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Round Bale unroller
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Lady Haywire wrote: »^ Would you not be better off putting in 3 bales at a time when you're forking out? We normally put in 2x a time & throw out to three pens but if weather is forecast bad we stick in 3 so we don't have to be mooching about for bales in the rain.
Dragging off one bale is just hardship!
would be, I just have to convince a certain individual
the old school lads seem to love hardship, lol 0 -
funkey_monkey wrote: »Would he even meet you half way and put in two bales as a starting point - one between 1st & 2nd bay and the other between the 3rd and 4th bay, about 1ft out to stop them pulling it into the slats?
With cattle like that - the silage wouldn't get much of a chance to spoil.
A splitter would be no use to you unless you can get in perpendicular to the feed gates as it splits the bale like an open book.
My thoughts on the rotospike is that although it will loosen the bale up for you it would seem like you have little control over the distribution of the silage. Dry bales and wet bales will unroll differently and more than likely wet bales would fall off before you want them to.
However, a concern I have with the unroller is that you are driving along the feedgate watching the unrolling. Hungry cattle are sticking their head out to try and get fed - strong possibility that are some stage a head will get caught in the gate by the tractor wheel. I've seen it happen here - you can't have eyes looking everywhere.
So, for the rotospike you need to vary your forward speed based on the unravelling of the bale - if you unravel far enough out that you won't catch a head, you'll still be graiping the full bale for the 4 bays.
For the unroller - I'd want one with an extension chute so you can stay away from the heads and concentrate on the feeding.
It would seem that an roller is around 4.5k - 5k and a rotospike is approx 1k.
TBH - I would try putting in a couple of bales first and see how that goes. If you had a spike I would tell you to set the bale down and then lift it half way up to separate it and that would make what bit of graiping you have to do easier. The cattle eating at it too should help prevent it get awkward to shift.
Who puts in the bales - you or your father? If it is him (as he seems to be doing the graiping) would he be fit to work an unroller?
Will try and get him to meet halfway, but sounds like way too much common sense
how do you mean "With cattle like that"
yeah, cant really get in perpendicular.
I know what you mean with the unroller, very easy to catch an animals hed etc
Father puts the bales in. I think the unroller is a non runner at this stage, he will see the cost as way too dear.
think best option is to get him to put more bales out
what do you mean by this:
"TBH - I would try putting in a couple of bales first and see how that goes. If you had a spike I would tell you to set the bale down and then lift it half way up to separate it and that would make what bit of graiping you have to do easier. The cattle eating at it too should help prevent it get awkward to shift."0 -
would be, I just have to convince a certain individual
the old school lads seem to love hardship, lol
If I can convince my father, you can do it too!!
You just have to make him think it's his idea....:p
"Dad I was thinking of getting one of those bale unrollers but they're fierce expensive, it'd be much cheaper to put in 2bales (or three) at once. Then we'd only be using the tractor once a week to put in the bales & we could have more time to fix fencing/look at neighbours stock/watch TV (delete as appropriate) "
We'd been putting in bales similar to your set up for 20 years or so, only got a front loader last summer on the new (to us) tractor. Working in a very narrow passage & door too. As mentioned above, I'd be terrified of catching a head in the barrier, still am when reversing out of the shed after dropping bales in & that's when I can fully concentrate on the cattle, not looking behind me as well!0 -
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Lady Haywire wrote: »If I can convince my father, you can do it too!!
You just have to make him think it's his idea....:p
"Dad I was thinking of getting one of those bale unrollers but they're fierce expensive, it'd be much cheaper to put in 2bales (or three) at once. Then we'd only be using the tractor once a week to put in the bales & we could have more time to fix fencing/look at neighbours stock/watch TV (delete as appropriate) "
We'd been putting in bales similar to your set up for 20 years or so, only got a front loader last summer on the new (to us) tractor. Working in a very narrow passage & door too. As mentioned above, I'd be terrified of catching a head in the barrier, still am when reversing out of the shed after dropping bales in & that's when I can fully concentrate on the cattle, not looking behind me as well!
this made me laugh
but may work .0 -
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