After over 10 years of running Cowcare rope scrappers I struggle to think of anyway of scrapping for less money , simple and reliable to bootalso auto scrapers aren’t the cheapest things in the world to run.
How many cows is it scraping up for?
About the only thing on our farm you can fix with a penknife!After over 10 years of running Cowcare rope scrappers I struggle to think of anyway of scrapping for less money , simple and reliable to boot
180How many cows is it scraping up for?
Absolutely and even the 4 to 5 year service of corner rollers only needs a single 19mm spanner. Proper dairy farmer stuff !About the only thing on our farm you can fix with a penknife!
We have 10 scraped lanes, fitted 6 lanes of scrapers and it saved us 2000 litres of diesel a month through the winter, even with high electric prices it’s a huge savingAbsolutely and even the 4 to 5 year service of corner rollers only needs a single 19mm spanner. Proper dairy farmer stuff !
How much was it
What the hell were you scraping up with to use over 60 l of fuel a day to scrape 6 lanes?We have 10 scraped lanes, fitted 6 lanes of scrapers and it saved us 2000 litres of diesel a month through the winter, even with high electric prices it’s a huge saving
Not too bad,What the hell were you scraping up with to use over 60 l of fuel a day to scrape 6 lanes?
2 ford 6600’s the passageways are 4 metres wide and over 100 metres longWhat the hell were you scraping up with to use over 60 l of fuel a day to scrape 6 lanes?
Mensch make them in the USI saw a movie of a homemade creation, a vacuumtank with a v form rubber blade in front of the wheels with hydraulically adjustable wings and the suckpart of the tank in the middle so it directly sucked the shiit up, it was glorious.
Yes but nobody makes it any more. For those of us on sand it would make a lot of sense.& Pichon make the paupers version…View attachment 1092478View attachment 1092479
It looked a lot like that yes. An old tanker and a new scraper, couple of days work, can't cost all that much to make.& Pichon make the paupers version…View attachment 1092478View attachment 1092479
Twelve months on how’s it doing?
If it’s Anything like my neighbours joz silage pusher that’s gone back!Twelve months on how’s it doing?
How did it work in the drier times?
Does it cope with lots of sawdust ?
If it’s Anything like my neighbours joz silage pusher that’s gone back!