CIH7777 - 7/28/2015 06:43

Thank you all for the replies...I have been using a couple old IH/Dresser 515B's right now to load silage but they need a lot of major work and $ while still only having 1.5 yard buckets. It's way too slow to load a TMR mixer with only 1.5 yards at a time and time is very hard to come by on a dairy. My silage piles are located on high and dry sand ground with a lot of rocks in it also. It's basically worthless ground for growing any decent crop on so it is best suited for silage piles right now. The only time it gets muddy is during heavy rains or during the summer thaw for a couple weeks. Even then, this ground dries up very fast in a few days. This ground is better suited for rock farming..LOL. From reading online the 550 Dresser is about 60K lbs and the 988A Cat is 80K lbs. Just looking for options here to move more material faster to fill a TMR mixer and not get over spendy on a newer loader. My mechanics are not up to snuff with all the electronic systems in I a newer loader also.