silage pushers

farmerjj

hi i.m going making a silage pusher the tyre type is there anything I need to watch out for when making it and also does anyone use one already and how do they find them...thanks

Mad4simmental

I was looking at doing the same at sum stage. There is allot of good ideas on YouTube.

Sharpshooter82

farmerjj wrote: »

hi i.m going making a silage pusher the tyre type is there anything I need to watch out for when making it and also does anyone use one already and how do they find them...thanks

Now there's an idea for my next project

td5man

Sharpshooter82 wrote: »

Now there's an idea for my next project

Ive one at the pre production stage here.

Sharpshooter82

td5man wrote: »

Ive one at the pre production stage here.

Nice, I don't need one but might treat the FIL.

keep going

Would the triangular one be as effective and easy to fabricate

Sharpshooter82

keep going wrote: »

Would the triangular one be as effective and easy to fabricate

I'm thinking two super single wheels with hubs welded together with a length of heavy box. Few sections of box iron up from that and then a length across with heavy box spaced for the times of the grab. Open to corrections here of course

jersey101

I seen a very good one in kildalton, they made up a braket for the front of the loader, just a rectangle the width of the headstock, put two lengths of pipe down each side, then got two super singles without hubs, got 2 circular plates and bolted them to one side of the tyre, put a bearing on the plates and put the pipe in the plate. It was a brilliant job you could push down on the tyres a good bit and you wouldnt have a hub hitting the ground.

farmerjj

just finished making it,looks like it works well so far but will need a wk or 2 to say for certain.. a cross sign bolted on 2 a tyre,with a heavy duty round bar placed inside another round bar and through the centre of the cross with heavy duty box at top for prong of grab to go through.. simple enough!!

Sharpshooter82

farmerjj wrote: »

just finished making it,looks like it works well so far but will need a wk or 2 to say for certain.. a cross sign bolted on 2 a tyre,with a heavy duty round bar placed inside another round bar and through the centre of the cross with heavy duty box at top for prong of grab to go through.. simple enough!!

That was quick, slap up an auld pic lad

farmerjj

Sharpshooter82 wrote: »

That was quick, slap up an auld pic lad

ha working out how to put a pic could take as long for me as making it

49801

Sounds like. Good effort. Pic?

I like the second one in this kemp YouTube clip as might be even able to get the father to use it.... He likes his db996 and is comfortable driving it and wound not have to turn around with a stiff neck

Nekarsulm

On a trip to Holland a few years ago, saw several made out of scrapped hay tedders . Haybob and Gemini type machines. The farmers had cut the cage off, but left the "fingers" that connect the cage to the hub. Then just bolted an old telehandler tyre to the five fingers on each side. must try and dig out the photos.

Sharpshooter82

td5man wrote: »

Ive one at the pre production stage here.

anymore on your project, was thinking of starting mine in the morning

Zr105

Are ye feeding just with the grab or with a diet feeder? Using diet feeder here and had made a tyre pusher a few years ago but it's been parked up the back since the first year. Was to much of a pain having to start the tractor just to go up pick it up and run the length of the shed. So ended up back forking it in as you'd have it done in the same length. Mind you it could have been easier picked up to.....

Made up frames to support timbers at an angle about 2ft6 out from the feed barrier this year and there brilliant, fill them up in the morning and forget about them, cattle are never hungry as we found no matter how many times a day you pushed it in they'd have it pushed away within 20 minutes

I you were careful you could probably fill them up with a grab aswell but might be better to have a steel bar at the top if doing that to protect the timbers

Nekarsulm

Here is the only pic. I can find. Had one of a pusher with 2 tyres, but can't find it. Just to confuse things, there is a grader blade sitting parked behind the pusher.
This was in Holland, and the silage they were feeding was seriously dry stuff.