stuckmotor
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How'd you form the angles?
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Sodo
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Don't have to bend it - you can use 6 plates and weld all the corners.
DaveOmak
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Yeah.... I have a rolled piece of metal I want to mount just below the cutters and it will follow the curve of the drum... It should discharge pretty good... I pull the chopped straw out with a fork now... I have to disengage the PTO so something serious doesn't happen... It''s just a PITA to keep having to turn the PTO off...
I like that straw chopper.
Thanks Maverick.... It's a bit different.... and it was fairly easy to build....
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Agreed, that's why I would suggest to push the pile out from the backside (where you are standing to load it). If the roofing is long the pile will just keep sliding down the roofing.
Wait….are you driving the tractor while running this thing?
DaveOmak
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I have chopped while standing on the platform, on the rear of the chopper.... Bride was driving down the beds of garlic... I had a rack to store wafers of straw while I was doing that... Worked pretty good.... then I raked out the straw when we were done with the chopping...
Now I use it stationary, sort of... pull up to the straw bale and chop it all up.... then move to the next bale... etc... then pitch into apple bins so it was easy to move and store for later......
Doing anything around that chopper drum, while it is motion, is something that doesn't appeal to me... I wouldn't be able to read my obituary......
downsizingnow48
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Don't want to see this thread fade away! I am sure there are lots of good ideas still out there. Will offer up a super-low-tech tool for something that comes up all the time - cutting of floppy sheet materials like plywood and particle board. See photos. Two long boards, whatever you have, two short boards, whatever you have, screwed together to make a parallelogram. It collapses together to be stored in a corner when you don't need it. Screws need to be driven about 1/2" down to be out of the way of the blade. Add a third short board, movable, to support wherever you are making the cut. No more binding etc. Works good on any sheet material, especially odd shapes. Takes about 2 minutes to make using scrap you were going to throw away anyway.
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Soo simple! Thanks for the idea!
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k0ua
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I like it!:thumbsup:
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Choker Chain Grab Hook. Push it under the fallen log/tree, hook on to the choker chain, and then pull the choker chain under. A lot easier than pushing the pin end of the choker chain under and then trying to find it to grab it with your finger tips and pull it thru.
Leejohn
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Where did you get that choker chain?
