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mini turf hopper

  • 02-06-2013 03:21PM
    #1
    jocotty
    Closed Accounts Posts: 338 ✭✭


    Hi,

    do anyone know if a person can get a small turf hopper, for own personal use. that you could pull with a MF 165 or something, and load with a mini digger?

    or , has anyone invented a bucket for a mini digger, that can be used for cutting turf, like a smaller version of this one:

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J13ONysGW9I


    i have some bog , but big hoppers wont go in without charging a fortune , as im the only one using the bog, so it doesnt pay them to get all the gear in.

    just a thought?

    Jo
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  • #2
    quadboy
    Closed Accounts Posts: 472 ✭✭quadboy


    Bogs around here are cut with an excavator with a bucket attachment not a hopper, he takes a bite outa the side of the bog then squeezes it to shape the sods


  • #3
    mickdw
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 23,855 ✭✭✭✭mickdw


    There are smaller hoppers that are tractor operated but id say they would need a reasonable size tractor. Guy here has one just for own use so they are not a mad expensive setup. He fills with a 6 tonne machine.


  • #4
    Muckit
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,173 ✭✭✭✭Muckit


    How would you get the depth with a mini digger? You'd never bring up black turf!


  • #5
    moy83
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,701 ✭✭✭moy83


    Would you get a lad in with a slean bucket ?
    A new lad started up around here with a hopper last year and he will go anywhere for a few hoppers at no extra charge (so far )


  • #6
    Jonblack
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 119 ✭✭Jonblack


    http://www.jacksonengineers.com


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  • #7
    jocotty
    Closed Accounts Posts: 338 ✭✭jocotty


    quadboy wrote: »
    Bogs around here are cut with an excavator with a bucket attachment not a hopper, he takes a bite outa the side of the bog then squeezes it to shape the sods


    where's "here" ?

    ya, thats what im looking for. wonder would i be able to get one for a 3 ton mini digger?

    only for my own personal use, so doesnt have to be anything special


  • #8
    jocotty
    Closed Accounts Posts: 338 ✭✭jocotty


    moy83 wrote: »
    Would you get a lad in with a slean bucket ?
    A new lad started up around here with a hopper last year and he will go anywhere for a few hoppers at no extra charge (so far )


    where wud i buy a slean bucket?

    i take it thats just a bucked that u press into the turf, take it up , and then shake it out of the bucket?


  • #9
    moy83
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,701 ✭✭✭moy83


    jocotty wrote: »
    where wud i buy a slean bucket?

    i take it thats just a bucked that u press into the turf, take it up , and then shake it out of the bucket?

    Check donedeal for one , but as muckit said there wouldnt be a great reach on a mini digger so there would be a fair bit of tracking to and fro to get much turf spread


  • #10
    jocotty
    Closed Accounts Posts: 338 ✭✭jocotty


    moy83 wrote: »
    Check donedeal for one , but as muckit said there wouldnt be a great reach on a mini digger so there would be a fair bit of tracking to and fro to get much turf spread


    ya, well years ago we used to cut it with a sleán by hand, so surely it would be easier and better than that !:o

    tried donedeal, but didnt come up with anything


  • #11
    moy83
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,701 ✭✭✭moy83


    jocotty wrote: »
    ya, well years ago we used to cut it with a sleán by hand, so surely it would be easier and better than that !:o

    tried donedeal, but didnt come up with anything

    A local welder would put one together easy enough if he had the idea of one in his head either .
    There is a reason it was done years ago by hand - they had nothing else . I would as soon eat the slean as use it now .


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  • #12
    jocotty
    Closed Accounts Posts: 338 ✭✭jocotty


    moy83 wrote: »
    A local welder would put one together easy enough if he had the idea of one in his head either .
    There is a reason it was done years ago by hand - they had nothing else . I would as soon eat the slean as use it now .


    yap - - - my brothers and i wasted years in the bog with the sleán, not to talk of my father, and grandfather!


  • #13
    moy83
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,701 ✭✭✭moy83


    I cant link the ad but there are a few up there alright under "turf buckets" . There is a lad in donegal making them to any size , he would be worth talking to


  • #14
    quadboy
    Closed Accounts Posts: 472 ✭✭quadboy


    jocotty wrote: »
    where's "here" ?

    ya, thats what im looking for. wonder would i be able to get one for a 3 ton mini digger?

    only for my own personal use, so doesnt have to be anything special

    West kerry


  • #15
    moy83
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,701 ✭✭✭moy83


    jocotty wrote: »
    yap - - - my brothers and i wasted years in the bog with the sleán, not to talk of my father, and grandfather!

    A lad that works for me cuts a trailer every year with the slean :eek: I should be getting a grant to let someone that mad into work at all :D


  • #16
    jocotty
    Closed Accounts Posts: 338 ✭✭jocotty


    moy83 wrote: »
    I cant link the ad but there are a few up there alright under "turf buckets" . There is a lad in donegal making them to any size , he would be worth talking to



    Sound, thanks. That guy is the way to go I would think.

    I'll call him tomorrow.


  • #17
    jocotty
    Closed Accounts Posts: 338 ✭✭jocotty


    quadboy wrote: »
    West kerry

    Are they using just turf buckets, that you push into the ground , or is it something like the one on the link I put in the post?

    Ideally I'd like to get one like the one in the link.


  • #18
    Redmac
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3 ✭Redmac


    Got a lad to cut turf with a hopper like Jacksons this year. Charged €13 a hopper. After moving all the gear hard to see it paying for him. Think he was using a 12ton machine.


  • #19
    Redmac
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3 ✭Redmac


    Got a lad to cut turf with a hopper like Jacksons this year. Charged €13 a hopper. After moving all the gear hard to see it paying for him. Think he was using a 12ton machine and 90hp tractor.


  • #20
    quadboy
    Closed Accounts Posts: 472 ✭✭quadboy


    jocotty wrote: »
    Are they using just turf buckets, that you push into the ground , or is it something like the one on the link I put in the post?

    Ideally I'd like to get one like the one in the link.

    Yeah just a turf bucket nothing like the one in the link, he doesnt go straight into the ground though you know he makes a trench and every year then just take a few buckets from the face of it, he splits it into sections of a few metres and every year he'll take a section and leave the one beside it till next year, every second section like


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