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DickL

02-02-2008 11:50:46




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What would be a cheap machine to grind hay bales so I can spread them on back on the field with a manure spreader? The key word is cheap.




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MF Poor

02-02-2008 23:15:02




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 Re: What Would Be A Cheap in reply to DickL, 02-02-2008 11:50:46  
Some of the better rental places will have a straw blower (used to straw mulch freshly seeded grass/dirt for landscapers) Fed a little slower than what you'd do with straw, they'll grind up hay and spread it all at the same time. BTDT. I used a Finn spreader that was mounted on its own trailer. Mulched about 5 acres of newly seeded ditch line after grading. I used 2 year old grass hay that had started to mold.

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johns48jdb

02-03-2008 05:41:12




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 Re: What Would Be A Cheap in reply to MF Poor, 02-02-2008 23:15:02  
hey poor, i wanted to share with you and some others on the risk of handling molded grass of any kind. there is a lung disease that is called pulmonary fibrosis. there is no cure for it and they don't know what causes it but they supect molded hay, wood chips, some chemicals etc. even women who have lived in cities get it and they really don't know how its contracted. the only cure for it is a full lung transplant. there is no meds for it. some people die with it within 30 days of finding out they have it. if you get a presistant cough that antiboitics want cure you need to go to a lung specialits right away. the average life span is 3 to 5 years. if you supect you have it your family doc can listen to your lungs and see if he can here a rubbing sound coming from them. only 40,00 people a year get this in the usa and most doctors don't know what the signs are. if your going to handle anything dusty, molded or chemicals of any sort on the farm or yard, wear a real good mask. even mowing your yard can be dangerous to you or anybody close enough to breath the dust from it. the alternative to not wearing a mask is slowly sufficating to death. sometimes being careful isn't enough. just be safe guys.

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msb

02-02-2008 18:28:14




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 Re: What Would Be A Cheap in reply to DickL, 02-02-2008 11:50:46  
Combine straw chopper. Feed them through the door above the straw walkers a flake at a time.



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DickL

02-02-2008 17:05:39




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 Thanks in reply to DickL, 02-02-2008 11:50:46  
I am thinking about all the ideas. My one son inlaw and his brother has a tree trimming business and have one of those units they feed the limbs in that blows them into a covered dump truck. I just thought of it and it might be the easiest way out. The ensilage cutter made me think of it.



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Don-Wi

02-02-2008 23:07:24




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 Re: Thanks in reply to DickL, 02-02-2008 17:05:39  
If they'll let ya use it, I'm thinking that'd fer sure be the easiest way for a guy who may not have a big enough tractor to power some of those other options.

Just pay for fuel and a little extra for his time, cut the strings off and let it fly....

Donovan from Wisconsin



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Charlie M

02-02-2008 15:45:14




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 Re: What Would Be A Cheap in reply to DickL, 02-02-2008 11:50:46  
I've got one of the old Papec enslidge cutters that I used for grinding up old hay - works great and it gives me a reason to set it up to use it.



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cadet trooper

02-02-2008 15:11:40




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 Re: What Would Be A Cheap in reply to DickL, 02-02-2008 11:50:46  
A new idea flail spreader would be nice I'm not sure if you can find any reasonably priced a lot of landscapers use them.



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johns48jdb

02-02-2008 14:48:32




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 Re: What Would Be A Cheap in reply to DickL, 02-02-2008 11:50:46  
pile the hay up in a remote place, old fence row or tree line. go to a local horse barn and they will give you all the manure you can haul off. my local barn even provides the front end loader. i haul it home and dump it off my dump truck near the hay. i use a front end loader to pile the manure on top of the bales and if you can find something to cover it with it works off quicker. never could keep black plastic on it. in about two years you'll have some of the best stuff in the world to put on your gardens and wifes flower beds or where ever you need to build the land up at. mu local barn keeps lime on it to keep the smell down. better than tearing up a lawn mower or bush hog. i use the loader to turn it over about every three months.

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Don-Wi

02-02-2008 12:32:36




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 Re: What Would Be A Cheap in reply to DickL, 02-02-2008 11:50:46  
If we ever have bales we need to put in the spreader, we just throw the whole thing in. The spreader *ussually* tears the flakes apart good enough for what we're spreading on, but where are you gonna spread it? Back on the hay field?

Maybe rent a tub grinder that farmers use to chop up big round bales or whatever else. (some companies use them to make mulch out of pallets)

Donovan from Wisconsin

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DickL

02-02-2008 12:38:17




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 Re: What Would Be A Cheap in reply to Don-Wi, 02-02-2008 12:32:36  
Back on the hay field. I put three bales thru the spreader last year at the edge of the field and couldnt rake the hay. I used the lawn mower to mulch it all down. It was just a coupla swaths. This is about 180 bales. Might be a bit much for the lawn mower. (:^D



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old

02-02-2008 12:04:34




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 Re: What Would Be A Cheap in reply to DickL, 02-02-2008 11:50:46  
Big rounds or small squares?? If its the squares a hammer mill would do it. I use a small hammer mill to do that for my garden, helps slow down the weeds between rows



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DickL

02-02-2008 12:07:36




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 Re: What Would Be A Cheap in reply to old, 02-02-2008 12:04:34  
Small squares and an old hammer mill sounds like probly the cheapest way.



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old

02-02-2008 12:11:37




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 Re: What Would Be A Cheap in reply to DickL, 02-02-2008 12:07:36  
Yep if you watch around you can find them at auctions for less then $100. Big problem is having the right screen for them. I would use my big hammer mill but I don't have a screen that has big enough holes to work well. You need a screen that has holes about as big as your thumb, smaller then that and you get dust

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DickL

02-02-2008 12:32:29




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 Re: What Would Be A Cheap in reply to old, 02-02-2008 12:11:37  
Back in the late 50's and early 60's we ground 3 cutting alfalfa into our hog feed. We took it to town to a feed mill. They removed the screen to grind our hay for feed. That was dry hay. I have seen belt drive hammer mills sell at farm auctons for 20 bucks. Probly not many around any more.



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jonjon

02-02-2008 12:01:05




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 Re: What Would Be A Cheap in reply to DickL, 02-02-2008 11:50:46  
Dont know about cheap give about 12,500 for our tarrup grinder when it was new. May unroll it run over it with a lawnmower.



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