Feeding and ensiling

Feeding and bedding distributor bucket

A telehandler moves along the feed alley of a cattle barn and throws maize silage along the feed barrier from a closed bucket with a side chute; cows eat behind the barrier, nobody is visible. — The bucket moves forward, the silage falls along the feed barrier.
Synthetic image.

A bucket that fills itself and empties to the side.
It shreds silage, bales or straw,
and lays them along the trough or in the cubicles.

Other names for this tool: straw bedding bucket, silage cutter-distributor bucket, feeding bucket, loader straw distributor, auger distribution bucket.

The essentials

Family: Feeding and ensiling
Hitch: Euro hitch, farm loader, wheel loader or telehandler, depending on the model
Drive: Hydraulic: metering rollers, distribution belt or auger
Carrier machine: A farm loader, a telehandler or a wheel loader, not an excavator

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01 Use

What it is for

On the left, the side chute lays the loosened silage along the trough. On the right, the same bucket beds the cubicles by blowing out the chopped straw. Computer-generated image. — **Left:** the side chute lays the loosened silage along the trough.
**Right:** the same bucket beds the cubicles by blowing out the chopped straw.
What sets it apart:
rollers or an auger shred the material in the tub and eject it through a side chute.
Computer-generated image.

**Left:** the side chute lays the loosened silage along the trough.
**Right:** the same bucket beds the cubicles by blowing out the chopped straw.
What sets it apart:
rollers or an auger shred the material in the tub and eject it through a side chute.
Computer-generated image.

The silage drops through the chute, along the feed trough.
One pass, and every cow has her ration in front of her.
Synthetic video.

The bucket fills itself at the silo or the heap, then metering rollers or an auger shred the material in the tub and eject it through a chute, to the left or to the right.
Depending on the model, it takes chopped straw, wood shavings, lime and straw mixtures or split bales, accepts a whole bale thanks to rollers fitted with knives, or unloads silage with a milling roller mounted in front of the tub.

This is the tool for feeding and bedding in the barn, in loose housing and in the pig house.
It replaces the fork and the wheelbarrow: picking up, carrying and distributing are done in a single pass, and cleanly removed silage does not start fermenting again.

A full distributor bucket weighs far more than its material suggests. The capacity of the loader is judged with the tub full, arms raised, not empty.
The oil flow and the throwing distance depend on the model, not on a generic figure.

02 What we check with you

On which machine?

A distributor bucket fits a farm loader, a telehandler or a wheeled loader, not an excavator.
It hitches via a Euro hitch, depending on the model.
The loader hitch and the lifting capacity needed: we calculate them with you for your machine.

What the tool does

It is used to distribute feed and bedding.
It meters with rollers and distributes via a belt or a screw.
Its weight: we calculate it with you for your machine.

What is needed on the hydraulic side

Its rollers, belt or screw turn hydraulically.
The number of double-acting connections on the loader: we calculate it with you for your machine.

Your study sets the exact value for your machine.

Don't have these figures?
A photo of the machine is enough to start.

03 Your study

Have your equipment checked.

Describe what you distribute, silage, bales or straw, and the machine that will carry the bucket.
Specify the width of the feed alley.

What we need to answer you

Your loader Its hitch: Euro, or another.
Lifting The lifting capacity of the loader.
The 3rd function Present or not.
The work The use.

Without these details, the study still begins: we will ask you for them.

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or describe your need

Book an appointment with the specialist

Or call 01 84 16 55 49 · our lines are open 7 days a week, from 7h to 22h.

Written study within 3 working days, once the file is complete.

04 Choice

What determines the choice

01 — What is distributed Maize or grass silage, pig feed, round or square bale, chopped straw, wood shavings, lime and straw:
rollers, knives or auger are chosen with the material.
02 — Whole bale or bulk material A split bale or bulk material passes through a compact bucket,
a whole bale needs knife rollers and a raised tub.
03 — Unloading with the same bucket With a milling roller mounted in front of the tub, the bucket takes silage at the silo face,
without going through a silage unloader.
04 — The machine and its hydraulics Loader, telehandler, wheel loader, Euro hitch:
the bucket is chosen with the machine that carries it and what its spool valves can control.

05 Check

What is checked before ordering

The oil flow It is checked on the actual machine:
the rollers or the auger must turn at the intended speed, tub full.
The controls One double-acting control is often enough,
an electro-hydraulic diverter valve adds the side cover or the milling roller:
we check what the machine can control.
The capacity of the loader It is checked with the bucket full of the densest material, not with the volume of the tub.
Passage through the barn Alley width, door height, distribution side:
we check that the equipped machine gets through and distributes on the right side.

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