The Castor has a full set of blades and can handle straw, hay or silage and has a chain driven rotor eliminating the need for a decent oil flow. The Raptor is a straw only, can be fitted with some blades if needed but is dependent on the tractors oil flow to drive the rotor.I don't know anything about , nor have I a straw blower.
The most popular blower I have seen would be Lucas Castor G. Would have known of 5 or 6 of them , but all would be the guts of 20 years old now . Some bought new some bought SH. One fed and bedded a large sheep flock for years , first behind a Zetor6340 , and latterly an MF 5455. Would be blowing 50 odd feet.
It has been replaced last winter or winter before by a new McHale . Which seem to have a fairly good reputation. The Lucas would have been late 90s.
Right after all the talking, I'm going to have to take the plunge on one of these finally!
From speaking to end users, my beloved little 3 cylinder Ford's are out :cry:from a power and oil flow perspective so it will have to be on the Landini for now until another tractor comes along at some stage.
Main requirements are:
Trailed
Blow into a 45 foot deep shed and over a barrier at that
Manual controls
Something reasonably simple.
I've looked online and some of these are quite big and You'd need an airport runway to turn them around in, I'd like something much smaller and compact, even if It's one bale at a time which would be perfect here. Something as manoverable as a 10x6 trailer would be ideal.
It's not going to do a huge amount of work here but It's definitely more labour and above all else safety point of view. So I don't need a Rolls Royce model and don't want to spend huge money on it either.
I know very little about the makes so want advice on any particular models to suit the above.
Thanks in advance.
Neighbour has some Italian make, cattle have to be out of the shed as if there is a stone in the bale he reckons it would kill an animalThe problem with trying to carefully feed straw into the rotor if underpowered is that you need a good volume of straw flowing to help blow it a good distance. When I doubled the oil flow on my tractor and could really let the straw into her I literally buried all the cattle at the back of the shed in straw.
I'd avoid using turned straw if at all possible for the blower as a stone could take the eye from a cow alright. Obviously this year and many others this isn't possible.Neighbour has some Italian make, cattle have to be out of the shed as if there is a stone in the bale he reckons it would kill an animal
I've a Jeulin Reco and it was bought fairly right as it's a lesser know brand. It was on the 3 point but I stuck an axle and hitch on it so the handy tractors could work it. 362 and the 168 have absolutely no problem powering it. Your 3600 would be fine on it. Just feed in the bale slowly. Chopping silage is when there power hungry. Have a chat with N where I got mine. He had a few choppers when I was there.
Jeulin are a local brand here with plenty on the ground. You’ve got a pailleuse/ensileuse (straw/silage) chopper. Those are kinda out of fashion because the silage part adds a lot of weight.
We’ve a few choppers and one of them is a mounted straw/silage that’s considerably heavier...saying that, it’s welded onto a Fiat 880 (?), I think that’s the model anyhow, and she handles it no bother. It’s mounted.
For a small yard/buildings with cul de sacs to be reversed out of, the mounted is the job. For large buildings etc the trained is your only job. The trained are bigger, bulkier and awkward.
https://www.donedeal.ie/view/25834616
Jeantill straw blower
A friend of ours has one of those and he came down for us to try it, it could barely blow 30ft into the sheds here. Neighbours lucas 20r looks to have a far better blow on it
I've a trailed Teagle, think its a 808s, cable controlled operated by the Ford 4000. So I wouldn't discount using your 3cyl. It will bed a shed 40' wide over the feed barrier easily enough but can't give it full flow of straw as the tractor wouldn't be able to maintain revs and could lead to a blocked spout.
The straw could be spread further with more power and a full flow to the rotor, but it is convenient to leave hooked up for the duration of the winter.
The Teagle doesn't have any way of starting the flywheel without the rotor but I don't find this a problem.
The body is smaller than some other makes I usually only put in one bale at a time as the second is a tight fit, exaggerated by the bales from the Claas 255 being a bit more than 1.2m diameter.
Firstly Thanks for all the replies, I was not expecting to see so many today to be honest.
https://www.agriaffaires.com/occasion/pailleuse/40137776/cartel.html
There’s a similar one for sale close by. Only used twice a year to bed a turkey house so in good condition. Would be €800 though.
Those will self-load either squares or rounds. There’s nothing to go wrong with them only the chain and sprockets will eventually wear out.
How is the 3000 64hp nash?. They weren't that from the factory were they?There is hope for me yet, my desire would be to use the 47hp 3600 or 64hp 3000 if possible and do as you do Ray, by leaving it on for most of the winter.
4610 engine, he was getting it ready for tractor pulling...How is the 3000 64hp nash?. They weren't that from the factory were they?
How is the 3000 64hp nash?. They weren't that from the factory were they?
4610 engine, he was getting it ready for tractor pulling...
If thats the one I'm thinking of you'd probably throw the straw further with a rusty fork then it can.Anyone on here running a trailed KV like a 842?