Straw chopper

Hilly

Member
All the teagles I have ever used don't like wet/damp material. If you store your straw perfectly they run fine.

Lucas do that cool telehandler mounted machine which looks ace. Spreadable are alright but a slower job than chucking two quadrants in a blower and driving along the front of a shed.
Spread a bale are not slower than a blower lol 😂 no way Mine pumps hesstons out in seconds man .
 

Werzle

Member
Location
Midlands
All the teagles I have ever used don't like wet/damp material. If you store your straw perfectly they run fine.

Lucas do that cool telehandler mounted machine which looks ace. Spreadable are alright but a slower job than chucking two quadrants in a blower and driving along the front of a shed.
Old teagles would only spread perfect straw and hated stones. Straw choppers have improved since then . Im not a big fan of them because all i see is increased dust , increased fuel use , and straw in water tanks and on every ledge when i visit farms using them. Prefer bale spreaders than choppers.
 
Old teagles would only spread perfect straw and hated stones. Straw choppers have improved since then . Im not a big fan of them because all i see is increased dust , increased fuel use , and straw in water tanks and on every ledge when i visit farms using them. Prefer bale spreaders than choppers.

I didn't see much different from using the spread a bale in all honesty. Modern combines smash up the straw plenty.
 

milkloss

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Livestock Farmer
Location
East Sussex
You’re probably better off with a mchale seeing as how they’ve taken the best bits off everyone else’s designs...

I was told in the past that they hadn't quite copied some specs quite right. One of them was the gap where the bed chain comes round near the tailgate....... it was catching stones and breaking the bed chain. I suspect they've changed that now though,
 

Treemover

Member
Location
Offaly
We are on our second lucas. cannot fault them. I was at demos of other makes, and none would blow as good as the lucas. My dad had other makes on demo, and all except the McHale broke down on demo. I didn't like the McHale myself, it doesn't have a good stone trap, and at a demo I saw a stone catch in the floor, which wouldn't happen on the lucas. Maybe McHale have improved, this? I even run the lucas on the 35hp Kioti; so not hard drive. As the lucas is gearbox driven, you can run it as fast and hard as you want, I could make the nh 7740 really struggle on it; but theres no point bulling machines to grab a minute.
 

solo

Member
Location
worcestershire
I bought a McHale last winter due to poor straw bales and arm problems. Brilliant machine and saves about a third of the straw. Only downside is the control box will take 5-10 minutes to boot up on a cold morning, even though tractor is parked inside. Dealer is supposed to be sorting it, but has yet to happen after several requests. I would guess you may use the same dealer near Ross.

Don't go there unless I have to , have found them fast enough selling you kit but too slow looking after it after . .....will be Western Farm Equipment for a McHale if I go that way .recently bought a new wrapper of them and they were brilliant .
The dealer has today sent a new control box to rectify the issue with slow booting, so I can not fault his service. It may have been slow to arrive but I don’t know whether it was Michale, Rds or corona that caused the delay. It wasn’t urgent for me over the summer, so just glad it has been sorted ready for when the cattle are housed.
I hope yours goes well for you.
 

traineefarmer

Member
Mixed Farmer
Location
Mid Norfolk
Teagle all the way. Buy a bigger machine than the dealer tells you and you'll be happy. Twin rotors cope better with square bales.

We run an 11 year old 9090 and the only regular running costs is grease. The only machine on the farm that our stockman can't destroy. (Aside from running over the control box at least once a year!)
 

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