A farmer who I do a lot of work for is trying to speed up the time spent filling the twin tub feeder , feeding over 1000 head of stock every day, currently using a JCB 320 and a shear bucket, he’s think of going for a 414 and bigger grab but might not have enough height with it, how are people filling their feeders high speed.
Quickest way to fill diet feeder .
- Thread starter james ds
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ollie989898
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Loading shovel got to be the only way. Is a 414 going to be enough?
Wreckit Ralf
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Cut out the loader all together and go for a Self propelled diet feeder?
Tried the sp diet feeder and it was too awkward around the yard even though there is plenty of room , the seating position on the sp feeder is very blind.
ollie989898
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I know of a farm that had one and went back to wagon and loader.
Probably not.
ollie989898
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- Location
- Dumfries & Galloway
Only way to speed that up is to have 2 tub feeders working...
kiwi pom
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- Location
- canterbury NZ
All depends on your set up and what's in the mix I suppose?
Are you loading in the same spot from a commodity barn or parking the feeder in the silage clamps?
Ideal set up with a complicated mix would be everything in one spot including silage and have the mixer parked at the end at a lower level. A shovel with a bucket would soon load it then.
Are you loading in the same spot from a commodity barn or parking the feeder in the silage clamps?
Ideal set up with a complicated mix would be everything in one spot including silage and have the mixer parked at the end at a lower level. A shovel with a bucket would soon load it then.
- Location
- Co antrim
How about 1 o them big trioliet grabs that takes a heap o stuf with it
michael N123
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If you’ve got staff a second diet feeder 
ridger
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- Location
- Tyrone, Northern Ireland
Sell 500 cattle
rusty
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- Location
- Buxton Derbyshire
Depends a lot on how many ingredients you put in. I do a premix once a week of all the straights and tip this in a shed next to the silage pits. First load put premix and brewers grains in with bucket then swap to shear grab for forages. While first load is mixing cut rest of the days blocks down . Rest of the loads done with just the bucket which is 9ft wide on a JCB TM320S so you can around 1.5 tonne in each bucket full.
- Location
- Co antrim
Would a big shear bucket not be handier?
Wellytrack
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Oh dear.
Yet another my knob is too big thread...
Yet another my knob is too big thread...
manfromhill
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Know if one place that went from telehandler to big loading shovel and he cracked a lot of his concrete as couldn’t handle the weight
Chae1
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- Location
- Aberdeenshire
Quickest way in my opinion is to be prepared. Cut all the silage he will need for day out first. Then get a big handling bucket to load it. We have started doing this and find it quicker. Be prepared, have everything at hand to chuck in.
Could somebody else cut out blocks while hes emptying wagon?
Could somebody else cut out blocks while hes emptying wagon?
Wellytrack
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Actually now that I think about it, it's worse than that.
it's a my mates knob is too big thread..
How you manage to feed 1000 cattle before you discover it takes too long. Don't understand.
900. Fine.
950. Still fine.
999. Hanging on.
1000. Oh the dinners ready.
Anyway, quickest way is a 360 with a 4 foot bucket in the pit.
Nobody said anything about being tidy.
it's a my mates knob is too big thread..
How you manage to feed 1000 cattle before you discover it takes too long. Don't understand.
900. Fine.
950. Still fine.
999. Hanging on.
1000. Oh the dinners ready.
Anyway, quickest way is a 360 with a 4 foot bucket in the pit.
Nobody said anything about being tidy.
Dave W
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- Location
- chesterfield
Not being a cattle man. I'm just trying to picture what scale 1000 cows and the required sized pits look like.
Not an option , expanding all the time .