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Scottville, 49454 Northwest Michigan | (don't know if I spelled defacer right)
We're considering buying a silage defacer to remove the silage from our bunker silo. Do any of you have any experience with silage defacers? Are there certain manufacturers of defacers to consider more-so than others?
We don't know anyone that has experience with defacers, so I was hoping maybe some of you may have experience.
thanks, gordon |
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NW VA | My dad built our skidsteer-mounted defacer, used well casing for the rotor and welded short flat-iron teeth on. It's chain driven from a hydraulic motor on one end. I could get some photos if you'd like, it works pretty well. |
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Manitoba | have not bought one yet, still on the wish list, but did quite a bit of research on them getting ready for the day we make the purchase. Seemed to me that the ones made by Royer Ent. in Indiana gave you a lot more machine for the money than anyone else. Again I have not used one of theirs but just going by price and how the unit seems to be built. If we don't build our own thinking we will go that route. (skid steer mount) I think their site is bunkershaver.com |
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New Hamburg, Ontario | We had a horst welding defacer that had hooked teeth. The teeth would fill up with haylage and had to reverse it to clean it out. Also it was chain drive from the hydraulic motors. Now we have a Valmetal and like it much better. The cutters on it are more like knives and not hooked so it doesn't plug up. Also its direct drive from the motors so no chains. The motors are inside the tube. It has had alot less maintanence than the horst . |
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Modena, Wisconsin | Royer seems to be the choice around us. I have watched them on skid steers, telehandlers and wheel loaders and they all seem to hold up well. |
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| JLynn- Please post a few pictures of your defacer. Thanks. |
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NW VA | This is what we came up with, the chain drive is not ideal, but seems to work ok. You can see that it's built with high reach in mind, sometimes we don't know where to stop when filling bunker.     |
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Chilliwack, British Columbia | If i was in the market for something like that, I would try this one.
http://www.easyrakefacer.com/
The best part for me is no moving parts. Pretty simple to build your own as well.
Glenn |
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NE, KS | i would undouptedly go with the EASY RAKE, i have seen them in action @ Riverview farms and it would be well worth your money ! |
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NW Iowa | Looks nice and simple to me, nice job! |
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NW Iowa | Thateasy rake looks like the cat's A$$, but it looks like the teeth should be angled more or it should have another set of teeth on top so it knocks down the silage better when it gets closer to the ground? |
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German Valley, IL | Easy rakes defeat the whole purpose of a facer.... they tear to deep into the silage and let to much air into the silage ... they do however make one hell of a nice garden hoe.... get a Royer and be done , plus they are as cheap as an easyrake. http://www.bunkershavers.com/
Edited by engbert2 7/30/2010 23:58
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