straw blower

[Chips]

Bet can spread 5 ton of hesstons quicker with just a loader.

Yes but you would need to use 5 ton instead of the three ton Beef Farmer used .
I bought an old primor for £900 (plenty lying around in dealers yards) , doesn't have a blade on it and never managed to block it , so the straw is every bit as good as if every last inch was teased out by hand . Doesn't blow it as far as some mind

 

[Valmetal Inc]

Agrichopper handles perfectly straw, haulage, wet silage, bark and beet....it's one if few machines that chop straw for diet inclusion and it will blow chopped straw 45'......prices start from £16k....

 

[Valmetal Inc]

Hi Turboman, there's a couple of machines near you working if you want references from farmers...just contact me...and I can give you the details ...

 

[sidjon]

Using the chopper in anger now , can't believe how much better at handling clamp silage than the lucus, takes less than 2mins to unload 6m3 of silage unlike the old one which could take up to 15 minutes on a bad day, how are you getting on with yours @Cows 'n grass?

 

[Cows 'n grass]

Using the chopper in anger now , can't believe how much better at handling clamp silage than the lucus, takes less than 2mins to unload 6m3 of silage unlike the old one which could take up to 15 minutes on a bad day, how are you getting on with yours @Cows 'n grass?

So far so good. Putting out 4 rounds and 3 x 6 string Heston's of straw every day and it certainly beats using a fork. I haven't tried it on silage and I'm not sure if we ever will.

What size bales do you mostly use? Do you think you can stack two 6 string bales (not quadrants) of top of each other in the Lucas?

 

[sidjon]

So far so good. Putting out 4 rounds and 3 x 6 string Heston's of straw every day and it certainly beats using a fork. I haven't tried it on silage and I'm not sure if we ever will.

What size bales do you mostly use? Do you think you can stack two 6 string bales (not quadrants) of top of each other in the Lucas?

We could put 3 6 string bale of barley straw in it, two in there edge and one on top flat, worked okay but two on the flat was better. Our straw is all brought it, so think we get every size bale.

 

[Cows 'n grass]

We could put 3 6 string bale of barley straw in it, two in there edge and one on top flat, worked okay but two on the flat was better. Our straw is all brought it, so think we get every size bale.

Cheers. I haven't been brave enough to try more than one square at a time yet. Ours is mostly bought and it's in big 6 string bales the same width as a quadrant but I think they're 90cm high. What happens to the sheet of metal attached to the comb above the rotor if the bales are stacked higher than the rotor?

 

[sidjon]

It will get pushed up, just don't have spout facing backwards or it will be buggered as lid can jump up very fast and bye bye spout. ( I didn't do it but neighbour did).

 

[Cows 'n grass]

It will get pushed up, just don't have spout facing backwards or it will be buggered as lid can jump up very fast and bye bye spout. ( I didn't do it but neighbour did).

Thanks. It does seem a bit of a design fault that it's so easy to wipe out the spout.

 

[watfordfrosty]

I have got one for sale in the classifieds if any one after one only £1499

 

[Serup]

Cheers. I haven't been brave enough to try more than one square at a time yet. Ours is mostly bought and it's in big 6 string bales the same width as a quadrant but I think they're 90cm high. What happens to the sheet of metal attached to the comb above the rotor if the bales are stacked higher than the rotor?
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It's not a problem. I have a kuhn primor 3560 and i've run about 30.000 4x4 hestons through it over the years. If you work a little with the chain, it's possible to straw straight backwards without problems.