Posted by Leroy on November 04, 2009 at 06:25:03 from (209.143.52.155):
In Reply to: building a hayrack posted by jacksonduper on November 03, 2009 at 12:27:20:
You say a green chopper so I figure you must be meaning a flail chopper and as I have not heard of any being made for years the John Deere 15 & 16 being about the newest that I know of they all are a design that is 30-40 years old and with those older models they will not load a long wagon like the new forage harvesters will. We had a John Deere No.10 flail chopper and it had trouble filling the back of a 14' bed. We had some shorter leg type of cattle so height was an issue and we wanted the bed as low as possible and the wagon gear was a wood wheel gear with rubber put on and with the fifth wheel type of steering we had to use a low height sill to clear tires while turning and still not get it too high the cows could not reach in the bed to eat so we used 4 X 6 treated posts with just boughten 2 x 6 lumber for the floor nailed cross ways of the sills so as to not add any aditional height. We also only made it 6' wide so the cows could reach the middle to get the feed, we made a V hopper the length of the bed with about 2' open on the botton for the feed to drop down thru. Only used treated lumber where the cows could not get to it, rest standard lumber yard material and lasted for years and sold the bed when the dairy heard left along with the hay machinery. We had 3 16' and 1 18' wagon and the 18' was the last to load as was way to much walking to load. Before we got the feed bed built we tried loading on the 16' flat bed and it just did not work and the chopper would not get the feed to the back of the bed. Everybody is talking about way overdoing the beds, no way do you need anything that heavy.
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