straw blower

Sid

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Livestock Farmer
Location
South Molton
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.

I agree with not wanting to roll out by hand but i don't like the idea of a blower in with stock.

7 acres of WC oats. 200 l of additive used at 2 litres a tonnes as per other crops he'd done and he had to cut the rate back to get to the end of the field.
 

had e nuff

Member
Location
Durham
Had a Kuhn for 5 years now. Works every day of the year. Mainly just square bales of straw but put round silage through it as well. Not tried it with pit silage. Had new slip clutch plates in but that is down to operator error.
 

DrDunc

Member
Livestock Farmer
Location
Dunsyre
Mchale tends to burn out drive belts , Teagle is chain driven , that's why we went with Teagle
I've had both.

The chain driven Teagle breaks shear bolts when you forget to reverse the floor before stopping with a partially dispensed bale, and restart with it touching the cross beater.

You then spend a wonderfully frustrating time pulling stuff out of the beater, and shoving a fence post into the spout to try and reverse the flywheel, otherwise you break another shearbolt.:mad:

The Mchale you start the flywheel, then engage the belt to start the beater, no drama.

If you do manage to block the Mchale (done it about 3 times in four years) you press the switch to hydraulically push back the comb above the beater, and insert the bar into the front on the machine which levers holes in the flywheel. This gets you going again in a couple of minutes, instead of what could be over an hour with the teagle.



If the belt is slipping on the Mchale, then you're trying to feed in mouldy straw too quickly. The beater comb needs to be moved rearward. I find this is most often necessary with full sized hestons.

I had to replace the belt on my Mchale after about 4000 bales of silage and about 500 tonnes of straw. The belt cost £120, a tiny price to pay for the hours saved compared to chain drive and shear bolts.
 

Einstien

Member
Nice to hear Organic Farmers still buying in non organic straw and using processed additives (100% Organic I'm sure, but still been through a chemical factory!)

Just saying like....

LoL
 

Sid

Member
Livestock Farmer
Location
South Molton
Nice to hear Organic Farmers still buying in non organic straw and using processed additives (100% Organic I'm sure, but still been through a chemical factory!)

Just saying like....

LoL
Didn't say it wasn't organic straw....and these additives are bacteria. So if you put a chemical near them they would be toast.

See you've moved forums cause you ran out of friends on the other one?
 

Einstien

Member
Don't worry if Sid does use a Straw Blower - it will be blowing the straw with Organic Air not this cr@p that the rest of us have to breathe :)
 

Einstien

Member
And this contributes to the discussion upon the merits of differing brands of feeder blowers how?


When you attack the person instead of their post, you've already lost the argument.

Don't worry - it's not an argument - it's a long standing debate about how Organic Milk is definitely NO BETTER than conventional milk just having a laugh - yes off topic, apologies, keep smiling.

I've got a Lucas Polyfeed 12 - good old machine, seems to cope with everything and will blow Organic Straw full of weed (Not that anyone uses Organic Straw ;-) )
 

Einstien

Member
Didn't say it wasn't organic straw....and these additives are bacteria. So if you put a chemical near them they would be toast.

I actually dont see any problem with organic additive, I was referring more to the fact that its something processed through an agrochemical lab, I'm sure its 100% organic after processing, just like milk :)
 

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