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Now I've got a telehandler I obviously want a value spreader to go on it.
Currently using 6 string Hestons. What's best value?
Currently using 6 string Hestons. What's best value?
Telehandler bale spreader
- Thread starter unlacedgecko
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what is your setup ? and how good is your straw ?
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Want to blow straw from a scrape way into a pen. Straw to be blown at 90 degrees from direction of travel.
Straw will be good at harvest, but stored outside so may get a bit clumpy as season goes on.
ACEngineering
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An old Sanderson 726 isnt man enough for a spreader bale?
You should have thought more about what you wanted to use on it before buying an old handler!
You need a 3.5ton lift machine ideally with a high flow piston pump. You can get away with gear pump but for long term reliability you want variable piston pump.
Sorry being blunt but it's just not going to work.
There are bale rollers they would be okay but not to shred a bale
would that work at 90 degrees
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There is an option to have brackets on side too but I dont know how you load the bale in with out another machine or unhooking it to pick up from end as normal?
I wonder if he means something like a teggle bale chopper blower? Old Sanderson wont be up to that either though?
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There is an option to have brackets on side too but I dont know how you load the bale in with out another machine or unhooking it to pick up from end as normal?
I wonder if he means something like a teggle bale chopper blower? Old Sanderson wont be up to that either though?
Well bugger ?
Nevermind, will do it the manual way till I make enough money to afford an upgraded telehandler and bake spreader to go with it.
At the time I just needed a telehandler. The Sanderson was close and within budget.
As long as I don't abuse her I should make my money back when I sell.
We're in a similar situation to you. Except we have a bendy machine which allows us to drop half a bale over a gate sideways from a 15' passage. Rigid machine struggles.
We line the bales up lengthwise along the passage (but on their sides), cut the strings, then use the muck grab to put a third of a bale at a time over the gate.
Spreadable do sell a side discharge model, but that may still be too heavy for your machine. Bale bandit do a telehandler-powered side discharge machine, and also do a trailed, PTO powered version (one of which was up on eBay a while back). All of this is academic if, as other posters have said, your hydraulics aren't up to it.
If it would suffice to push parts of a bale sideways off an implement, I may have a cunning plan. I have it in mind to make one for us when we ditch the artic, but could bring that plan forward if there's money in it!
We line the bales up lengthwise along the passage (but on their sides), cut the strings, then use the muck grab to put a third of a bale at a time over the gate.
Spreadable do sell a side discharge model, but that may still be too heavy for your machine. Bale bandit do a telehandler-powered side discharge machine, and also do a trailed, PTO powered version (one of which was up on eBay a while back). All of this is academic if, as other posters have said, your hydraulics aren't up to it.
If it would suffice to push parts of a bale sideways off an implement, I may have a cunning plan. I have it in mind to make one for us when we ditch the artic, but could bring that plan forward if there's money in it!
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We're in a similar situation to you. Except we have a bendy machine which allows us to drop half a bale over a gate sideways from a 15' passage. Rigid machine struggles.
We line the bales up lengthwise along the passage (but on their sides), cut the strings, then use the muck grab to put a third of a bale at a time over the gate.
Spreadable do sell a side discharge model, but that may still be too heavy for your machine. Bale bandit do a telehandler-powered side discharge machine, and also do a trailed, PTO powered version (one of which was up on eBay a while back). All of this is academic if, as other posters have said, your hydraulics aren't up to it.
If it would suffice to push parts of a bale sideways off an implement, I may have a cunning plan. I have it in mind to make one for us when we ditch the artic, but could bring that plan forward if there's money in it!
Tell me more.
Toying with idea of a gantry crane as a budget solution, if roof beams are strong enough...
For the job you/I need, a side discharge spreadable without the beaters would do the job. Maybe with a little slidey ramp where the beaters used to be.
ACEngineering
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if you had round bales you could have an un roller! i seen a customer with one to feed silage bales out, although still not going to blow it out a bedding. a old sanderson would handle that no bother.
Round bale unrolling certainly has a lower power requirement than straw chopping. But if we had round bales, we wouldn't be able to use this:
Best. Machine. Ever.
And it sounds like @unlacedgecko is in hesston country, unfortunately. But it's ok, he needed to work on his upper body strength anyway...
A neighbour has something like this Warthog spreader which is very simple but you have to drive in the pen. May just be easier to roll out rounds or dump the hestons in the pen, remove the strings and let the cattle nock them about?
ollie989898
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To be honest, I have worked with a spreadabale and loading the thing with forks and then hitching it onto the handler and connecting two pipes is not a big deal. Doesn't take long.
Spreadabales are dead simple and pretty reliable, they go on for years.
Spreadabales are dead simple and pretty reliable, they go on for years.
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Hi Everyone
From reading this thread sounds as though our Telehawk may work for you.
Watch the video of our Telehawk bedding in loose housing.
Any questions please email: [email protected] and let us know what area you are from and the machine you are interested in.
From reading this thread sounds as though our Telehawk may work for you.
Watch the video of our Telehawk bedding in loose housing.
Any questions please email: [email protected] and let us know what area you are from and the machine you are interested in.
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The stock can spread about the bedding. I'm just looking for a way to get the bales into the pen without driving in.
ACEngineering
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Clearly not read the thread as you would know the OP has an old sanderson 726 and wont be up to powering a spreader bale or blower like yours, at least not in my opinion anyway.