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Meal Bin

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  • #62
    mr.stonewall
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    memorystick wrote: »
    I think I need a meal bin. Feeding about 30 ton of meal per year. Opened the shed this morning and about 3000 crows took off. How much for a 12-15 ton bin and can I put ration into it? Or should I turn a blind eye to the crows and keep me money?

    No brainer with that amount of feed. Lifetime job. Price a spilt bin or the option of 2 bins,


  • #63
    Cavanjack
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    memorystick wrote: »
    I think I need a meal bin. Feeding about 30 ton of meal per year. Opened the shed this morning and about 3000 crows took off. How much for a 12-15 ton bin and can I put ration into it? Or should I turn a blind eye to the crows and keep me money?

    Get a tams grant on one. 60% if you are under 40.
    A 16tonne will cost from €3500 up plus vat. No problem with a ration as long as there is not too much molasses in it. Feed a ration here and no issue with it.
    You’ll wonder why you didn’t get one years ago.


  • #64
    Bass Reeves
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    An 10-12 ton will be big enough. You be able to put in 8 ton of ration per delivery. Bin are rated by capacity to hold nuts usually. Rations are a bit bulkier

    Buy a lock for it as well. Not to stop thieves ( a luck only stops an honest man) but I have seen cases where cattle get into a yard and fiddle with a bin and open it leaving a few ton of ration on the ground and an animal or two with acidosis or bloat.

    Slava Ukrainii



  • #65
    rliston
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    Anyone here ever moved a 5t meal bin? Need to relocate one in a few weeks to the other end of the farmyard and around a shed. I have a tractor (140hp) with front loader, was thinking of ratchet straps/chain around bin and onto headstock of loader.



  • #66
    Bass Reeves
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    https://boards.ie/discussion/comment/117616796#Comment_117616796

    Have not done it but a 5 ton should be easy enough to move. A dolly( set if wheels on a chassis) or a bale trailer should male it fairy easy . ratchet straps are grand but a bit that is 14-18' long can be hard to balance and maneuver. Easier to place it on a trailer and move it into position to where it is being relocated to

    Slava Ukrainii



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  • #67
    Westernrock
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    https://boards.ie/discussion/comment/117616796#Comment_117616796

    Just be very sure it’s well secured before you lift it and that there is no one on the ground to get hurt. We had a neighbour killed moving a bin a few years back where the bin was swinging on the loading shovel, his adult son was driving the shovel and he went to stop it swaying or something and it hit him on the head. Was probably a 10 or 12 ton though but still. Any time we moved bins there was a special lorry we got (probably the same as how they deliver them?) tips up along the side of the bin and a few straps go around the bin then it tips down onto the bed of the lorry and then you tip it up again where you want it. Hard to beat the tools for the job!



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