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What straw bedderHi to buy?
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<blockquote data-quote="Tarw Coch" data-source="post: 7789148" data-attributes="member: 1008"><p>Never used one on the front but they look awfully cumbersome things, with a bale being 8 foot, they must stick out 10/12 feet in front.</p><p>I see some of the front mounted can be hitched from the side which might be better, the straw will be coming it sideways to the direction of travel which I would think would be far more user friendly/practical than out the front but width could be an issue.</p><p></p><p>I have a trailer machine, demoed a mounted one many years ago and found it awkward around the yards, it stuck out a fair way, a bit like trying to negotiate your way around the yard with a plough on the back, a lot of tail swing and also need a reasonably heavy tractor on the front.</p><p></p><p>So trailed it is for me, my first was a KV, and I’m now on a Teagle.</p><p>Teagle, Mchale and Lucas seem popular according to similar threads on here although personally I don’t rate the build quality of my Teagle, I wouldn’t buy another, my old KV was far better built and lasted 15 years, main reason I changed was the KV was a side arm discharge which had two disadvantages, the chute sticking out the side had caught a shed post on several occasions, blame the driver if you like but a top swivel chute avoids that problem, also the chute was relatively narrow and would block too easily on less than ideal straw, the swivel chutes have a much larger opening.</p><p></p><p>So my opinion would be go for a trailed machine with top swivel chute, I’m not going to recommend a Teagle and the only other machine I’ve owned, a KV was of the wrong design ideally and would be over 20 years old now so I don’t know how their newer machines compare</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Tarw Coch, post: 7789148, member: 1008"] Never used one on the front but they look awfully cumbersome things, with a bale being 8 foot, they must stick out 10/12 feet in front. I see some of the front mounted can be hitched from the side which might be better, the straw will be coming it sideways to the direction of travel which I would think would be far more user friendly/practical than out the front but width could be an issue. I have a trailer machine, demoed a mounted one many years ago and found it awkward around the yards, it stuck out a fair way, a bit like trying to negotiate your way around the yard with a plough on the back, a lot of tail swing and also need a reasonably heavy tractor on the front. So trailed it is for me, my first was a KV, and I’m now on a Teagle. Teagle, Mchale and Lucas seem popular according to similar threads on here although personally I don’t rate the build quality of my Teagle, I wouldn’t buy another, my old KV was far better built and lasted 15 years, main reason I changed was the KV was a side arm discharge which had two disadvantages, the chute sticking out the side had caught a shed post on several occasions, blame the driver if you like but a top swivel chute avoids that problem, also the chute was relatively narrow and would block too easily on less than ideal straw, the swivel chutes have a much larger opening. So my opinion would be go for a trailed machine with top swivel chute, I’m not going to recommend a Teagle and the only other machine I’ve owned, a KV was of the wrong design ideally and would be over 20 years old now so I don’t know how their newer machines compare [/QUOTE]
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