Ways to chop beet

[robin banks]

Was with a neighbour and watched him feed beet. He buys washed beet then has to chop it with a tanco beet chopper into an Abbey paddle diet feeder that has knives. He says diet feeder was useless to chop beet. Are tub feeders better or is it preferable to pre chop beet then mix

 

[pappuller]

Was with a neighbour and watched him feed beet. He buys washed beet then has to chop it with a tanco beet chopper into an Abbey paddle diet feeder that has knives. He says diet feeder was useless to chop beet. Are tub feeders better or is it preferable to pre chop beet then mix

Weve just finished feeding beet mixing in an abbey tub mixer with grass silage and blend, waste of time without beet knives or leave it spinning for 10 mins on 1000 rpm

 

[Tarw Coch]

I haven't used much beet so have limited experience but putting it through our KV832 straw shredder obliterated it to the point you'd have a job finding anything bigger than a marble.

But this was only done as a bit of an experiment so I have no long term experience on the effect on the machine although it seemed to go through no problem whatsoever. Stones would be my biggest concern although you can of course get small stones in straw too, I don't have enough experience of beet to know how large a stone could come in that.

 

[ARW]

Sharp spade!

 

[Beef farmer]

I haven't used much beet so have limited experience but putting it through our KV832 straw shredder obliterated it to the point you'd have a job finding anything bigger than a marble.

But this was only done as a bit of an experiment so I have no long term experience on the effect on the machine although it seemed to go through no problem whatsoever. Stones would be my biggest concern although you can of course get small stones in straw too, I don't have enough experience of beet to know how large a stone could come in that.

As big as the beet. So a 15+kg stone may have lasting effects.

 

[had e nuff]

Why the need to have it chopped. Cattle have teeth and can easily eat whole beet.

 

[marshfarmer]

Why the need to have it chopped. Cattle have teeth and can easily eat whole beet.

They can easily choke too....
Anytime my auger bucket has been broken and I have tipped whole beet it they seem to waste more energy chasing them round the troughs trying to knock lumps off them than they get from what they eat. I do grow the highest dm ones I can get tho, so very hard.

 

[Turra farmer]

Ritchie root bucket for 3 point linkage , surplus to requirements here

 

[Only]

Ritchie root bucket for 3 point linkage , surplus to requirements here

Where r u

 

[Turra farmer]

Where r u

Aberdeenshire , you ?

 

[early riser]

When I used to feed it I just tipped it whole/unchopped on top of silage in ring feeders, never had a cow choke

 

[Bald Rick]

Pre chop with KW auger bucket then add measured amount in to diet feeder. Doesn't stop the cows sorting out to get at it though but it does a nice distribution job across the TMR

 

[Dalos]

We do a concentrate pre mix each morning, as we are are doing 3 mixes using the same ratios of ingredients so i put the beet in first then all the conc. that go in the mixes then put it what is not needed in the first load back on the floor in front of the silage face.
THis leaves the beet chopped down to 50 pence piece sizes chunks, whereas before we could only get the beet down to fist size pieces.

The conc. holds the beet solidly for the knives to cut it where if its in with silage then the beet is able to move out of the way of the knives easier so does not get chopped.

 

[Ducati899]

Chuck it straight in my Shelbourne tub after maize and wholecrop and before the silage goes in,by the time I've chucked all this in and then put concentrates and molasses in is about 25 minutes,don't need to leave it mixing after that,wagon running at 500rpm

I've not seen one bit of beet left in feed passage come next Feed time

 

[Ducati899]

Wouldn't say there's much wrong with that

 

[Mc115reed]

Fill the dual spreader up and give it hell into a bunker it'll soon mince them up [emoji1360][emoji23]