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Ft. Ripley MN | Yes. A neighbor and I both run highline bale processors with the feed chopper and can get a tub ground consistency,. Have a friend that uses the 2 point 256 to grind his hay and another guy that has a Vermeer 7000 to do it. Another neighbor hires in a custom tub grinder.
Not gonna comment on how the other guys do it but I will only grind up a weeks worth at a time. Yes it’s one more thing to do every week but any sort of a wet forecast and your hay starts molding. Not worth feeding it to the cows and have discarded a days worth of hay before. I just windrow out the bales in about a 50ft stretch and then push back in a pile. In my opinion if your blowing up against a bale back wall clean up the old hay before you put new stuff in. I don’t think there is much to go wrong with the old haybuster but I would ask someone who is knowledgeable on it just to know what to look for.
Probably would be a little cheaper and quicker to hire the tub grinder on a per bale basis but I have a machine that lets me grind hay and bed cattle and keep the quality of the fed product up. A shed to put the ground hay in is on the wishlist
I should add when I bought this processor we still had a reel auggie so getting this one with the second rotor was important to me. Now that there is a vertical mixer maybe I could have spent less and just used a conventional processor but it is nice to just dump in and the mixer doesn’t need to size it more.
When I was mixer shopping one guy did tell me that instead of replacing all the knives at once just start with the bottom couple and in a year move them up and put new ones on the bottom since those see more abuse then knives farther up the screw and rotating them through. Just a thought
Edited by centralmnangus 11/7/2024 20:59
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Grinding hay with processor before TMR
