Moving meal with front loader

kun aguero

Feeding meal at the minute, from half tonne bags and its fairly time consuming.

Was wondering if anyone here had any handy homemade implements for the front loader?

Would need to be able to fill from a feed bin(chute) and then preferably have a chute underneath or on the side / bottom to fill into bags / buckets.

Cheers!

Mooooo

kun aguero wrote: »

Feeding meal at the minute, from half tonne bags and its fairly time consuming.

Was wondering if anyone here had any handy homemade implements for the front loader?

Would need to be able to fill from a feed bin(chute) and then preferably have a chute underneath or on the side / bottom to fill into bags / buckets.

Cheers!

If you can access all stock with the loader you could pick up an old beet chopper and put an extension on the outlet and the auger will push it out. Fed the cows here with it at the barrier for a while but would have been putting out a good bit of stuff.

mycro2013

I did a similar project for a lad before, your best bet and cheapest option is use an old fertilizer spreader hopper and frame. One set of quicke brackets. And a bit chute with stopper which can be bought from spirofeed.

Mcaree engineering in monaghan also do a tote bin that is an off the self option.

pedigree 6

Another possibility is the low jfc plastic meal bin with the yellow top instead of the bags. Vermin proof and weather proof and can leave them outside in the field beside the meal trough. Still have to bucket it out but it's easy to get at the meal. It'll hold 800kgs of pelleted meal.

Other than that it's an ordinary meal bin with a bagging chute and get it bulk blown in.

But I can't half recommend the jfc meal bin it's a revolution in farming. Just need a bale handler on the loader.

larthehar

Something like this?

https://www.donedeal.ie/feedingequipment-for-sale/kennedy-mobile-meal-bin/13807205

Collect at the coop and then bring around to each shed as you need it...

pedigree 6

larthehar wrote: »

Something like this?

https://www.donedeal.ie/feedingequipment-for-sale/kennedy-mobile-meal-bin/13807205

Collect at the coop and then bring around to each shed as you need it...

Just be careful on the bends or roundabouts or potholes on the way home from the co-op.

blue5000

larthehar wrote: »

Something like this?

https://www.donedeal.ie/feedingequipment-for-sale/kennedy-mobile-meal-bin/13807205

Collect at the coop and then bring around to each shed as you need it...

Love the low chute on it too, very handy for filling a bag:(

OP how much are you feeding/day? Would one of those JFC plastic wheel barrows be any good?

Mooooo

You can get a bin made up anyway you like with the chute, have two bins, 12 and 4 tonne, here where the chute comes out at an angle from under the bin, they are on long legs. Can park the bucket of loader under it or fill bags or whatever. Would have made it lower if filling bags from it only as opposed to having to hold the bag up to it. Got them from crowleys they didn't have them on their site till I asked them to make them.

kun aguero

Thanks for the input.

Feeding approx 550kg of barley at the minute each week.

Never had barley in a storage bin here was wondering also if it would get stuck- Due to being so lightweight? Anyone have this issue with barley or oats in a bin?

I was gearing more so towards the fertilizer spreader/euro brackets option or something similar bought in from a manufacturer.

We do have a jfc bin here which is mighty alright. We have the half tonne bags with the tied opening at the bottom, so just empty the bag into the jfc bin.
Has anyone had modified their jfc bin with any kind of a chute or opening at the bottom?

Oh and we dont really have proper access to feeding areas with the loader. In that i mean theres no room with silage in the way. We feed into troughs.
So if i can get close enough with the loader, then jus bucket the rest its great. So a chute on a jfc would be ideal I suppose. Just need inspiration!

Willfarman

A 5 foot loader bucket. A half a dozen meal bags. 2 or 3 buckets to a bag.. You'd move more meal than you'd be able to buy!

pedigree 6

kun aguero wrote: »

Thanks for the input.

Feeding approx 550kg of barley at the minute each week.

Never had barley in a storage bin here was wondering also if it would get stuck- Due to being so lightweight? Anyone have this issue with barley or oats in a bin?

I was gearing more so towards the fertilizer spreader/euro brackets option or something similar bought in from a manufacturer.

We do have a jfc bin here which is mighty alright. We have the half tonne bags with the tied opening at the bottom, so just empty the bag into the jfc bin.
Has anyone had modified their jfc bin with any kind of a chute or opening at the bottom?

Oh and we dont really have proper access to feeding areas with the loader. In that i mean theres no room with silage in the way. We feed into troughs.
So if i can get close enough with the loader, then jus bucket the rest its great. So a chute on a jfc would be ideal I suppose. Just need inspiration!

Get a 6 ton meal bin and get the barley blown into the bin. You can get 3 ton at a time if you want. Just have it big enough anyway and high enough that you can get the loader bucket in under the chute.
There's no issue with it sticking. Although I have the V Mac bin so not sure about the rest.

The fertiliser spreader idea sounds ok just get an old vicon spreader with the handle opening and closing the hopper.

Or you could just go around with the jfc bin on the front loader and bucket it out anyway.:D

pedigree 6

I'd say this is what you're thinking about.

https://www.donedeal.ie/feedingequipment-for-sale/meal-bins-portable/5208742

https://www.donedeal.ie/feedingequipment-for-sale/portable-meal-bin/13858178

https://www.donedeal.ie/feedingequipment-for-sale/mobile-meal-bins/14273251

https://www.donedeal.ie/feedingequipment-for-sale/meal-troughs/13069270

kun aguero

Food for thought. Thanks very much.

Id say first step will be getting it blown into the 6 tonne bin. Can pour straight into bags and carry in loader from there. (As mentioned ^^ thanks). Would really reduce the work load id say.

patsy_mccabe

What about something like this? Its a loader bucker with built in auger to discharge along the feed rail.

https://www.donedeal.ie/otherfarmmachinery-for-sale/feeder-bucket/13929238

Willfarman

patsy_mccabe wrote: »

What about something like this? Its a loader bucker with built in auger to discharge along the feed rail.

https://www.donedeal.ie/otherfarmmachinery-for-sale/feeder-bucket/13929238

A big meal bin and a meal dispenser would be a rolls Royce set up..

patsy_mccabe

Willfarman wrote: »

A big meal bin and a meal dispenser would be a rolls Royce set up..

A handy guy in the workshop would make up one handy enough. Just buy in the auger, curved part around auger and hydraulic motor.

Willfarman

patsy_mccabe wrote: »

A handy guy in the workshop would make up one handy enough. Just buy in the auger, curved part around auger and hydraulic motor.

The motor and the auger have to be done with sprockets and a chain.. There's a good bit of engineering in it for a simple enough concept.

Mf310

What about hanging the half tonne bags on a wall like the way some lads do with fertiliser bags ..have the bars coming out of the wall or an rsj and put the half tonne bag on it and then put one of them half tonne bag stoppers at the bottom so you just open it when you want to fill