Jay Dee
Well-Known Member
No respiratory trouble here so far, starting the 4th winter with the same cattle...I bed over them, some walk away, some follow the chopper for a scratch.Those that have them, any respiratory problems with dust and any issues with flying stones?
Have an airy house, & the combine has chaff spreaders fitted which leaves the straw swath a lot cleaner....
was told of a local farmer who got rid of his chopper because it was too dusty.
Stones....get the odd one....was worse the first year, if you are baling your own straw you can run the pickup a little higher which makes a lot of difference,
tho some men cut it that low you have to go down for it...plus if there is a stone you get a bit of warning & can get the flap up or down so as not to hit them....
first year I lost a few blades which would worry me more , chopped silage that year but never found any in the passage.
It could be fun with bought in straw...brother in law was at a place where the sheds were done with fibre cement sheets....
he asked the fella why all the holes down 1 side?, oh that's just the stones from the straw chopper .
I don't fancy the idea of getting into a pen with a bull to roll out bales ....have felt the draught of a hoof going past at eye level a couple of times while hand bedding the calves, & they are only messing :001_unsure:.