Multi Shear or Shear bucket

Tail painter

My old tighe shear grab has passed away after 27 years of service. I am using pit and bales now so I think a grab to handle both would be a good idea. I am undecided between a Tanco 175 multishear or a Prodig shear bucket. I am concerned that the rams on the outside of the Tanco will be prone to damage. On the other hand the shear bucket may be hard to push into a pit. The prodig is €700 more expensive. Any opinions?

grazeaway

Tail painter wrote: »

My old tighe shear grab has passed away after 27 years of service. I am using pit and bales now so I think a grab to handle both would be a good idea. I am undecided between a Tanco 175 multishear or a Prodig shear bucket. I am concerned that the rams on the outside of the Tanco will be prone to damage. On the other hand the shear bucket may be hard to push into a pit. The prodig is €700 more expensive. Any opinions?

Is it precision chop or silage wagon silage?

Zr105

Tail painter wrote: »

My old tighe shear grab has passed away after 27 years of service. I am using pit and bales now so I think a grab to handle both would be a good idea. I am undecided between a Tanco 175 multishear or a Prodig shear bucket. I am concerned that the rams on the outside of the Tanco will be prone to damage. On the other hand the shear bucket may be hard to push into a pit. The prodig is €700 more expensive. Any opinions?

What size/ sorta money is the prodig if you don't mind me asking? They look fairly handy don't they?

I think the thing with them is you don't try to push it full in if you get me, take shallower cuts which would be better really as you'd cross the pit quicker. Would need to be kept as sharp as possible tho,

I don't like the look of the tanco at all, the Rams are very prone IMO and would also make it very hard to get anyway close to the wall so you'd be left with a big wedge against it to pull down, also by there design they'd be pulling silage into the seals every time you close the grab if there was any out around the ram at all.
Also the bucket being a latch on sorta yoke could be a pain, I know I'd always be worried the day you'd be in a hurry it wouldn't latch right and would end up in the bloody feeder or something...

Timmaay

Is the shear bucket designed for bales? I think it's total overkill, only justifiably if your feeding 1000s of tons of maize or similar loosely packet feed. Use a normal sheargrab here for all the precision cut pit silage, 150tons of maize and all the bales. The bales we obviously got to open manually but I've got that down to a fine enough art by now.

Tail painter

grazeaway wrote: »

Is it precision chop or silage wagon silage?

Its precision chop? Would the shear bucket be unsuitable for wagon silage? I dont want to limit my options for the future.

Tail painter

Zr105 wrote: »

What size/ sorta money is the prodig if you don't mind me asking? They look fairly handy don't they?

I think the thing with them is you don't try to push it full in if you get me, take shallower cuts which would be better really as you'd cross the pit quicker. Would need to be kept as sharp as possible tho,

I don't like the look of the tanco at all, the Rams are very prone IMO and would also make it very hard to get anyway close to the wall so you'd be left with a big wedge against it to pull down, also by there design they'd be pulling silage into the seals every time you close the grab if there was any out around the ram at all.
Also the bucket being a latch on sorta yoke could be a pain, I know I'd always be worried the day you'd be in a hurry it wouldn't latch right and would end up in the bloody feeder or something...

The Prodig is 5100 for a 1.8m grab. The Tanco is 4400 for a similar size with standard tines. Hardox tines are extra but I didn't price them as I'm told that it is difficult to shake silage off them.

Tail painter

Timmaay wrote: »

Is the shear bucket designed for bales? I think it's total overkill, only justifiably if your feeding 1000s of tons of maize or similar loosely packet feed. Use a normal sheargrab here for all the precision cut pit silage, 150tons of maize and all the bales. The bales we obviously got to open manually but I've got that down to a fine enough art by now.

I will be travelling to an outfarm which has a mixture of pit and bales. I want one grab to do the lot if possible

Zr105

Timmaay wrote: »

Is the shear bucket designed for bales? I think it's total overkill, only justifiably if your feeding 1000s of tons of maize or similar loosely packet feed. Use a normal sheargrab here for all the precision cut pit silage, 150tons of maize and all the bales. The bales we obviously got to open manually but I've got that down to a fine enough art by now.

Yeah the prodig one is designed to open bales and has a clamp for the net/wrap!