Cleaning out straw bedded sheds

josephsoap

I have a old muck fork here that's seen better days.......

I'm just wondering would I better off buying a tine or shear grab for cleaning out straw bedded sheds? (no pit silage made here)

I find with the muck fork the load is not secure and as I drive towards the trailer a lot of the load could and does fall off.

That's why I'm leaning towards buying a tine grab this time to tighten in the load.

Just enquiring what do most use to clean out their sheds with?

X6.430macman

if you don't make any pit silage than I would get the tine grab. I use a dung fork which I find grand.

yellow50HX

Yeah tine grab would be best, also cheaper and lighter.

I actaully use a fork instead of the grab but I have an extra long tine in the middle about a foot higher then the rest. I put it on to hold the silage bales better and fit it also holds the dung very well when clean out the sheds. I swap over to the bucket to get the last bits out.

What kind of loader/ tractor have you?

tractorporn

josephsoap wrote:

Just enquiring what do most use to clean out their sheds with?

We clean all the straw bedded sheds with a 6ft bucket, it's great leaves nothing behind and the yard isn't covered in dung that falls out of a fork.

howdee

Bucket grab combo used here for everything. Only job and very little spills.

bogman_bass

josephsoap wrote: »

I have a old muck fork here that's seen better days.......

I'm just wondering would I better off buying a tine or shear grab for cleaning out straw bedded sheds? (no pit silage made here)

I find with the muck fork the load is not secure and as I drive towards the trailer a lot of the load could and does fall off.

That's why I'm leaning towards buying a tine grab this time to tighten in the load.

Just enquiring what do most use to clean out their sheds with?

I use a dung fork. You'll still have some degree of spillage with the grab. let it spill and just pick it up at the end. a grab is going to cost you what? 300 more than a fork? I rather have that money in my pocket

josephsoap

Cheers for the input folks,

I will keep an eye on donedeal now for a tine grab.

It could also be useful for feeding bale silage with.

greenpetrol

josephsoap wrote: »

Cheers for the input folks,

I will keep an eye on donedeal now for a tine grab.

It could also be useful for feeding bale silage with.

I would say a bucket grab will be way more useful ! Handle bales with it also ! Even cut the plastic and net with a blade on the bucket

yellow50HX

How much cleaning out do you do?

Neighbour here has a rear mounted 6ft shear grab on the tractor, uses it for feeding the silage and also cleaning out the sheds, can take a much bigger load then a front loader

davidk1394

Dung for is grand for heavy stuff. For any of the finer dung we use the shear grab takes more and looses less

CloughCasey1

davidk1394 wrote: »

Dung for is grand for heavy stuff. For any of the finer dung we use the shear grab takes more and looses less

Use dung fork here for cleaning sheds and loading up out of dung sted. if too wet in dungsted then just hire a 4tonne on rubber tracks.