FEEDING THE COWS HAS GOT FASTER! NEW SHEAR GRAB!

[@ciaranconeely8579]

Just found your channel. Comment for the algorithm to help the channel 👍.

[@garymadden2656]

That’s is some grab👌

[@Alejandrogarcia-fp1fr]

nice shear grab

[@nevillegill2879]

Nice machine. I used to feed with a much smaller sheer grab I found if I dropped the first block then went got the second block and used the grab full to push the first grab into place then dropped the second block. I found it quicker than opening the grab to drop the block and then closing it to push in the grab. Only what I found. Never meant as a criticism. I enjoy your videos and I admire your system.

[@nirvairsingh1678]

👍👍👍

[@johnearle6667]

We bought a 6ft red rock and have it on a Jcb 414 very happy with it also except for the price

[@cdemo1186]

Well ware Mark, some beast of a grab. 💪🏼 A new set of shoes are required on the 3cx 😉, if she's still in the yard 🤔

[@erhanerol6907]

Çerez tadında güzel bir video.

[@tommybreen9677]

Did you ever think of hiring in the contractor to do the feeding? I think they used to do it on the Kilkenny research farm.

[@MCMilkingIt]

I think the loader is a handy machinery needed on the farm so makes sense to do it ourselves but yes they did it in greenfield at the start

[@bkissane1]

Fine grab, we have the smaller 5ft8 two ram version for the last 15 years. It has the KV tines which is a weakness as they break and come loose. Thinking of converting to hardox tines. I see you drop the silage block in front of the feed barrier and reverse back same as we do ourselves, does the block ever be inclined to stay in the grab and you have to tip it out instead since the tines arent as rounded as the KV type ones?

[@MCMilkingIt]

Yes the silage doesn't slide off the hardox tines as easy but once they are worn in and you get a bit used to it it's not too bad.

[@kierancusack3156]

If you leave the pushing in the grabs until the end you will speed it up also as you are not tipping as much

[@farmerjohn19]

Thought you had upgraded the digger to a 4cx?

[@MCMilkingIt]

This was filmed in mid February

[@patdonnelly4803]

You could cut the 30 mins in half again by making some kind of a scraper with rubber on the bottom of it. Put it on the back actor , drop your block of silage per span then drive back and lower the ' scraper ' and drive handy and it'll push up the silage for you, Think like Henry Ford,,, look for the laziest man in the workplace and ask him how would he do it😂 Id say an old cutting edge with a quick attach bracket would do it,

[@mourne]

the shear grab is some yolk. hows the breeding going? do yous syronise many or any off your stock mark?

[@MCMilkingIt]

Going very well. Over 50% submitted in the first 11 days. All natural heats with the cows and some synchronisation with the heifers

[@dog6963]

Can all your cows feet at the same time?

[@MCMilkingIt]

Not here in the cubicles, but yes if I include feed space near the milking parlour

[@erhanerol6907]

Sistem güzel

[@denisreidy8106]

A Tractor is faster with the grab, those Jcbs and diggers are dead ducks around the yard, more suited to council road work

[@MCMilkingIt]

I find tractor hydraulics very slow. Plus you can't use big grabs as they aren't built for the weight

[@eoinkin20]

Would yee not just invest in a diet feeder?

[@MCMilkingIt]

It averages less than 1 hour per day to feed 480/500 cows. I don't think I could do it that fast with a diet feeder. Would certainly be alot more expensive anyway