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Took a drive yesterday and bought a new flaker feeder. It hauls and feeds out 2 of the 3x4x8 that I feed. It is operated remotely with a key fob. Push the right button and things happen. You set a bale flat on the table on the rear. It tips up on edge in the feeding position. Drop the table back down and load another bale. Drive to the field, cut the twine on the bale to be fed, push the correct button and the arm to the right pushes the bale to the left. Just tap the button as you drive and it drops off a flake at a time. Get done with that bale just push a button and it moves the push arm back to the ready position. Lift bale #2 into place and repeat. This is going to make feeding a lot easier for
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Picture 1, 2, 3 are the left, back, and right side. Pic #4 shows the lift table part way up. Pic #5 shows to push arm about half way across.
 
webfoot said:
Took a drive yesterday and bought a new flaker feeder. It hauls and feeds out 2 of the 3x4x8 that I feed. It is operated remotely with a key fob. Push the right button and things happen. You set a bale flat on the table on the rear. It tips up on edge in the feeding position. Drop the table back down and load another bale. Drive to the field, cut the twine on the bale to be fed, push the correct button and the arm to the right pushes the bale to the left. Just tap the button as you drive and it drops off a flake at a time. Get done with that bale just push a button and it moves the push arm back to the ready position. Lift bale #2 into place and repeat. This is going to make feeding a lot easier for View attachment 3089View attachment 3090View attachment 3091View attachment 3093View attachment 3094me.
Picture 1, 2, 3 are the left, back, and right side. Pic #4 shows the lift table part way up. Pic #5 shows to push arm about half way across.
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What is the average weight of your 3x4x8 bales? Grass hay or grass clover mix? Those chip or flake feeders sure make feeding easier for the smaller one person operation.
 
Puzzled said:
If you have time, send some videos when you get going with it.
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It will probably be a while until I get it going and I don't have a video camera. Google D&M Feeder. He has a web site with real well done video of these machines working.

bullwriter said:
What is the average weight of your 3x4x8 bales? Grass hay or grass clover mix? Those chip or flake feeders sure make feeding easier for the smaller one person operation.
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The bales run around 1,200 pound. Some lighter and alfalfa generally runs heavier.
 
The running gear would need some beefing up if I was using it around here.I'm sure your place is just as rough in places.That would be my only concern.
 
This flake feeder is the best thing since sliced bread. Cut feeding time in half. So much safer. Feeding is a pleasure not a chore. Doing it from the comfort of the cab with the heater turned up. No more dealing with snotty old range cows and having to have the dog save me. Or crawling up on to the bed of the truck. This thing might make me fat and lazy.
 
Well one thing for sure, no snotty old range cow is gonna try to get in the cab of that pickup..
Feeding cattle on a ranch one winter, the vehicle they had me using was an International(?)Scout, pickup style rig.
Could put it in low range, low gear hop in the back of it and let it go slowly across some of the pastures while throwing
hay out to the cows.
As soon as I got out of the cab and closed the door, the one Border Collie would move over and sit in the drivers seat.
It looked just like she was driving.
 
:unsure: maybe 8-10 bales. Don't remember for sure, but it had low side racks. The cattle were run in three different groups.
About 35-40 hd of adult animals that were split into two separate groups, and another group of 10-15 calves. Goal was not
to muddy the pastures. The scout was lighter to use than a full sized pickup. Pretty sure I loaded it more than once per day.
 

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