Tub grinding round bales

[paul8246]

it is very useful to feeding the mixer with other product b4 feeding cow?

[jj102895]

By grinding the hay bales into smaller pieces it allows the cattle to absorb the nutrients of the hay better which makes an increase in weight gain or milk production depending on what cows you are feeding it to.

[elmergamez]

thank you to shared us your experience feeding during winter season at that cost 500.00 nice!

[619butternuts619]

WHY???????????????????



[kuchlasagla17]

Whats the reason to grind this bales ? or what do you du with the grinded bales ?

[atvking04032]

@kuchlasagla17 maby they needed to make square balls instead or some one wanted square balls and they had none just a gess but idk

[kuchlasagla17]

@atvking04032 ah okey Thx!

[xam107]

isnt this a crusher for rocks normaly?

[Vaneps0]

@xam107 No.

[TheShanbar]

maybe i've missed something ........ but what do you do with it after grinding ? surely you don't leave it in the field ????

Thanks

[MrYourmomswallows]

@TheShanbar its usually done in the yard or where the cattle are fed, it can be put into a TMR wagon with straw, silage ,grain and or minerals and supplements, or it can be bucketed by tractor into feeders, but the cheapest and greatest advantage is to let the cows feed themselves using a "hotwire", or electric fence. almost 0 input there, cows feed themselves!

[johnsenkenn]

@jdeere8650

Don't you untie the string before you bust the bales, or you let the cow eat it ?

[jdeere8650]

@johnsenkenn

We use bio-degradable string (twine) for these bales. The chopper shreds it up fine as dust. and as it goes through the animal- it breaks down.

[johndeer7030]

@jdeere8650 Wow. Never heard of that before. Clever stuff. Does it cost more than normal bailer twine ?

[jdeere8650]

@johndeer7030

Yeah is costs a bit more. But the time savings not having to remove them pays that back

[johndeer7030]

@jdeere8650 It would be interesting to know what happens to the twine when it gets grided. I take it it doesnt get tangled up. Does it chop into fine particals or down to the consistancy of the bales ?

[jdeere8650]

@johndeer7030 Right, it doesn't get tangled up. It basicly gets pulverized into dust, there's absolutly no trace of it after.

[johndeer7030]

@jdeere8650 Hmm

Very handy indeed

Think ill be looking into this.

Cheers

[Alexela56]

Why you destroy your balls?

[dieseldanny09]

sinn?

[johndeer7030]

@jdeere8650 nearly 59 thousand now :)

[Horsemenx]

Nice machine!!!!!

[jdeere8650]

Agreed! It will bust up the oldest, toughest bale in no time. with a CAT 500hp engine ;)

[R624Vsacan]

this is good machine :*>

[jdeere8650]

jimuck96:

Why what?

[jimuck96]

WHY?

[jdeere8650]

BFDdriver:

This would be a great way to do what you just explained.

We usually grind up about 200 bales and it takes maybe 2 hours, We are charged roughly $500, so $2.50 per bale.

[jdeere8650]

77farm:

Well its not wet, but yes- its cold.

This was about late October, early November, the ground was just starting to freeze, which made pulling the heavy tubgrinder across it a breeze .

[BFDdriver]

how much does one of those things rent for. I've got 100old bales I need to dispos of and that would make it asy to compost them and spread the resulting fertilizer back on my hayfield

[77farm]

how do you manage to go on the field when is wet and cold????

[jdeere8650]

Noticed Studios:

Yes that is another great way to feed it, mix it with some grain and/or silage.

But we just let them self feed on it, saves us many many hours of feeding.

[jdeere8650]

vintsch & and andybladeater:

To make a simple feeding system for those cold winter days, so you don't have to start your tractor to feed stock.

We setup self feeder panels all around the pile, and they eat as they please & and waste less vs feeding whole round bales in feeders.

Since this pile is located in a grain field, the manure from feeding will help next years crop, and we won't have to haul it out, another cost saving.

Overall, an economical way to feed hay over winter.

[jdeere8650]

We do not have a forage harvester, nor do we have a pit, nor do we have the trucks to haul the material from the field to a pit, To get all that custom done, would be an outragous cost just for hay feed.

Doing it this way- we make all our own bales, just hire out the tubgrinder, load the bales into it ourself. we then have a good amount of palatable feed to feed during winter ;)

[vintsch]

like andybladeater already asked: what's the meaning of this work?

[NoticedStudios]

you tub gring it- then put it in a feed wagon for livestock. then the food is spead evenly and some dont get under/over fed.

[andybladeater]

What is the meaning of this work? thx

[conaill505]

why dont you just put it in a pit through a forage harvester?

[cormus1]

this way is alot less labour intensive,,,,u can do this when you don't have crop to take off, and the bales are all in the yard. 2 man operation as opposed to 5 or 6 man

[jdeere8650]

yes, just one man show on the grinder, goes all over doing this all year round, We had to load the bales, so two people in total. It took about 3 & 1/2 hours to make the two piles

[ACFarmer89]

They did this for you? And how long did it take?