. Only straw through it now and will take any quality straw you put in it. Paint has started flaking bad now though.
Used to put bale silage through and there was certainly a nack to operating it. On an unroller now though for feeding.
Not forget though, clues in the name, straw blower. These machines IMO are straw machines that have the ability to feed some silage.
Used to put bale silage through and there was certainly a nack to operating it. On an unroller now though for feeding.
Not forget though, clues in the name, straw blower. These machines IMO are straw machines that have the ability to feed some silage.
beardface
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- Location
- East Yorkshire
We have a 460 mchale. Eats anything and very easy to use. Set bed about half way and use the comb to adjust feed rate into beater then speed up near the end of the bale. We'll built too.
Northeastfarmer
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- Location
- Cleveland
A lot of people rate the Kuhn
Pistonbroke
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If the comb can be moved from the cab on the Kuhn, there's nothing between them really. We have a 2014 McHale, there's a few silly flat surfaces that collect silage which rusts it unless you clean it regularly but the newer ones have been changed to slopes
Must have spoken to the right person
- Location
- Dumfries & Galloway
You can move the comb from the cab on the Kuhn - and it's a better design, you don't end up with the McHale banana shaped ram
There isn't much between them really, McHale has caught up (copied) Kuhn
our teagle cost 1500 when we looked on the plate and saw the age we couldn't belive how young it was, some dairy farmer's are rough! new chain and sprockets and it never miss's a beat, 365 day's a year!
Pistonbroke
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Fair enough,the only Kuhn ones I've seen,the comb could be moved by unbolting it.You can move the comb from the cab on the Kuhn - and it's a better design, you don't end up with the McHale banana shaped ram
There isn't much between them really, McHale has caught up (copied) Kuhn
You needed to tick the right box when ordering a new one. Its not standard, although probably should be.
To be fair to the design thieving Irish buggers, they did come up with a few good ideas of their ownYou can move the comb from the cab on the Kuhn - and it's a better design, you don't end up with the McHale banana shaped ram
There isn't much between them really, McHale has caught up (copied) Kuhn
Mchale is by far the easiest to unblock when you try sticking through a wet mouldy leaf of straw, hungover, on a Sunday morn (or so I'm told, obviously
)There's a clever lever into flywheel holes in the Mchale that gets it reversed in minutes. Every other machine needs hours bashing a fence post into the chute, pulling forage out the knives, and then stitching up your hands
- Location
- Northern Ireland
Anyone used or heard reports about VDMJ or VDW blowers?
Teagle 8500 every time. Wonderful people to deal with. Free with advise if any pproblems and parts in the post over night.
They admit to learning problems a few years back when they moved to powder coat paint. Our latest is much better paint. Jammed machines. Used to use a post but son now uses load strap with hooks not "D" rings on the end. Fourth machine, no probs and lots of top bales used all hestons 1200 hestons a year 365 days
Throws further that Lcas
They admit to learning problems a few years back when they moved to powder coat paint. Our latest is much better paint. Jammed machines. Used to use a post but son now uses load strap with hooks not "D" rings on the end. Fourth machine, no probs and lots of top bales used all hestons 1200 hestons a year 365 days
Throws further that Lcas