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go with the Jfc it holds more the more it holes the better. I got 950kg of nuts into the Jfc one but it had to get a good shaking on the forklift to fit that amount in. It was an emerald nut by Paul and Vincent. The nut it self seems heavy densly packed. I think it’s called super beef in Pattons name. Fed it ad-lib to bulls and the best of them done 1.8 a day so is a good feed

it’s easy just say , buy the cheapest but there’s a massive difference in what some are referencing here. Some of the cooked 18% calf rations I’ve seen up on 480 per ton and I’ve still used them over another 16% at 350 . I’m currently using a calf grower nut at 375 to keep them moving over the winter and I can get other meals at just over 300 but they just don’t work the same. It’s not always the case but it you get what you pay for comes to mind.

Yeah, I looked at the JFC and also the Kingspan bins and just thought the Tipsy would be the easier to get the last of the meal out of.

The other two have an awful lot of ridges at the bottom where as the Tipsy has that flat section when you tip it over for getting the last out.

I could be wrong though and would welcome opinions on that.

Yeah it's the JFC with the yellow lids that have too many ridges at the bottom

Neighbour uses two IBEC containers on his car trailer for to run to the co op for his meal on a Saturday to feed cattle, simple system. To get meal delivered is 30 euros a ton around here and 30 a ton extra for small bags, lads can talk about rations and price but it’s all about performance of the animal from ration and what suits very body system. Our system is ton meal bags.

Sami23 The JFC Tipsy bins are named appropriately, their main advantage afaics is they sit a bit taller and tip over easier than the slightly lower flatter jfc bins..and as you mentioned theres a bit less ridging in the bottom..I have both, they both work fine...I find the tipsy bins are easier to tip over when you get to the point you need to do thar....easier than the longer lower ones and they seem a bit sturdier to me ....that's about it, you will still be kneeling down to get the last bit out with a scoop imo.

There was a business that had a spring loaded platform for the inside, it gradually raised the meal up as you emptied and less mass of feed was on platform reducing need to bend down into bin .… I don't know how effective that was or if they are still in business.....but I always wondered just how much meal would escape at the sides and drop below then requiring you to remove and clean mechanism and still have to tip bin over to get what escaped...

Think I'd go for the tipsy...it seems sturdier but tbh the others have never given me bother.....

I cracked a lid in a storm, lid blew off as I was opening, struck bit where clasp fits...that's it.

The other things to consider are price...I'm not sure if there's a differential but it better be small or else I'd go for cheaper option

and the flatter ones have a screw cap at bottom and they made great water containers in the drought period we had during a summer years ago...you can screw on an outlet and tap, add a hose, stick them above a drinker and there's a couple of days water there for a group of calves etc.....if the tipsy don't have that Id be tempted with the flatter ones (I'm not near ours now, but I suspect the tipsy do have that)

It's not that you couldn't do similar with a much cheaper IBC but.....the jfc bins are set up to be picked up easily with a bale hander with rollers....very handy to fill one on the loader, drive out with it filled with water and deposit.…

There might be an opportunity for a business to make a frame for an IBC that makes it easy to pick up with a loader with rollers...I just use the pallet forks but really appreciate not having to change implements nowadays 😀

it’s the same price. I do collect it sometimes when the bins are up the fields or I have free time over the winter. He moves a lot of meal in fairness to him I ordered some the other day for this week and he said he wasn’t going my way the next day and he dropped it off so very handy.

not necessarily…..if it means getting your business it can be worth taking the hit on delivery.

that’s it and that lorry is busy 5 out of 6days a week. They wouldn’t move that amount without having that approach. It’s a very handy service, I wouldn’t even price meal, fert anywhere else means a lot to get it into the yard as I don’t have the time to pick it up. Even land drainage pipes get all that delivered.

100% I've done it but that's correct ....sooner or later you'll damage the bin I'd say.

I thought weanlings were back again last week. There is value out there if you wait around. I can’t see the sense in how someone is happy to pay €1000+ on Autumn dairy calves yet plenty nice weanlings can be picked up for 1100-1300 euro. You would say the work is practically done for you.