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Mucking out with mini digger.

  • 10-02-2014 9:36pm
    #1
    Pacoa
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 520 ✭✭✭


    Would it be possible to clean out straw bedded sheds with a mini digger or would
    it just be very frustrating?
    Anyone here doing it?
    Mini digger would be awfully handy round here for other jobs too. What do yee think?


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  • #2
    sawdoubters
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 1,288 ✭✭✭sawdoubters


    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AGmQpix-xHc


  • #3
    Pacoa
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 520 ✭✭✭Pacoa


    That didn't look like mucking out to me, that looks like making a mess :)


  • #4
    Midlandsman80
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 247 ✭✭Midlandsman80


    If it were just for mucking out id far prefer a skid steer


  • #5
    rancher
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,142 ✭✭✭rancher


    Pacoa wrote: »
    Would it be possible to clean out straw bedded sheds with a mini digger or would
    it just be very frustrating?
    Anyone here doing it?
    Mini digger would be awfully handy round here for other jobs too. What do yee think?

    I have my sheep straw bedded in a slatted cattle shed, slats are shook.
    Clean it out every year with a JCB microdigger
    2 sheds 75ft by 24ft, and the dung about 12ins deep....clean them out in two days
    Throw it over the barrier into the feeding passage
    Better than a fork


  • #6
    Pacoa
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 520 ✭✭✭Pacoa


    I have my sheep straw bedded in a slatted cattle shed, slats are shook.

    Do you drive on the slats?


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  • #7
    Pacoa
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 520 ✭✭✭Pacoa


    If it were just for mucking out id far prefer a skid steer

    I have a skidd steer but its getting shook like meself.
    Been on the lookout for one but there doesn't seem to be too many second hand around at the moment but theres plenty of mini diggers.


  • #8
    rancher
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,142 ✭✭✭rancher


    Pacoa wrote: »
    Do you drive on the slats?

    Yes. The digger is only .75 tonne spread on two tracks, no weight at all
    No teeth in the bucket, levelling bucket I think.
    Don't do it until sept/oct when the dung is rotten


  • #9
    rancher
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,142 ✭✭✭rancher


    Pacoa wrote: »
    I have a skidd steer but its getting shook like meself.
    Been on the lookout for one but there doesn't seem to be too many second hand around at the moment but theres plenty of mini diggers.

    I wouldn't use a skid steer, there's fair weigh on the front two wheels when you lift the fork, you have the whole weight of the skid steer + the dung because you're balncing


  • #10
    Reggie.
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 24,546 ✭✭✭✭Reggie.


    Pacoa wrote: »
    Would it be possible to clean out straw bedded sheds with a mini digger or would
    it just be very frustrating?
    Anyone here doing it?
    Mini digger would be awfully handy round here for other jobs too. What do yee think?

    Give lakill farm a pm as I believe he uses a 3 tonne around his place


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