Flail chopper and feeder wagon

Longmeadow farm · Jun 17, 2011

Does any one have experience with a 5.5 ft wide slant bar feeder wagon behind a flail chopper? I've been told by a number of people that filling a 5.5 ft wide feeder wagon is somewhat difficult and that an 8ft is the preferable way to go. However, the manufacturers suggest that with baffles in the 5.5 ft... it would be OK..Comments

K. Peters · Jun 17, 2011

My dad called it "green chopping" and was common practice on our farm for many years until we added another silo. I want to say we never had a feeder wagon more than six feet wide but I don't remember measuring one to see how wide it was.
Right now I'm using a homemade feeder wagon for the steers that normally gets filled from the silo but occasionly I do green chop into it and that is only five feet wide.

Sparktrician · Jun 18, 2011

We green chop into a SI feeder wagon. Just started doing this this year....(just got a chopper) The feeder wagon was made for round bales, no solid sides. We U-bolted plywood to the sides to chop into it. I would say the inside of the wagon (between sheets of plywood) is about 5' wide. The overall width is more. It helps to have two people on the tractor. Dad works the rope to control pitch on the chute, and I drive and adjust the chute left to right with the crank.

I plan to soon add electric actuators to the chute so I can control both left to right and pithch of chute by joystick control. That will make it nice!!!!!

We also have green chopped onto a haywagon, no sides of any kind......that takes skill to get a good sized load on!!!

Longmeadow farm · Jun 18, 2011

Thanks. How is the plywood fastened to the sides? What does it sit on to provide the "V"?

I put a hydraulic ram on my chute and control it that way... took some fabrication & welding but it works good.

Flail chopper and feeder wagon

Longmeadow farm

Member

K. Peters

Member

Sparktrician

Member

Longmeadow farm

Member

Similar threads