Bale Shredder For Smaller Tractors

Bale Shredder For Smaller Tractors BALE HANDLING Bale Handling 31B Building a round bale shredder for smaller tractors that can handle tough frozen bales isn t easy If you also want it to create a minimal amount of dust feed out evenly and be quiet the challenge is even tougher     Just ask Paul Fox owner of Double R Manufacturing He says company engineers tore the new BeddingPro bale shredder apart 8 times before getting it right      Now it does everything we want it to do and more Fox says     And customers are noticing Livestock farmers are using it for both feed and bedding while berry farmers use it to lay down mulch      There are about 18 small square bales in one 5 1/2 ft round bale Those 18 square bales will normally cover approximately 500 ft Fox says The BeddingPro fluffs and spreads so well that one round bale will cover approximately 1 500 sq ft thereby saving 36 square bales of straw     With so many capabilities the machine interests many types of farmers Cattle farmers are finding that they re using a third less straw and extending their bedding intervals because of increased absorption rates Fox says     He says strawberry farmers like it because the machine can lay down whatever thickness of material they require It s a market we didn t foresee he says          The 6 sq ft machine weighs about 1 000 lbs and attaches to a 3-pt hitch or quick-taches to a front-end loader of tractors with at least 40 hp It can be powered by either hydraulics or pto Loading 4 to 5 1/2 ft bales is done with an optional self-loading attachment bale spear or by rolling a bale off a wagon onto the BeddingPro     Shredding rate is adjusted through the tractor s ground speed and the speed that the BeddingPro turns the bale to be shredded     The machine rotates the bale on top of a drum with knives on it that shreds the bale until there s nothing left Fox ways you can set the slice width from 6 to 18 in Unlike some bed-type shredders cylinders squeeze the bale so it does as good a job when the bale is small as when it is full size     Fox says that both the pto and hydraulic version sell for in the low teens Can     Contact: FARM SHOW Followup Double R Manufacturing Paul Fox R R #2 Crapaud Prince Edward Island C0A 1J0 Canada ph 902 658-2088; fax 902 855-2030; www doublermanufacturing com; paulfox@pei simpatico ca

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