Want to Save 548 Bales? 629 Gallons of Diesel? And 73 Hours Every Year?
Discover The Exact Method Cattlemen Use – And How You Can Too
Every Year Cattlemen Who Switched to Hustler Bale Processors Are Saving:
Running the numbers for the typical ranch, which previously feeds 1,000 bales per year these are the savings achieved. Feed savings vary depending on the type of feed (Grass Hay is used in this example). Dry Alfalfa by comparison from the studies, saves 106 bales for every 1,000 which is close to the value of a Chainless TH205 bale processor, meaning your savings in hay or feed costs alone could cover the cost of a new machine in just 1 year!
Saving up to 548 Bales
Saving 629 Gallons of Diesel
Saving up to 73 Hours
49 mile longer windrows
Saving $980+ in wearing parts
The 3 Most Common Advantages Leading Cattlemen Gained When Switching to Hustler's Chainless Bale Processor
1. More Nutritional Intake For Your Cattle
Hay remains intact and is not destroyed. The bale feeder simply teases the bale apart with its unique low speed 3:1 ratio rotors into a tidy windrow without chopping or grinding the bale. This provides some key benefits that ranchers really appreciate:
- The leaves and/or grain, where a large proportion of the nutrition is found, are not smashed to powder and blown away as dust. The Hustler bale processor preserves the leaf and grain so your cattle can eat it.
- Any mold in a bale is separated from the hay without mixing it in, allowing cattle to eat fresh, clean hay.
- Ranchers are reporting up to 80% reductions in mineral supplement consumption, and up to 20% reductions in hay consumption for the same live weight gains, with the same bales!
2. Increased Versatility with Reduced Plugging
Whatever bale you have available you can rest assured that Hustler’s Chainless bale processing system will feed it out. Leading ranchers are particularly impressed with the fact that Hustler bale processors process:
- All round bales, including 4 and 5 ft wide, up to 6 ft diameter.
- All square bales even sizes up to 8 ft long.
- All wrapped high moisture balage (baled silage) bales – without ever plugging!
- All Hay & Straw bales of any forage type – proven with more than 110 different forage types.
- All frozen bales that have been stored outside over winter.
3. Simplicity & Reduced Downtime
Leading ranchers demand reliability, a key reason they love the simplicity of the Hustler bale processor. Finally, a feeding system that is engineered and proven in the coldest of winter climates saving you downtime because of:
- No wearing parts to maintain, replace, or vibrate loose and hurt your cattle.
- Simple hydraulically driven design, with no PTO shaft and very few moving parts to keep adjusted, greased and maintained.
- Low-speed rotors that allow the tractor to be operated at not much more than an idle, teasing bales apart quickly instead of chopping.
- Virtually no dust to clog air filters on your tractor, stick to your grease points or get in the eyes of your cattle.
- Ultra-low power requirement allows the bale processing system to be powered with small tractors and even your pickup should it have a hydraulic supply, saving you gallons of fuel each day.
- Ranchers are reporting fuel savings of over 60% compared to their previous PTO-powered hay processor.
Ranchers Who Switched Tell us Why
Ease of operation, efficiency and safety meet on a bison ranch thanks to the Hustler Chainless LX105 bale processor
US sales yard halved their feeding time and got 100% utilization of their hay after purchasing a Hustler bale unroller
Texas beef ranchers “think how efficient Hustler made them” in their daily feeding and rebaling operation
Canadian beef farmer finds affordable bale feeding solution to put more pounds on his herd with a 12% saving on hay
Nebraska Ranch Owner and Farm Machinery Dealer Peter Pelster Secured Hustler Equipment Agency after Running a Chainless Bale Processor on his Ranch for 3 Years
15 More Reasons Ranchers are Switching to Hustler Bale Processors
Hustler’s Bale Processor and Bale Unroller Range
What are ranchers, universities and dealers saying about Hustler bale processors
“The results here are alot more gentle, so it will feed out the way we like it”
“After running the Hustler for a few months, we decided to go ahead and purchase two more”
“I couldn’t believe it, but it saves a lot of hay”
“Now, feeding can happen in 10 minutes. Our waste is not even measurable at this point! One person can now do the job that used to take at least two people”.
“In certain times of the year we’ll use hay rings, we’ll use hay trailers with heavy use areas, so we feed with rings, we feed with hay trailers along with the bale feeder, but a 1000 times over, a 1000 times over this bale feeder is a far way better in my opi
“I have to say the new Chainless X5000 bale cart is fantastic and a great improvement on the 4000, we have noticed a big difference in the amount of hay we are feeding out and reduced wastage”.
“Moving into my mid-sixties, I’m done with wrestling bales of hay, so we got a Hustler for this purpose, which has relieved the physical strain”
“With the Hustler, we can repeatedly do three bales in four days, which is a reduction of 33%”
“There’s much less loss because of the lack of destruction to the ground and the lack of waste for the hay”
“It’s allowing us to be more efficient and faster and to feed better because we can blend that hay as it’s coming out, and to know exactly how many pounds we’re putting on the ground.”
“With the Hustler, I can put out 19 bales in a day where before it would have been 30 or more”
“The CHX5000 has performed well in our operation, as a bale unloader in our bunker silo where we load the hay directly into our feed trucks as well as unloading big bales directly into fence line bunks.”
“Not only has it saved me an hour and ten a day, I’ve also cut back a bale.”
“Our in-calf rate is 8-10% better than it was previously, and this season is the first year with a zero postpartum mortality rate with all of our fresh cows. And I think that’s 100% because of the way we’ve changed our feeding! It’s been a fantastic investmen
“We put all that time and energy to put up beautiful hay with all the Alfalfa leaves, and the processor kind of just blows it up into the air. I wanted to go with something that would just roll the bales out”
Chainless Bale Processors vs other Bale Processor Types
The Pros & Cons of Each Feeding System
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| ✔ Hay & balage is teased apart not pulverized preserving the nutritional value of the forage | Χ Feed is pulverized destroying nutrition and fines are often blown away in the wind. This green dust is the most valuable part of the bale | ~ Hay & balage is unrolled not pulverized preserving some nutritional value of the forage |
| ✔ If a bale jams the platform can be lifted to eject bale completely elimination the chance of plugging | Χ Prone to plugging especially when trying to process balage bales with no way to eject a plugged bale | Χ Less prone to plugging, but no way to eject a bale if plugged |
| ✔ Lowest dust feeding = Cleaner healthier livestock | Χ Dust creates a Messy Environment & livestock respiratory issues and clogs tractor air filters | ✔ Low dust feeding = Cleaner healthier livestock |
| ✔ Hydraulic Drive, No PTO less maintenance and safer, less fuel consumption | Χ High horsepower required, PTO driven higher maintenance, harder to connect up | ✔ Hydraulic Drive, No PTO less maintenance and safer, less fuel consumption |
| ✔ Longer windrows. Forage can be stretch over as long or short distance as the operator prefers giving cattle equal access to feed | Χ Windrow length is limited causing cattle to bunch, compete and trample on feed | ~ Longer windrows, but the length of windrow is limited to how the bale decides to unroll |
| ✔ Fewer wearing parts. Feed rotors last the lifetime of the feeder. Other than greasing the machine there is little to maintain | Χ Flails require frequent replacement, requiring costly parts and labor costs sometimes annually | ~ Few wearing parts. Other than greasing the machine there is little to maintain |
| ✔ Slow-moving 3:1 teasing rotors are gentle on feed dropping feed into a tight narrow windrow | Χ High-velocity flails turns stones into projectiles that can be lethal when feeding with livestock in the pens | Χ Will not feed frozen bales. Tightly packed hay bales will take much longer to feed |
| ✔ Easily feeds any bale even wet balage without jamming | Χ Prone to plugging up when feeding, especially wetter forages | ✔ Fast and easier feeding of loose, short chopped or extra wet balage |
| ✔ Simple hydraulic controls, with infinite control of feeding rows | Χ Have to run PTO and hydraulic controls and deal with shearbolts. Limited control of feed row | ~ Easy single lever control, but limited control of feed row |
| ✔ Total control self-loading system spears the bale, and accurately and gently places bales in the feed chamber. | Χ Bales tumble and bounce into feed chamber, with no guarantee it’ll land the correct way. This puts extra stress on the drawbar and drive mechanism | ~ Self-loading system spears the bale, and accurately and gently places bales in the feed chamber. Loading sequence cannot be reversed once bale is positioned over feeding chamber |
| ✔ Bales are secure during transport on undulating terrain due to being speared instead of cradled | Χ Bales can bounce or roll off loading forks during transport | ✔ Bales are secure during transport on undulating terrain due to being speared instead of cradled |
| ✔ Feeds bales at an idle of the tractor | Χ Requires tractor to run between 1200-1500rpm | ✔ Feeds bales at an idle of the tractor |
| ✔ Processes all bales sizes and types. Tested and proven on over 110 different types of bale and forage | Χ Not all flail-type machines handle all bale sizes, shapes or forages. And requires adjustments to switch between bale types. | Χ Feeds most types of bale sizes, struggles with high-density square and round bales |
| Χ Doesn’t spread staw. Owners found they could just back into a pen and unroll a bale then put 20 cattle in there and the cows would spread it out themselves. | ✔ Spreads straw up to 30′ for bedding | Χ Doesn’t spread staw. |
| ✔ Rotors will to remove net wrap as bales are processed, but net wrap can be removed before feeding as bale is held securely above feed chamber. Twine ideally needs to be removed before processing | Χ Although it’s convenient to shred net wrap or twine, this causes additional maintenance when cultivating the pasture (destroys bearings on discs) and hassle burning off flail rotor. It’s also bad for the cattle | Χ Twin and net wrap must be removed prior to loading and feeding bales |
| ✔ Almost silent operation, allow cattle to feed comfortably | Χ Noisey laboring machine tends to spook cattle | ~ Noisey feeding, but less noise than flail type processors |
| ✔ Proven by cattelmen to save up to 54.8% of your hay supplies | Χ Degrades feed quality of most feed types, especially highest value forages | ~ Reduces hay waste compared to Flail type processors |
| ✔ 5 Year NO-BULL warranty backed by a 60 year family-owned businhttps://www.hustlerequipment.com/bale-processor/#get-a-quoteess | Χ 1 Year from most manufacturers | Χ 1 Year from most manufacturers |
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