straw blower
- Thread starter sidjon
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- Hampshire
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- Wirral
buffalo_soldier
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- cumbria
Bought a Teagle about 3 years ago and I've not managed to break it yet. So going well. Dad doesn't use it though and I don't have any high hp tractors either, that might have something to do with it.
Use it for square bales though so no idea what it would be like with rounds.
Dust and stones are down to the straw and not the machine.
Lift your combine header up a bit @Sid
Use it for square bales though so no idea what it would be like with rounds.
Dust and stones are down to the straw and not the machine.
Lift your combine header up a bit @Sid
- Location
- South Molton
Your talking about not wanting a complicated machine to bed cows milked by a
Complicated machine
Any parlour is complicated. I have spare capacity planned for the robots that will save me labour costs. I'm not having a straw blower sat there just in case.
Never had a single stone ever?
Must be that organic straw. Full of dust and stones....
Nope the weeds supress the dust and the crop doesn't go flat cause its so crap 14t acre from wholecrop this year. Really crap?
If you can tell how stoney or dusty the straw will be from looking at a bale you must be psychic!
Straw is bought in so have no control over stones.
buffalo_soldier
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Insane Ubolt
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- North Yorkshire
Not wanting to hijack this thread but,
Is any body using a teagle. With Duel Chop ( the short chop kit)
Thanks
Is any body using a teagle. With Duel Chop ( the short chop kit)
Thanks
dinderleat
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- Wells
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- South Molton
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- South Molton
Haha you want a row with everyone today
My straw is bought in also. I would say i have a great deal of control over quality, otherwise they would be taking it back.
I've had dubious quality straw. once its unloaded and in the shed for 3months they don't wanna know
buffalo_soldier
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- South Molton
Buy off a localish farmer for some. Dealer for some and standing for rounds.
Cows 'n grass
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- Modbury, South Devon
I think it was getting on for 14k. Sidjon has obviously had trouble with his but if you read all the various threads in here the vast majority recomend the Lucas and I spoke to a couple of people locally who have teagle's and the both said they with that had bought the Lucas.
I had 250 cows on straw last January and we were rolling out 5 or 6 rounds a day then spreading them with a fork. It was fine mon to Fri when there were 2 of us but most weekends I was there by myself and it was no fun. This year we will have 450 + in doors by the end of January and I'm not doing that by myself. A young lad who works here will happily come in for a couple of hours at weekends of he can just sit on a comfy tractor but i dont expect him to spend 4 hours with a pitch fork so for me buying a blower was a no brainer.
As for your 14t/ac organic wholecrop, i call bollox on that one, theres no point arguing but I simply don't believe you.
Docks and thistles do weigh heavy
thanks for the reply's i think machine caught fire (will put up pic when i understand new the phone which came yesterday) with last years straw, think it was a flint but not had any stoney bales, this is my third Lucas, wore out the first ruc30, had it for 10 years never broke down ,the last ruc 30 no problems with it, but running silage to the cows on the other farm was taking to much time so got a ruc 60 to cut down travel time between farms, it was sh!t from the start bed chain would jump off on one side only, turned out it was a seized oil motor, it failed last winter again taking out feed drum and causing a big mess, the build quality has got worse with each machine i purchased, hope ours was just a friday afternoon machine for @Cows 'n grass sake!
is anyone have a Kverneland 856 PRO? had 3 reps in today everbody seems to know......
machine caught fire (will put up pic when i understand new the phone which came yesterday) with last years straw, think it was a flint but not had any stoney bales, this is my third Lucas, wore out the first ruc30, had it for 10 years never broke down ,the last ruc 30 no problems with it, but running silage to the cows on the other farm was taking to much time so got a ruc 60 to cut down travel time between farms, it was sh!t from the start bed chain would jump off on one side only, turned out it was a seized oil motor, it failed last winter again taking out feed drum and causing a big mess, the build quality has got worse with each machine i purchased, hope ours was just a friday afternoon machine for @Cows 'n grass sake!is anyone have a Kverneland 856 PRO? had 3 reps in today everbody seems to know......
Cows 'n grass
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I had the small kvernland on demo, i think it was an 853. It seemed like a good machine but it made me realize I needed a 6 cube machine and i was told the 856 wouldn't take round bale silage, only clamp. I don't actually want to feed round bales at the moment but I didn't want to rule out the option.
I thought the McHale looked the best of the bunch but unfortunately they only make a 3 cube at the moment.
I thought the McHale looked the best of the bunch but unfortunately they only make a 3 cube at the moment.
Mchale looked at the design of all their competition.
They took the best bits from each machines, said to hell with patent law, added a few excellent features of their own, and produced something that can feed out silage bales like no other on the market.
But they only make a single bale body version.
They took the best bits from each machines, said to hell with patent law, added a few excellent features of their own, and produced something that can feed out silage bales like no other on the market.
But they only make a single bale body version.
on the mchale site looks like the 460 does a longer one from the photos?
Aye, but to take two 5 foot bales, not 2 four foot bales in the body and one on the tailgate.