As above can't decide. Quite like the Wessex bale unroller with the straw spreader attachment for the telehandler and trailed machines look good as well. I'm more interested in opinions between the two different methods. Actual brands will come down to local dealers. Can you get a loader mounted spreader than can swivel side to side slightly for bedding pens?
Which straw spreader, Loader mounted or trailed?
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...and can I add that would one of these Wessex straw spreaders be ok to bed cubicles?
Tarw Coch
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Teagle do their tele hawk I think they call it, similar to their trailed machines but fits on the front of a loader.
Personally I'd prefer a trailed one, reckon something sticking out that far in front and reducing visibility wouldn't be the best around most farm yards.
Will depend on the machine you have to put it on.
I'm in the process of looking at this. Went to see a neighbour who has a Lucas Castor 20 yesterday. I was impressed at how manoeuvrable it was in tight spaces and how the distance of throw meant he could cover his sheds. Only disadvantage is size of tractor needed. He was running on a JD 6140R but it managed it without any front weights. Other neighbours have spread-a-bale on handlers. They take more room and are less flexible from what I have seen.
It's all a question of your machine availability and building layout. The Lucas really impressed me.
Used 1 off these along time ago, couldn't fault it, ran on the back of an old international to straw turkey sheds.
Valmetal Inc
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ever considered a self propelled...
ollie989898
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I have seen a fairly conventional straw chopper with a chute that you can mount on the front of a handler. I cannot for the life of me remember the brand, however.
foxbox
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ollie989898
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I can't remember, but I seem to remember the machine I saw on a farm ages ago being all orange or yellow.
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Tarw Coch
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Pretty sure that Robert make a handler mounted one too, Infact I'm pretty sure that a local dealer said he's sold one although he didn't tell me who to.
Tarw Coch
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Here we go
Dman2
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Gonna need a fair telehandler to cope with one of those?
boots
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Only thing In see against a handler mounted one is the hooking on & off all the time, if you need to use another attachment for feeding, yeah it maybe only takes a minute or so but it can start to annoy after a while....have a mounted one here on an old tractor that does nothing else, someday it will be upgraded to a trailed.
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