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spreading mulch hay ??

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mike j

01-21-2005 10:33:48




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Need some ideas on what to use to shred and spread rotten mulch hay. These are small squares(yes idiot cubes) that have gotten damaged to the point of not being any good for anything but mulch. I'm in southern oregon so finding a shreader is fairly hard, reasonably anyway. I don't have a lot to do but would like to be able to make some use of this junk hay. thanks mike




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Harley in PA

01-28-2005 11:19:43




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 Re: spreading mulch hay ?? in reply to mike j, 01-21-2005 10:33:48  
I had to do the same last winter. Had about eighty bales of real old stuff, and chaff from years on the floor. Used a TPO driven spreader. You can put the bales in whole and just take off the wire or string, but it just comes out in laps. No matter what setup I used, it came out in laps. I didn't like that, so I broke every bale. I supose you could just spread em and then hit it with a rotary mower. I did that with my initial "experiments". Anyhoo, I took me about a week and a half. I worked for a fella in the spring, doing finish grading and putting in a lawn on new construction. We rented a shredder, and in an hour and a half we had spread forty five bales of straw. Nice and even too. One person drove the truck while the other fed the shredder. Check a local rental shop. Thats where we got it.

Hope this helps.
Harley

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thejdman01

01-22-2005 09:11:07




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 Re: spreading mulch hay ?? in reply to mike j, 01-21-2005 10:33:48  
i usually just throw them on the burn pile or mix them in w/the manure. i have seen some horsey people who have a ground driven manure spreader spread some bales and they put the whole bale there and were either goining so slow it just threw the leaft and didnt really spread it or they were going faster and wraped around the beater and made for a heck of a mess. if you have a pto driven spreader should be ok though as most of them little spreaders are wanna be's id just burn it or throw it in w/the manure maybe break apart a little depending on where your spreading it and what your doing w/the field next year

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Allan in NE

01-21-2005 13:57:13




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 Re: spreading mulch hay ?? in reply to mike j, 01-21-2005 10:33:48  
Hi Mike,

Don't know what your setup is, but one thing that'll tear the fire outta 'em & sling 'em out is a manure spreader.

Allan



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James in NC

01-21-2005 11:04:26




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 Re: spreading mulch hay ?? in reply to mike j, 01-21-2005 10:33:48  
What if you took the string off and hit it several times with a rotary mower. Start with the mower in the up postion and work down on the bale during several passes. Depending on the tractor and mower it might work.



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