Where did you get it and what sort of money?
What's everyone bedding their cubicles up with?
- Thread starter Splitpin
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I bought it from plant mec in N I it was around 14 k euro + tax that was in 2015 there seems to be a 6mth waiting list atm according to some friends of mine who are trying to get one.
Scholsey
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- Location
- Herefordshire
Gone onto envirobed paper waste/sawdust mix and stays on the bed longer than just sawdust on it’s own, 2 bags of sawdust mixed in with 2 big wheelbarrows of envirobed does 220 cupicles with 150 cows lying in them. Use a bag of lime every other day, that’s on Duel chamber water beds so is more of a drying medium than for comfort.
farmer on a bike
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If anyone out there is looking for one. We have our one for sale. we used it for just over a year but have now swapped to green bedding which it cant cope with. brilliant machine for sawdust. We were about to advertise it now the green bedding has settled in.
- Location
- East Tyrone
We've been using Sublime (sawdust/lime mix) since the start of the year. Pleased with it so far, a not overly dusty.
- Location
- Acton Scott, South Shropshire
We have been using a bobman for 12+ years. We have just swapped from lime to a product called Mistral which is popular in France apparently - anyone else have any experience of it?
YELROM
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- Location
- North Yorkshire
Are you just dusting it on rather than bedding them on it?
- Location
- Acton Scott, South Shropshire
Dusting on with sawdust - too expensive to bed on it
Headless chicken
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- Location
- West Wales
I may be interested price dependent
holywell farmer
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- Location
- holywell, north wales
I herd how gypsum can increase how deadly the gasses are in slurry whilst mixing.
Farmerfallace
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yes iv heard that gases are bad with gypsum stuff, neighbours cattle collapsed when they where pumping.. cattle standing above slats apparently...Not really for me that, id value life..iv used that cosibed stuff this second half of the winter. worked bloody well to be honest. mind you iv had them all this year just to try and see, platts, nw resources, envirosystems.. .. especially with the straw job getting so bad everything is getting so much.. what is boreco?
Farmerfallace
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you still using that stuff Yorkshire? hows the straw up there?can you get any?
Envirofarm
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- Location
- Leicestershire
Yes it does. Gypsum powder is not safe to use in a slurry situation as the agitation in the tanks causes sulphur to off gas.
Scholsey
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- Location
- Herefordshire
anyone else have problems with plastic in with recycled paper bedding? I understand It must be extremely difficult to sort the plastic out but covering our fields in tiny bits of plastic surely isn’t legal?
Have more bad than good loads but can’t carry on like this.
These pieces are just from 1 cubicle bedded this morning, the paper they are on is a4 for scale so it isn’t the odd minuscule piece.
Not going to put name of supplier on here but they have been previously mentioned in other threads.
Have more bad than good loads but can’t carry on like this.
These pieces are just from 1 cubicle bedded this morning, the paper they are on is a4 for scale so it isn’t the odd minuscule piece.
Not going to put name of supplier on here but they have been previously mentioned in other threads.
Scholsey
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- Location
- Herefordshire
What bulk sawdust/shavings do people use and how do slats/scrapers/channels cope with it?
- Location
- North Yorkshire
We are using NW Resources for their economy bulk sawdust. Very fine, very dusty but also very good. No massive chunks in it like some we’ve had previously abs their prices seem spot on too. Scraper/channels/separator manage it fine. Our separator would soon let us know if it wasn’t to taste! Had a sample of their grade1/2/premium stuff too and it all seems nice. Might gather a load of their grade 2 one day if we’re feeling flush!
Scholsey
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- Location
- Herefordshire
Are You still pleased with the easicattle?
- Location
- North Yorkshire
Yeah it’s good stuff. Only issue is we need to blow the air filters out pretty frequently so thinking about ordering a load of the grade 2 and mixing half and half to try lowering the dust quantity. However not feeling that flush yet
- Location
- North Yorkshire
Also just read this properly
ours isn’t the easicattle which would be too big for our separator. Ours is invoiced as economy dry sawdust. Can’t remember what that appears as on their website as it’s a little bit like sticking a kid in a sweet shop when I look on there Matt was very helpful though when I rang him and did send free samples out too so I could check I’d asked for what I actually wanted