I have a 360 chain feeder . Every 3 links had a slat , but it didn’t hold up , put slats at every link and it worked a lot better . I put 3 knives 1/3 of the way thru the bales and they unroll really well! I do what you do too . I’m on heavy wet soil tho. Only works when it’s dry or frozen . If I roll hay out when it’s wet and not froze , I just rolled out their carpet and they’d only eat about %10 and stomp the rest in the mud ( mind you I am rolling out hay in 4-8 year old pastures ) when it gets wet by me , it’s no joke ! I have way too sporadic weather! Good to see you’re finding success with it in your area! Also , when it gets below 10 degrees , I roll out hay for a week or more pending up coming weather, less start ups of the tractor in cold weather . Hay keeps well , poop freezes really fast and doesn’t spread when the cows are walking thru the hay .
Thanks for the feedback Paul. Yes the original 350 used to have slats every link, dealers wanted fewer slats because they felt it would be more aggressive with slats spaced further apart on tighter bales, so the 360 model was built with fewer slats. With the Hustler we designed it so bars can easily bolted in or removed to suit operator preferences and different conditions. As you found, we also found with our testing, that slats in every link is the ultimate setup, we've since moved back to slats on every link on the current models LX104 and LX105. We've also strengthened up the slats in the latest model to handle heavier frozen bales on the latest LX104 and LX105. 💪👌
we un roll our hay in the barn at feed gates unrolling cut or hay usage by a third we also have a 100 ft feed trough for silage and crip feed our calves in a crip lot
I have a 360 chain feeder . Every 3 links had a slat , but it didn’t hold up , put slats at every link and it worked a lot better . I put 3 knives 1/3 of the way thru the bales and they unroll really well! I do what you do too . I’m on heavy wet soil tho. Only works when it’s dry or frozen . If I roll hay out when it’s wet and not froze , I just rolled out their carpet and they’d only eat about %10 and stomp the rest in the mud ( mind you I am rolling out hay in 4-8 year old pastures ) when it gets wet by me , it’s no joke ! I have way too sporadic weather! Good to see you’re finding success with it in your area! Also , when it gets below 10 degrees , I roll out hay for a week or more pending up coming weather, less start ups of the tractor in cold weather . Hay keeps well , poop freezes really fast and doesn’t spread when the cows are walking thru the hay .
Thanks for the feedback Paul. Yes the original 350 used to have slats every link, dealers wanted fewer slats because they felt it would be more aggressive with slats spaced further apart on tighter bales, so the 360 model was built with fewer slats. With the Hustler we designed it so bars can easily bolted in or removed to suit operator preferences and different conditions. As you found, we also found with our testing, that slats in every link is the ultimate setup, we've since moved back to slats on every link on the current models LX104 and LX105. We've also strengthened up the slats in the latest model to handle heavier frozen bales on the latest LX104 and LX105. 💪👌
Good stuff, you should make more videos like this, good information
Really appreciate it.
we un roll our hay in the barn at feed gates unrolling cut or hay usage by a third we also have a 100 ft feed trough for silage and crip feed our calves in a crip lot
Doing well there James, and I hope Harvestor of Brookhill big handsome boy is doing well. How's he going by the way?
He’s 💯
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Thank you 🙏