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cutting round bales with chainsaw

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Bill in Colo

01-17-2008 13:00:39




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Anyone have any experience doing this? I have seen a chain advertised for this purpose, does it work? I'm wintering my replacement heifers at home this year for the first 12 years. Pitching hay into a feed bunk is hard work for a 65 year old




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Bill in Colo

01-18-2008 17:08:31




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 Re: cutting round bales with chainsaw in reply to Bill in Colo, 01-17-2008 13:00:39  
thanks for the replies guys,will try some soon and let you know the results.



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pa dave

01-17-2008 17:19:47




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 Re: cutting round bales with chainsaw in reply to Bill in Colo, 01-17-2008 13:00:39  
we have done this for years, we turn the chain around, backwards, works great



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Southern Ray

01-18-2008 07:19:23




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 Re: cutting round bales with chainsaw in reply to pa dave, 01-17-2008 17:19:47  
Wish I could have known this a few years ago. wanted to bust up some junk hay to till into my garden. had to finally resort to the pitch fork.



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Maark

01-17-2008 16:55:04




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 Re: cutting round bales with chainsaw in reply to Bill in Colo, 01-17-2008 13:00:39  
You need to be sure to blow the hay out of the cooling fins when done.



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Bill in IL

01-17-2008 13:45:17




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 Re: cutting round bales with chainsaw in reply to Bill in Colo, 01-17-2008 13:00:39  
I do remember it throwing the chain off the bar every so often as well.



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Bill in IL

01-17-2008 13:22:06




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 Re: cutting round bales with chainsaw in reply to Bill in Colo, 01-17-2008 13:00:39  
I have done seen it done before with an electric chainsaw. Lifted the bales over the green feed rack with the bale on a bale prick sawed down to the bale prick and peeled the layers off as you go down through. Worked satisfactorily but I think we took the guard off the side to help the chain clear itself. We used a standard wood chain that came with the saw.



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Rob in Indiana

01-17-2008 13:19:31




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 Re: cutting round bales with chainsaw in reply to Bill in Colo, 01-17-2008 13:00:39  
we have done it for years with a regular chain saw but your bales better be tight.



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steveormary

01-17-2008 17:25:24




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 Re: cutting round bales with chainsaw in reply to Rob in Indiana, 01-17-2008 13:19:31  
Just be carefull. Dont set the bale on fire with the with the chainsaw exhaust.

steveormary



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randallinMo

01-18-2008 09:42:22




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 Re: cutting round bales with chainsaw in reply to steveormary, 01-17-2008 17:25:24  
I used to use mine to cut bales with. It worked, but with mixed results. I'd file an old chain down to almost nothing...it seemed to work better that way. The chain saw shop where I have mine worked on told me (the last time I took it in) to not ever bring it back to them if I intended on cutting more bales with it. They said it was a plugged up mess! I did use vegetable oil in the oiler for lube.

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tx68

01-19-2008 14:30:22




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 Re: cutting round bales with chainsaw in reply to randallinMo, 01-18-2008 09:42:22  
Tried all the ideas for splitting a round bale up
between different feed racks using silage bales and
regular hay bales. They all seemed to take too long
and were allot of work. I ended up with a round bale
attachment for the front end loader that spins the bales on the fork hydraulically. Raise the bale above
the rack cut, cut the strings and hop back on the tractor and start rotating the bale until the right
amount is in the rack. Then do the same with the rest of the racks. It would spin fast enough that a
frozen silage bale would come apart by itself also.
The spear is bigger around that a regular spear and has flighting on it so you drill it into the bale when you pick it up. This gives it a grip on the bale so it will turn even if you did not get it in the center. There is also a back plate on it
with some spikes sticking out towards the bale to help make sure it turns. It sure saved allot of time and work and was also useful for bedding the cows with round straw bales, much better than unrolling them in the loafing barns. After the cattle left it was handy for rolling up the old barb wire fences.

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