Narrow feed passage

[choochter]

saw this on cbeebies this morning and thought of you @Dave6170 !!

Automatic feed pusher - always fresh feed - Juno - Lely

www.lely.com

 

[Hilly]

We have a long center feed pass in one of our sheds. We fill it with silage with the loader and what is left in the middle that the cows cant reach has to be graiped in by hand to each side.
I'm getting fed up with it.
View attachment 1013114Has anyone got any ideas how to make it easier?
Have thought of a V plough type idea or make a triangle boxy thingy down the middle that would split the silage to each side.

I make a triangle boxy thingy as big as tractor can get over down middle .

 

[Chae1]

Be cheaper to widen pass than many of these high tech suggestions

 

[davidroberts30]

 

[Hilly]

Are them Leley robot silage pushers expensive ? Silly question I know but ball park ?

 

[Happy]

Have an airlock type arrangement where cattle can't get out and open the gates yourself or even an electric tape or rope will work, or have a system where cattle can be shut in one half of the court at a time.

Plenty will be driving into pend to bed cattle if they don't have a bedder, so silage isn't really any different.

Not what I do, but I have in the past and know plenty of well run without a bedder and use ring feeders.

One very well managed unit I've visited uses an electric tape when bedding and he'll have 300 plus cows and finishes everything.
A guy near us has 200 or so cows and finishers doesn't use a bedder either and their cows only get concentrate restricted silage at the barrier and dumps bales in for them to feed and bed themselves with, while some of their cattle just gets silage in rings.

Everyone has their own way that works for them. Got a shed with 12ft raised passage here but just use ring feeders at gable ends to feed silage. Simple, Fast and keeps passage clear for bedding machine to run down.

 

[David1968]

Get a decent sized lawn tractor and fit a v-blade on front of it.

 

[Dave6170]

I've never seen cool stuff like that on cbeebies

saw this on cbeebies this morning and thought of you @Dave6170 !!

Automatic feed pusher - always fresh feed - Juno - Lely

www.lely.com

 

[choochter]

I've never seen cool stuff like that on cbeebies

Down on the Farm - Series 3: 19. Farm Cats and Robots

JB and Storm find out about farm robots, farm cats, donkeys and glass recycling.

www.bbc.co.uk

2mins 25 in

 

[7610 super q]

Scrap potato ridger ( Just the one ) pulled by a quad bike or something ?



Dull point though obviously.....

 

[Jockers84]

Could you not use a fresh round bale of straw on its can? Push it in far enough, let them clear it then in with fresh silage? Use other end of bale next time, then use bale for bedding? Depends on floor and how easy the silage would move. Plenty options of knocking together blade type things that could slip onto forks, or a heavy old wheel on a PZ turner frame off the 3 point linkage?

 

[Dave6170]

Thinking of throwing together some sort of a v plough for behind the massey 35 to try first. If not a triangle box up the center, but that will be a fair amount of materials to make it.

 

[glasshouse]

Thinking of throwing together some sort of a v plough for behind the massey 35 to try first. If not a triangle box up the center, but that will be a fair amount of materials to make it.

Big pipe sliced in half

 

[Dave6170]

Big pipe sliced in half

Have an old scraper lying about, could bolt a rubber edge on it too. My brother is making a log splitter just now so will get him onto it after that.

 

[SR7]

This saves a lot of forking in and costs nothing

 

[BRB John]

Couldn't be bothered reading the 5 pages but has ripping the feed pass out and feeding the cattle in feed bins outside been suggested yet?

 

[Half Pipe]

Thinking of throwing together some sort of a v plough for behind the massey 35 to try first. If not a triangle box up the center, but that will be a fair amount of materials to make it.

With the silage in a solid lump in middle of passage a v plough kinda needs steered left and right to split it or it will slide Infront and create a lump. You might can fit a rudder of some sort if rear mounting

 

[bobajob]

Can you still get those shear grabs that split in the middle and you can open each half individually?
Don't suppose 1 would help much with nosed out silage anyway.

 

[Bill the Bass]

Be cheaper to widen pass than many of these high tech suggestions

We have two 60 x 90 sheds with 10 foot feed passages, both getting altered this year, one will be feed down the side the other will get a 15 foot passage. Make life easier and gain 450 square foot of extra shed. Even a small telehandler is a pain in a ten foot passage, cows heads trapped, mudguards braed to bits then they are to fork up.

 

[davidroberts30]

Just leave the nosed out silage in the middle
Soon build up and wont be problem