Straw and silage chopper or unroller?

[hilux]

Got a feed barrier down the middle of the shed and 57ft either side. Up until now been putting a straw bale either side and bedding down by hand. Same goes for the middle of the shed feeding silage or hay. Looking to speed up the job and make it easier for myself. Not sure whether a straw chopper (something like a Mchale) or a bale unroller with a straw spreading kit. Got a smallish loading shovel or can use a tractor. What would suit best?

 

[hilux]

Forgot to add for sheep only.

 

[icanshootwell]

Forgot to add for sheep only.

My sheep don't seem to like the McHale, it pushes them into a bunch, a gentle unroller would be better.

 

[hilux]

Is that because of the noise or blowing straw over them?

 

[Pistonbroke]

With an unroller you are more limited on type of bale. Always use a chopper here, bought a used McHale yesterday,it's a lot quieter than our old kverneland. Blown about 40ft experimenting but not full revs

 

[Dave6170]

I like the look of this. No idea how good they are though

 

[Wombat]

I have one of these and find it a cracking thing for u rolling along side out locking yokes

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[bobajob]

It's a pity no one has managed to develop a machine that would gently pull a big square bale apart, a bit like an unroller for round bales.
Edit : I suppose those shredders that go on the front of the forklift do that.

 

[Matthew Britton]

It's a pity no one has managed to develop a machine that would gently pull a big square bale apart, a bit like an unroller for round bales.
Edit : I suppose those shredders that go on the front of the forklift do that.

The spread a bale kind of does that but they are a great unwieldy lump.

 

[Tomo23]

I'd say throwing 57ft would be a fair ask of any machine.

 

[David1968]

I'd say throwing 57ft would be a fair ask of any machine.

Kuhn will do it, but it's on its limit. And dependant on there not being a breeze coming the other way.

Even if you're about 10ft short, the sheep will drag it the rest of the way.

 

[Tomo23]

Kuhn will do it, but it's on its limit. And dependant on there not being a breeze coming the other way.

We run a teagle at work. It would reach just but most would of fallen to the floor by then with light fluffy straw. Our straw supplier seems to like adding weight by picking up stones on their riverside ground. Often send stones through as big as your fist. Sending one through at the revs required to blow 4 bays.

 

[icanshootwell]

Is that because of the noise or blowing straw over them?

A bit of both I think, cattle love it but sheep are easily spooked, i put silage in for them with the McHale and they got used to that.

 

[David1968]

We run a teagle at work. It would reach just but most would of fallen to the floor by then with light fluffy straw. Our straw supplier seems to like adding weight by picking up stones on their riverside ground. Often send stones through as big as your fist. Sending one through at the revs required to blow 4 bays.

Ouch

Fortunately I bale my own straw. Anything suspicious is kept separate to roll out in the bottom of freshly mucked out sheds.

 

[hilux]

I like the look of this. No idea how good they are though

That is the machine I was thinking of. Would you be able to put 1/2 6stringer bales of straw through it?

 

[Optimus]

We run a teagle at work. It would reach just but most would of fallen to the floor by then with light fluffy straw. Our straw supplier seems to like adding weight by picking up stones on their riverside ground. Often send stones through as big as your fist. Sending one through at the revs required to blow 4 bays.

I hit the back wall with the McHale it will be 50ft+.
Years ago I put stone the size of a size 4 football through the old machine.what a bang it was.bent a paddle and shot the stone 70ft across the middle shed.an hit the feed barrier on the far shed.it bent the diagonal feed barrier lucky no cow was there. Otherwise it was dead

 

[Tomo23]

Regularly get sparks out of ours. Bit of a pain really, we shut all cattle off the beds for blowing because of hitting them with stones. I think we'd be better shutting them onto the beds and running up the feed/scrape passage with a spread-a-bale, stones wouldn't have the velocity do any damage I shouldn't of thought.

At the time he bought the teagle we were putting silage bales through it as well so it was the machine for the job.

Run a bale unroller for silage now though so teagle just does straw.

 

[hilux]

Regularly get sparks out of ours. Bit of a pain really, we shut all cattle off the beds for blowing because of hitting them with stones. I think we'd be better shutting them onto the beds and running up the feed/scrape passage with a spread-a-bale, stones wouldn't have the velocity do any damage I shouldn't of thought.

At the time he bought the teagle we were putting silage bales through it as well so it was the machine for the job.

Run a bale unroller for silage now though so teagle just does straw.

Why do you run both?

 

[Pistonbroke]

Regularly get sparks out of ours. Bit of a pain really, we shut all cattle off the beds for blowing because of hitting them with stones. I think we'd be better shutting them onto the beds and running up the feed/scrape passage with a spread-a-bale, stones wouldn't have the velocity do any damage I shouldn't of thought.

At the time he bought the teagle we were putting silage bales through it as well so it was the machine for the job.

Run a bale unroller for silage now though so teagle just does straw.

I was putting an extra thick dose of straw in a shed before the farm assured bloke turned up when a sparky stone went through and set fire to the straw. Six bays on fire with the cattle bunched up in one to get away bit scary

 

[Tomo23]

Why do you run both?

Straw chopper was bought when we were on clamped first cut and baled second cut so weren't putting many out. Now we're all bales one can be bedding while the other is feeding out.