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Roto Spike Bale Unroller

  • 09-11-2014 10:36pm
    #1
    Upstream
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 288 ✭✭


    Are these any good?
    http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=4GxGqQzFcZw

    I'm looking to handle chopped round bales of silage in a double sided slated shed.

    Or would I be better getting a bale splitter like a McHale. I think the unroller is around €1000 and a bale chopper is around €1400. Budget won't stretch to the likes of a Hustler or a Blayney Forager X10.

    I know a few people with the choppers, but no one with an unroller. Any folks here seen or used them?


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  • #2
    F.D
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 718 ✭✭✭F.D


    If the bale is well chopped already, will it not just fall off the spike in a big lump
    i would imagine these would only work on unchopped bales


  • #3
    Brass Tag
    Closed Accounts Posts: 141 ✭✭Brass Tag


    The splitter is a better job.
    For example, very handy to split a bale in two halves when you want to throw a limited amount of silage in a round feeder to a few cattle. Opening a full bale outside that will last maybe a week, leads to a lot of waste.
    Just split the bale in two, from top to bottom if you know what I mean.
    Tip one half up on its end, leaving the plastic on.
    Pick up with the forks underneath. Bring to round feeder. Let them eat it out of the plastic.
    The other half can be fed to other cattle if possible, OR, tip up on its opposite end with open face down, and plastic end up. Bale will seal, and you will get little or no heating.


  • #4
    towzer2010
    Closed Accounts Posts: 533 ✭✭✭towzer2010


    Upstream wrote: »
    Are these any good?
    http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=4GxGqQzFcZw

    I'm looking to handle chopped round bales of silage in a double sided slated shed.

    Or would I be better getting a bale splitter like a McHale. I think the unroller is around €1000 and a bale chopper is around €1400. Budget won't stretch to the likes of a Hustler or a Blayney Forager X10.

    I know a few people with the choppers, but no one with an unroller. Any folks here seen or used them?

    If they are chopped the unroller won't work I'd say. Mine are chopped and they break up if you do any handling on them with the net off using a normal spike.


  • #5
    Upstream
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 288 ✭✭Upstream


    towzer2010 wrote: »
    If they are chopped the unroller won't work I'd say. Mine are chopped and they break up if you do any handling on them with the net off using a normal spike.

    That's what I was thinking might happen.
    I looked on Bridgeway's site and the brochure it could handle chopped bales, just leave the net on until you were ready to unroll.
    But I'd like to see it before I would believe it.


  • #6
    Upstream
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 288 ✭✭Upstream


    Found an old thread on them here. Lad seemed happy enough with his purchase when he got it. I wonder how he got on after.

    http://touch.boards.ie/thread/post/75581086

    Wonder is there anyone on here using them now.


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  • #7
    Farmer Pudsey
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,326 ✭✭✭Farmer Pudsey


    If bales are chopped the they will fall apart on first unwind. TBH I try to drop a single bale in front og each pen then when half eaten push over. If it will be eaten in 3 day this will work nicely. Can never see the facination of unwinding bales unless limiting feed.


  • #8
    Upstream
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 288 ✭✭Upstream


    Farmer Pudsey wrote: »
    If bales are chopped the they will fall apart on first unwind. TBH I try to drop a single bale in front og each pen then when half eaten push over. If it will be eaten in 3 day this will work nicely. Can never see the facination of unwinding bales unless limiting feed.

    I suppose the less splitting or unrolling you do at them, the better they will keep.
    Do you stand the bales on their ends or on their sides to push them over?


  • #9
    Farmer Pudsey
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,326 ✭✭✭Farmer Pudsey


    Upstream wrote: »
    I suppose the less splitting or unrolling you do at them, the better they will keep.
    Do you stand the bales on their ends or on their sides to push them over?

    On the sides. If on end the bale as it is eaten tends ro fall back away from barrier. Another trick is to push the half bales back into the middle pens and feed new bales at the outer pens.


  • #10
    Upstream
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 288 ✭✭Upstream


    Farmer Pudsey wrote: »
    On the sides. If on end the bale as it is eaten tends ro fall back away from barrier. Another trick is to push the half bales back into the middle pens and feed new bales at the outer pens.

    Thanks, will try the next bales to go in on their sides and see how they fare. Looking to keep the grasping to a minimum, and not have the bales going off either.


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