I've hauled quite a few loads with both of them, granted they do toss small stones if in the bedding, our stalls are bottomed out and the sub base gets in the bedding, however, they rarely if ever come back at you maybe more so dumping into a pile and you let it accumulate too much before creeping ahead, never had that happen when doing fields though. When twine wraps on the shaft (and I still can't figure how it gets in there) the bale twine easily unravels from the flail so does long strands of hay. If you stand aside and set the apron chain on slow, you can watch how it gradually eats away at the load, it does a really nice job, some of the smaller frozen bits from a pile of manure was no issue at all, just don't put a large chunk in there like one of the help did, I heard that clear across the field and said you break it doing stupid things, you'll fix it, lucky you don't work for me, I'd have your check and fire you, for being ignorant and reckless with hard to replace equipment that we cannot be without, (is why we have 2) he thought you could put a big frozen chunk in there, idiot. He broke it up with hammer and bar. But same dumb@ss let a bearing go so far it wallowed a nice hole around the race, some people... They will take one heck of a wad of hay too, but I do not like doing that, it will shake and flex a bit, even a pile of pads of hay will do that. When I mix in bad hay, I fluff and spread it out, set the apron chain on slow when there is a lot of it.
Auger or similar type beater does toss things from my experiences when dumping in piles, we get some nice help at our place, they think manure is garbage, and there are cans, a dumpster etc., someone tossed scissors and assorted junk in there, this was on an old beat up allis chalmers spreader with a regular beater, had to duck and I went off the handle on these people about it, problem is I don't hire em, but get stuck with them and pay for it sometimes, I used to get too heated when people act stupid I suppose, but when you have things like that in manure, justifiably so.
The other thing I used this for is mulching, not like a machine meant to do that, but you can load em up with loose hay, straw, set the apron chain on the slowest speed and have at it, just you need that hay nearby, and a helper to make time, I did an entire paddock with it when over seeding, worked quite well.
There is one sealed bearing on the flail shaft and one that you can grease you definitely want to check on that and for loose parts, one of the flush type head, allen screws/bolts holding a gear or sprocket almost came apart, caught it because I open the side cover and check, oil, grease things. Before my leg got screwed up, there was a complaint about bees stinging horses near the manure ramp, ground hornets they say, I can't find em, went to service that spreader cause they don't when I am not around as usual, and low and behold, no one had opened up that cover all summer huge nest of yellow jackets, telling you to grease/oil that darned spreader !!! LOL
Do inspect those flail weights on the flail ends, you don't want one of those flying off.
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