Straw bedder for silage

[dusty]

Possibly looking to feed chopped leafy silage bales through a bedder. Has anyone got any good/bad experiences of this? Maybe just complicating the process.

 

[michael N123]

Mchale are made to do it

 

[DrDunc]

Put over 10,000 bales of chopped haylage (over 40% dry matter) through a Mchale. Silage bales are easier on the machine. As said, Mchale is the bedder designed to cope with the rigours of feeding bales

However my Mchale now "retired" from feeding, and only used for bedding now

Bought a hustler bale unroller. Only need one tractor to load and feed out. Use a thimble full of diesel in comparison, and there's far less metal getting worn out. Bedder is tidier and more even feeding out, but farmer is fitter with the unroller; I use a grape to tidy up and push in stuff the cows can't reach through the feed barrier

 

[Hfd Cattle]

As already stated McHale . We use one though this yr its only gonna do bedding as we have put feeding bins across front of shed for silage . Knife wear is quite high cutting silage along with diesel usage .

 

[Matt77]

A teagle will do clamp silage no problem, it struggled with unchopped round bales, needed plenty of shearbolts! we now have a Mchale.

 

[dusty]

Ok thanks. Sounds like a mchale is the only option. I was going to maybe try an unrolled first for the simplicity and diesel option but think I might have less bother with stuff getting dragged through onto slats with the bedder idea.

 

[milkloss]

We use a Lucas for pit silage which it does well. Silage bales are also fine but we don’t do many of those….. the feed is a little uneven as it east the bake which rolls away from the chopper as it’s centre of gravity changes.

 

[Hilly]

Possibly looking to feed chopped leafy silage bales through a bedder. Has anyone got any good/bad experiences of this? Maybe just complicating the process.

Mchail is the one !

 

[Hilly]

One in stock here !

 

[Stw88]

Ok thanks. Sounds like a mchale is the only option. I was going to maybe try an unrolled first for the simplicity and diesel option but think I might have less bother with stuff getting dragged through onto slats with the bedder idea.

If you have slats put some self locking yokes in. Worth the money! Everyone said that slats wouldn’t work for us as we feed dry haylage and they would just block with silage but the cattle put their heads through and don’t pull back through the yokes. (we don’t lock them in) we then feed with a bale unrolled down the frount, very little waste even if there is a questionable bale.

 

[bravheart]

One in stock here !

Have I missed the grand new shed opening then

 

[icanshootwell]

As already stated McHale . We use one though this yr its only gonna do bedding as we have put feeding bins across front of shed for silage . Knife wear is quite high cutting silage along with diesel usage .

This was the most shocking for us, the amount of diesel usage was high, ok when cheap but where it now you can afford to waste a bit of silage with cattle dragging a bit under them. We just use our McHale for mainly bedding now.

 

[Hilly]

Have I missed the grand new shed opening then

Not had the ceremony yet

 

[jondear]

This was the most shocking for us, the amount of diesel usage was high, ok when cheap but where it now you can afford to waste a bit of silage with cattle dragging a bit under them. We just use our McHale for mainly bedding now.

We used to feed slot of clamp through Lucas but stopped it and just bought a bigger shear grab and save the diesel it was considerable

 

[Gav]

Back when I was on the farm we did put silage bales through our Teagle, it would do it but it wasn’t happy doing it. You also had to be very careful or it would block.
As already said the McHale models are the best at that job (disclosurer - I sell them), we have customers putting straw and silage bales through them without a problem. We have also had one try carrots and sugar beet through the machine with silage, not as good as a dedicated wagon but it still done the job.

 

[sidjon]

MCHALE, we've ran KV which was OK on clamp silage, but not so great on bales, and had 3 Lucas first one was great and it went down hill from there, with the last one catching on fire, but do feed most bales with a hustler mounted on the loader, nice a cheap to run.

 

[Grass And Grain]

As already stated McHale . We use one though this yr its only gonna do bedding as we have put feeding bins across front of shed for silage . Knife wear is quite high cutting silage along with diesel usage .

Gow do you get on with the feeding bins? What's the design of them? Clamp or bales?

 

[Hfd Cattle]

Made four of them about 6 yrs ago .
Put 2 round bales in each @Grass And Grain

 

[Norfolk Hill Farmer]

Do you find you get less wasted with those feeders ?

@Hfd Cattle

 

[Hfd Cattle]

Do you find you get less wasted with those feeders ?

@Hfd Cattle

Yes.

Biggest is the waste is the 4 straw bales across the front but I change them every week so they are still OK for bedding ( cos I'm a tight old bugger)