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Missaukee Mi | While I never used a valmetal 5600 we did use a teagle tomahawk bale chopper for far too many years to process our straw. It had the sickle section like knives and any stone or stick in the straw would break them. They were a pain in the butt to change. Ours had a blower that would also plug. Even with a new set of knives the cut quality and length of cut was terrible. We had to mix it yet with our vertical mixer to break it down farther to reduce sorting. It was also super slow, took for ever to get through a bale. We had demoed a roto grind the same time and it was faster but at the time were grinding hay and straw daily directly into the mixer and the teagle was easier to change between bales and took less hp. Also had dreams of using to bed with but it was faster to unroll and spread out the round bales. We wish we would have gone with rotogrind or haybuster tub grinder and built a shed to grind into. We would have been time and money ahead. The teagle was the worst piece of equipment I've ever owned. We have since switched to chopping and bagging mature grass hay for our dry cows since we started feeding x zelit and it is so much easier and faster.
So maybe the valmetal is better built than the teagle and works just fine but if it was me I would run. At least try to demo each and see.
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Valmetal 5600 vs Rotogrind 760/1090
