Posted by Bruce from Can. on October 12, 2019 at 07:25:01 from (74.12.72.61):
In Reply to: Tub grinders posted by Al Baker(pumpman) on October 11, 2019 at 10:26:43:
. TMR mixers are expensive and require fairly high hp tractor to chop bales, put a lot of hours on a tractor and the tractor will burn through a bunch of fuel. Chopping hay in a TMR mixer requires that you also pay close attention to the sharpness of the cutting knives. Dull knives require more more time and hp and fuel to chop the hay. Many dairy farmers around me went this way a few years ago, and found several things. First everyone thought they could stick any old 100 plus hp tractor on the mixer, only to find that the clutch packs on most 40 year old tractors won’t take the strain . Secondly TMR mixers in truth , have a short life expectancy, and not staying on top of knife maintenance will also put extra stress on the TMR gear box, and this is an expensive repair. One other thing that hasn’t been mentioned is the fact that cows rumens work better with longer coarse hay than short chopped feed. Forces the cow to chew more and longer, and far less chance of a twisted stomach feeding long hay compared with chopped feed. Maybe a bit of wasted hay around the feed rack isn’t costing as much as it might first appear. Keeping your hay under cover to prevent spoilage is probably more cost effective that buying a machine to chop the hay in an attempt to prevent wasted hay. Wrapping hay with stretch wrap plastic is much cheaper today than building a storage shed to put hay into. Storage buildings require insurance, maintenance, and a large capital investment. The plastic to wrap a bale this year cost me two bucks per bale. I feed my hay in a labour intensive tie stall dairy barn, and have close to zero feed lost, but I don’t expect you to want to go to this extreme just to save a bit of hay
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