Feeding and ensiling

Silage milling roller

A telehandler moves down the face of a maize bunker silo, a knife roller turning in front of its bucket; the milled face stays smooth and vertical, nobody is visible. — The roller moves down, the silo face stays smooth.
Synthetic image.

A roller armed with knives, mounted in front of the bucket.
It mills the silo face instead of tearing it,
and leaves a clean surface that keeps.

Other names for this tool: silage milling cutter, unloading roller, silage cutter, roller silage unloader.

The essentials

Family: Feeding and ensiling
Hitch: On a farm loader, wheel loader or telehandler bucket
Drive: One or two hydraulic motors, depending on the model
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 roller mills the silage face, the face stays smooth and compact. On the right, torn out with a plain bucket, the silage face rips and opens to the air. Computer-generated image. — **Left:** the roller mills the silage face, the face stays smooth and compact.
**Right:** torn out with a plain bucket, the silage face rips and opens to the air.
What sets it apart:
the knives of the roller turn against the face and make the silage fall into the bucket, without disturbing the heap.
Computer-generated image.

**Left:** the roller mills the silage face, the face stays smooth and compact.
**Right:** torn out with a plain bucket, the silage face rips and opens to the air.
What sets it apart:
the knives of the roller turn against the face and make the silage fall into the bucket, without disturbing the heap.
Computer-generated image.

A roller fitted with hardened steel knives, driven by one or two hydraulic motors, is attached in front of a loader bucket.
The bucket moves down the silo face, the roller mills the silage which falls into the bucket, and an adjustable tilt adapts the attack to the heap.

This is the tool for daily unloading at the bunker silo or the clamp silo.
A milled face stays compact, little air gets in, and the silage does not heat; combined with a distributor bucket, it unloads, carries and distributes in a single pass.

Not all rollers mill grass. Some are made for maize and pig feed, and clog on long-fibre grass silage.
The oil flow and the output depend on the model, not on a generic figure.

02 What we check with you

On which machine?

A milling roller fits on the bucket of a farm loader, a wheeled loader or a telehandler.
It does not fit an excavator.
The loader hitch and its lifting capacity: we calculate them with you for your machine.

What the tool does

It cuts silage.
Its weight: we calculate it with you for your machine.

What is needed on the hydraulic side

It is driven by one or two hydraulic motors, depending on the model.
The third function on the loader, double-acting: 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 your silage, maize or grass, your silo and the bucket that will carry the roller.
Specify the hydraulics of your machine.

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 — The silage to mill Maize, pig feed, chopped grass:
the arrangement of the knives and the power of the roller are chosen with the actual silage.
02 — One motor or two One motor is enough for moderate unloading,
two motors hold the effort on a dense or wide face.
03 — The bucket that carries it Existing loader bucket, high-capacity bucket or distributor bucket:
the roller is chosen with the bucket on which it is mounted.
04 — The hydraulics of the machine Single-acting control with free return, or double-acting:
the roller is chosen with what the machine supplies.

05 Check

What is checked before ordering

The oil flow It is checked on the actual machine:
the roller must keep its speed in the densest silage.
The oil return In single-acting, a pressure-free return is required:
we check that the machine has one.
Mounting on the bucket Brackets, motor guard, hose routing:
we check that they fit the bucket and that the hoses remain protected.
The capacity of the loader It is checked with the bucket full and the roller fitted, not with the bucket alone.

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