Side shooter

[Lowly]

Does anyone know if a side shooter bucket can handle chopped hay/straw? I use my mixer to chop round bales into bedding, then bucket it up, dump it in the pens and spread it by hand (well, by fork). Lot of work and too slow. My barn is laid out for a skid steer to travel around, no room for a full grown, trailer type round bale chopper. Something like a Teagle Tomahawk would work but I don't have a tractor small enough to get around in the barn, so would have to look at buying another tractor. Does the Tomahawk take too much power to run off a hydraulic motor powered by the skid steer?

The chopped hay from the mixer is much shaggier than what you get from a forage harvester. It will only go through my feed cart if it is mixed about 50% with corn silage.

The only skid steer mounted round bale processor I can find appears to pretty much just tear the bale apart without chopping the material much at all.

Thanks for any thoughts or experiences.

Lowly

 

[Wisconsin Cowman]

From what I am reading one of these would work well for you. I work for a dealer that sells them and people are happy with them. Looks like you have round bales so it wouldn’t work, but it’s something to look into. There is some YouTube videos on them to in action.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UsWF8a0yXdM
Tubeline

 

[Lowly]

Yup, that is just what I need, only set up for round bales rather than big squares.

 

[JDseller]

The side shooter buckets that just have the belt in the bottom must have real fine chopped stuff to work. I have two different guys that use them close by. They both have the bedding tub ground. So it is fine. The bedding you process in your feeder wagon would be too coarse for the belt type.

 

[Lowly]

Thanks, it sounds like figuring out a way to get around the barn with a 3 pt hitch type bale processor is a better idea than a side shooter.