Trailing shoe with mounted reelers

Niall310

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We're looking for a S/H trailing shoe to suit 4 point linkage on a current tanker.
We'd like to keep our options open so it would be ideal if it could work with a mounted reeler on an umbilical in the future.
Has anyone adapted trailing shoes to work with mounted reelers or vice versa?

Also any opinions on Slootsmid trailing shoes?

Thanks in advance!

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Speedstar

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Location
Scottish Borders
we have a Joskin 7.75 meter wide trailing shoe we may sell that can do tanker or umbilical cord ,as for one to work with a back reeler I think you will find it very hard to get one
 

davedb

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Location
Staffordshire
A trailing shoe with a reeler is not going to work well unless you just had 600m or so single bobbin there’s going to be a lot of weight on the back of the tractor due to the design of a trailing shoe you can’t get a reeler to sit very close why not just have A frames on everything and drop it off? That’s what I do and just use a front reeler for small field moves
 

Niall310

Member
we have a Joskin 7.75 meter wide trailing shoe we may sell that can do tanker or umbilical cord ,as for one to work with a back reeler I think you will
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find it very hard to get one
Right, and how do you find the Joskin? There a slootsmid failry close to us for sale and reasonable money so that's what made us think of it.
I see slurrykat have a reeler that works with trailing shoes now but that only suits a slurrykat trailing shoe.
 

Niall310

Member
A trailing shoe with a reeler is not going to work well unless you just had 600m or so single bobbin there’s going to be a lot of weight on the back of the tractor due to the design of a trailing shoe you can’t get a reeler to sit very close why not just have A frames on everything and drop it off? That’s what I do and just use a front reeler for small field moves
So you mean drop the trailing shoe off and hook a reeler on for example?
again this isn't for right now but just keeping options open.
1200m would do alot of the work around here so 600m front and 600m back.
A frames front and back, with some kind of extension or linkage to pick the reeler up at the back while still coupled to the trailing shoe.
 

Niall310

Member
8.2 m slootsmid shoe mounted on a tanker. Really good bit of gear. The only thing about ours is , it is bolted on to the tanker.

How well has the macerator worked for you?
Does it block much?
Does it cost much to replace wearing parts etc?
 

Speedstar

Member
Location
Scottish Borders
Right, and how do you find the Joskin? There a slootsmid failry close to us for sale and reasonable money so that's what made us think of it.
I see slurrykat have a reeler that works with trailing shoes now but that only suits a slurrykat trailing shoe.
We have got on very well with Joskin trailing shoe & would had another one if they had made a 12 meter machine which they do not.I have no idea what a slootsmid one will be like I have never seen one
 

bez

Member
Sounds good!
would you be handling slurry with bits of silage in it or clean thin slurry?
The majority of our work would be clean slurry(if there is such a thing).
If you have a lot of silage you need to make sure the disc’s in the macerator are adjusted correctly .
To be brutally honest if I think it’s going to be really bad I take the tanker with the splash plate:whistle:
We have a dribble bar with Vogelsang macerators on it and I don’t think they are any better or worse than the Slootsmid.
Most of that equipment coming from that part of the world seems to be up to the job.
 

Niall310

Member
The majority of our work would be clean slurry(if there is such a thing).
If you have a lot of silage you need to make sure the disc’s in the macerator are adjusted correctly .
To be brutally honest if I think it’s going to be really bad I take the tanker with the splash plate:whistle:
We have a dribble bar with Vogelsang macerators on it and I don’t think they are any better or worse than the Slootsmid.
Most of that equipment coming from that part of the world seems to be up to the job.

That'd be a good comparison then, so I'd say the Slootsmid seems as good as the rest and should do our job.
Aquip and Mastek stuff is good but not much available 2nd hand and we can't justify new.
Thanks for the reply's!
 

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