Downton_shep
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- Location
- Leintwardine
How come you didn’t open her up a bit? Must take ages to fill a bag.
Snackers
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Downton_shep
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- Location
- Leintwardine
Wouldn’t go back to bags after using a snacker. Got a twin axel Logic because the grounds pretty rough here. Much smoother ride and doesn’t keep push/pulling on the quad so kinder on the back. Can do upto 100 miles a day dragging it about dropping upto tonne and half a day at peak. Wouldn’t attempt it without the counter.
Feeding ewes and lambs is fine 99% if the time, just got to watch the odd suicidal lamb that charges towards the front of the quad like it’s possessed! Generally if one goes under a wheel it’s perfectly fine just shaken.
Feeding ewes and lambs is fine 99% if the time, just got to watch the odd suicidal lamb that charges towards the front of the quad like it’s possessed! Generally if one goes under a wheel it’s perfectly fine just shaken.
No it seems great minds think alike
Been over a few ewes (4 i think) with the snacker when i had the old kawasaki with crap brakes going downhill most of the time and go to stop then quad slides and snacker goes over the ewe
Ewes are usually fine get up and run off to get more feed. One stood around for a bit then decided she was still hungry.
Never been over a little lamb usually race to rhe other side of the field away from them then start feeding if you put a few drops down before the ewes get there then they usually stop running when they get to the ewes and i can feed without running lambs over. Next door used to run lots over with theirs though
chapmanmachinery
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- Location
- Holsworthy, Devon
If you'd like a demonstration of one of our machines please do not hesitate to give us or one of our distributors a call, we're here to help.
Ground driven units are good in so much as they are cheaper and simpler, however for any more than a few drops you need an electronic counter such as we manufacture (or Logic, to be fair). Drum units aren't ideal if you do a lot of mileage as the drum is always moving and wearing, electric units only run when dropping feed so better suited to larger numbers or those with bigger distances between fields.
With our counter you set the number of drops you want, and the units counts down and stops at 0, we find a lot of users set the drop count whilst on the way into the field then it's just a case of pressing go and the machine does the rest. If that doesn't work for you, alternatively you can just press run and it counts from 0 upwards until you tell it to stop.
We do a range of options on tyres and so forth, standard wheels are a 22x11x8", but a popular option are the oversize 25x13x9" tyres which give better ground clearance and lower ground pressure. We also do a twin axle option for rough terrain.
All of our products are manufactured by us at Holsworthy, Devon, and come with a 2 year warranty.
Video here which shows the counter function at 0:32 and feeding cattle filmed using a drone at 1:05:
Admittedly this was filmed in the summer as it's not easy to get good drone footage at this time of year!
Ground driven units are good in so much as they are cheaper and simpler, however for any more than a few drops you need an electronic counter such as we manufacture (or Logic, to be fair). Drum units aren't ideal if you do a lot of mileage as the drum is always moving and wearing, electric units only run when dropping feed so better suited to larger numbers or those with bigger distances between fields.
With our counter you set the number of drops you want, and the units counts down and stops at 0, we find a lot of users set the drop count whilst on the way into the field then it's just a case of pressing go and the machine does the rest. If that doesn't work for you, alternatively you can just press run and it counts from 0 upwards until you tell it to stop.
We do a range of options on tyres and so forth, standard wheels are a 22x11x8", but a popular option are the oversize 25x13x9" tyres which give better ground clearance and lower ground pressure. We also do a twin axle option for rough terrain.
All of our products are manufactured by us at Holsworthy, Devon, and come with a 2 year warranty.
Video here which shows the counter function at 0:32 and feeding cattle filmed using a drone at 1:05:
Admittedly this was filmed in the summer as it's not easy to get good drone footage at this time of year!
- Location
- Easter ross
I know where there is/was one if you're interested. Dealer ordered it then it was cancelled. Been sat a while and they're not hard to deal with usually. Tempted to retrofit it to mine but always seems a hassleAs @neilo says I’m actually not that fussed. Biggest mob is getting 50 drops atm. Not that hard to count. I missed a fully wired harness at roup barn door last month
- Location
- Montgomeryshire
Looks tidy.
The timer that counts down is a useful improvement over the simpler Logic one IMO.
Woolless
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- Location
- Berwickshire, Scottish Borders
Another vote for port agric ground drive, if you just need a simple machine. Bought an old one secondhand a couple of years ago and it has done me well.
- Location
- Dumfries & Galloway
Port Agric went bust a few years ago... but if you search "sheep snacker" on eBay, there's a brand new one for sale in Lanarkshire for £750. Agree they were very good snackers, strong built. Just gotta put up with that bright yellow hopper
- Location
- West Wales
Because the you move the settings by a thou and it alters hugely, havnt moved it in years.. we empty into crystalyx tubs and then fill bags with them, some lots are still on bags because of something else going on on the farm, and the rams. Their on bags because only fed by us twice a week.
- Location
- Scottish Borders
I’ve a 6 x3 twin axel quad trailer , with the front foot sectioned off with chequer plate to make a basic hopper, and sluice with handle beneath..The top lid can be placed on the floor to cover the sluice, and makes a pen for carrying lambs.
It was made by an engineer/ fabricator near Lanark as he was always being asked to stick tow bars on snackers to pull trailers too. So why not make a trailer with a basic snacker on the front.
Now it doesn’t pretend to be a fancy feeder, but if you know how many ewes are in said field, you bung in amount needed, and open and shut as u drive about.
Simple solid trailer, and gets used here far more to run ewes n lambs about than to feed out from . And the twin axel carries really well in the mud!
It was made by an engineer/ fabricator near Lanark as he was always being asked to stick tow bars on snackers to pull trailers too. So why not make a trailer with a basic snacker on the front.
Now it doesn’t pretend to be a fancy feeder, but if you know how many ewes are in said field, you bung in amount needed, and open and shut as u drive about.
Simple solid trailer, and gets used here far more to run ewes n lambs about than to feed out from . And the twin axel carries really well in the mud!
General-Lee
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- Location
- Devon
On our 2nd Logic, new couple years ago so will do us a while but now see above that Chapman is localish.
Have run over the odd lamb went through a spate of one a year, generally fudged but that was when we towed it with a wide wheeled 90 nothing since moving to a Gator.
Wouldn’t want to go back to bags and getting mobbed/flattened isn’t fun.
Have run over the odd lamb went through a spate of one a year, generally fudged but that was when we towed it with a wide wheeled 90 nothing since moving to a Gator.
Wouldn’t want to go back to bags and getting mobbed/flattened isn’t fun.
- Location
- Perthshire, Scotland
I don’t find the calibration too hard. Try to do it at least twice during the winter as feed “pourablity” can vary with the weather or between batches.
Once calibrated I marked next to the slide adjuster with my engraver. ER for ewe rolls and BP for sugar beet pulp. That at least gives me an idea where to start when moving between feed types.
Once calibrated I marked next to the slide adjuster with my engraver. ER for ewe rolls and BP for sugar beet pulp. That at least gives me an idea where to start when moving between feed types.
- Location
- West Wales
Yours is clean
Its taken 2 of us to lift the empty snacker up to the quad and back off again, today we pushed the mud off it with a shovel
- Location
- Perthshire, Scotland
I had scraped the drawbar with a shovel then used the air line to clean it when I recalibrated it last night!!
Does anyone make a snacker to replace the back body on a mule/ gator?
We buy an artic load of rolls in bags and I feed out with the mule and my 25 year old home made snacker every day.
The bags are on the mule and the snacker is quite light.
This recent weather if I had a fully loaded snacker filled from a bulk bin I would have been stuck.The ballast and low drag of the unloaded snacker has allowed me to get enough grip.
The only way I could really see me changing to a bulk bin would be to remove the mule back body and fit a hopper with a logic style metering system.
Any suggestions?
We buy an artic load of rolls in bags and I feed out with the mule and my 25 year old home made snacker every day.
The bags are on the mule and the snacker is quite light.
This recent weather if I had a fully loaded snacker filled from a bulk bin I would have been stuck.The ballast and low drag of the unloaded snacker has allowed me to get enough grip.
The only way I could really see me changing to a bulk bin would be to remove the mule back body and fit a hopper with a logic style metering system.
Any suggestions?
Along the lines of these.
TripleSix
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- Location
- Helmsley, North Yorkshire
We've a home made job.
Old metal fert spinner hopper, Landrover wheels and stub ends.
Open the slide and drive like hell!
Old metal fert spinner hopper, Landrover wheels and stub ends.
Open the slide and drive like hell!