Shear Grab for Skid Steer

[I thats it]

We've a 5foot skid steer and I'm after a new sheer grab, the dealer tells me not to go for a hardox tine one as the Skid Steer won't be able to push the tines into the face. I fancy a 5foot shear grab with hardox tines but worry it'll be to heavy with a full grab.
Any one got one for their skid steer?

 

[Tirglas]

Neighbour does but its a big skid steer, think 6 ft. He is happy with the green hardox grab gets better after a bit of use

 

[Beef farmer]

What skiddy? You wouldn't dream of putting a shear grab on our jcb.

 

[Bald Rick]

What skiddy? You wouldn't dream of putting a shear grab on our jcb.

+1

Weight would likely stand it in its nose.

 

[Beef farmer]

+1

Weight would likely stand it in its nose.

Not that, the Bush in the back of the side arm isn't upto much work! Lovely for jumping in and out, but heavy work its not keen on

 

[Bald Rick]

Not that, the Bush in the back of the side arm isn't upto much work! Lovely for jumping in and out, but heavy work its not keen on

You tried to unload a pallet? Have to change my pants if the TM is away and the skid is the only machine around

 

[I thats it]

What skiddy? You wouldn't dream of putting a shear grab on our jcb.

I've a Manitou (they own what used to be Mustang) I'm sure it will handle the stick/pressure as we currently just use a 5ft muck grab to get silage out of the clamp and that gives it some stick.

 

[I thats it]

+1

Weight would likely stand it in its nose.

That's one of my concerns, currently use the 5ft muck grab and if you get a full grab of wet silage you've to be very careful going down hill. And a shear grab with hardox tines will be heavier still

 

[vantage]

That's one of my concerns, currently use the 5ft muck grab and if you get a full grab of wet silage you've to be very careful going down hill. And a shear grab with hardox tines will be heavier still

I think you’ve answered your own question.

 

[Cowcalf]

That's one of my concerns, currently use the 5ft muck grab and if you get a full grab of wet silage you've to be very careful going down hill. And a shear grab with hardox tines will be heavier still

reverse down hill, have a 170 jcb will handle a ton with care

 

[Pistonbroke]

There's a huge range of lift capacities in 5ft wide skidsteers from 550kg up to well over a ton. Our twose shear grab is only about 300 kg and holds about 450 kg of silage so too heavy for some and fine for others. Do some sums with the info you have

 

[Beef farmer]

Ours is 5ft and capacity of 1300kg. Skid around the yard with an ibc on the front and just shear stub axels off for fun. Think its due to the previous owner sticking really wide tyres on it tho

 

[Moorlands]

Ours is 5ft and capacity of 1300kg. Skid around the yard with an ibc on the front and just shear stub axels off for fun. Think its due to the previous owner sticking really wide tyres on it tho

Hmm was fancying a robot to replace our 5ft new Holland thats rated to 1200kg and does it with ease. Wondering now weather it would be a bad move, as can lift pallets with 1200kg on off wagons with ease and fly in to cubicles with 8ft buckets of sand to slew round and tickle it into cubicles.

 

[Khan]

I've used the dealer that supplied these a couple of times when we had our Terex backhoe. Are you parking grabs in front of cows? Not very easy with hardox tines.

 

[Twopokes]

Ours takes a 6ft6 shear grab fine.. a bit twitchy taking the top block off sometimes. She is quite a big skiddy, wouldn't want anything lighter on the job.

 

[gremlinatrix]

+1 for a Gehl/Mustang. I've two R190s on different farms. 5ft shear grab easy. 2 speed and arm float speeds the job up. Feeds and scrapes 500+ cows every winter. Lifts a ton with water in the rear wheels. Very cheap to run.

Swapped from a JCB robot. Thing was awful. The single arm design is fundamentally weak. Lasted 12 months before there was play in the arm. Wish I'd stuck with Gehl.

 

[Beef farmer]

+1 for a Gehl/Mustang. I've two R190s on different farms. 5ft shear grab easy. 2 speed and arm float speeds the job up. Feeds and scrapes 500+ cows every winter. Lifts a ton with water in the rear wheels. Very cheap to run.

Swapped from a JCB robot. Thing was awful. The single arm design is fundamentally weak. Lasted 12 months before there was play in the arm. Wish I'd stuck with Gehl.

500 cows across 2 farms or 1 machine 500 cows? All fed with blocks? Just short winter housing time?

 

[Cows 'n grass]

+1 for a Gehl/Mustang. I've two R190s on different farms. 5ft shear grab easy. 2 speed and arm float speeds the job up. Feeds and scrapes 500+ cows every winter. Lifts a ton with water in the rear wheels. Very cheap to run.

Swapped from a JCB robot. Thing was awful. The single arm design is fundamentally weak. Lasted 12 months before there was play in the arm. Wish I'd stuck with Gehl.

There's no chance my single speed bobcat would ever go fast enough to flick sh!t up the sides like that.

 

[Cows 'n grass]

I have an old parmitter shear grab for my bobcat but we never use it any more, part of the issue is that the bobcat has so little weight on the front wheels that when you shut the grab it would just lift the whole machine rather than cutting. I've only ever tried it on dry stemy dry cow feed though.

I have a Chilton combi grab. It has very close spaced tines and works far better than the shear grab.

 

[gremlinatrix]

There's no chance my single speed bobcat would ever go fast enough to flick sh!t up the sides like that.

It does get cleaned once a year for a service

It's 500 wintered on two farms, 250ish on each. Both have a skidsteer with a sheergrab, box scraper and bale spike. One farm mainly bales, the other mainly clamp. Cubicles, feeders and troughs. I'd love self feed, but we're working with what we have.
Both farms take about an hour and a half to scrape and feed once a day in the winter. One person.
An hour on xmas day if I open all the bales first.
Cows are moved back to the home farm for calving and milked as one mob.