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Hey folks,
I need some creative ideas. Sawdust is getting harder to come by for bedding. Have and can get plenty of small straw bales and can bale my own for free this season. Real PITA to use in normal length. There is a bale shredder available but much more than I want to put out. ven crossed my mind to bust open a bale in the stall and zoom thru with the brush cutter but don't want to end up in the looney bin if someone sees me. Maybe modify a garden chipper? if so, what would I need to do?

I'm wide open to suggestions.


Dave
 
The cheap one is a fork. I don't know how much you have to do but we just shook it out with a fork. I don't think I'd like to do that for 50 head though.
 
DAVE....there are small bale chopper/blowers that landscapers use when sowing grass seed on yards. Mine is a GOOSEN Bale chopper and will chop/blow about 50 bales of straw per hour. My Goosen has a 6" hose for outlet and I also have a directional spout (kinda/sorta like on a silage cutter)...small Honda engine. You might keep your eyes open for something along that line.

I have also seen the same machine that was PTO powered as well.

There may be other brands on the market.

Good luck....Rick
 
Well just do like we use to in loafing barns. Use a pto spreader put bales in it cut strings back it in and turn her on you can even set the web to sweep, works great just keep the strings out of it or they'll wind up in the beaters.
 
Hay Dave;
I'm going to lay my "people skills" on you. Why don't you just pull your Army issue Swiss Army survival tool out of your pocket and sever the twine or wire bindings that hold the bales together? Then reach down and pick up a slab, carry it over to a stall and shake it out evenly? No fosil fuel burned, no polution,no unwanted dust, and no money spent for equipment. You might even shed a few of the #s you gained over the holidays. Don't go running to the med. cabnet for a BP Pill, I'm just gesting with you. The Acg.
 
The farmer I was helping had that processing option on his JD round baler, think it was another set of knives or something, it did the shredding job when baled, only trouble was the net wrapped bale would come apart easily, had to be real careful with em when moving and stacking, so much he decided to let the customer do this, I was always curious if there was still a better way, wrap or something that would work better, sure is nice to cut open a bale already processed, though some of it looked chopped up so much you could not get a fork to hold it.
 
I just saw an advert selling horse manure with straw. good mulch. maybe you just throw some straw in and sell it to the garden nuts when the stall is cleaned.
 
We just backed the chopper up to the barn to blow into the straw mow, cut the strings and fed the bales into the chopper by hand.
 
BTW I forgot you're in a small area a New Idea flail spreder works best and doesn't seem to toss it so far and just lays down a blanket with less dust.
 
(quoted from post at 16:21:19 01/09/11) BTW I forgot you're in a small area a New Idea flail spreder works best and doesn't seem to toss it so far and just lays down a blanket with less dust.
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Thanks for the ideas, but you folks are talking bigger than I am. Just want to chop the straw in smaller pieces. Not trying to get out of scattering a bale. The chopped stuff absorbs more and composts quicker than the long cut. Found a couple bale choppers on ebay if they don't get carried away with the price and a normal brush chopper with a decent throat for cheap in the worst case..

Dave
 
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