In private farmsteads or collective farms, where there are cattle, sheep, goats, rabbits and other livestock, an excellent purchase will be a hay and straw chopper, or as it is called by the people - a grass cutter. It is very necessary when it is required to prepare combined fodders or litter to animals.
Which chopper to choose?
There are two varieties of grass and straw shredders. One is for the tractor and chop the straw into a large fraction, while packing it in bales directly on the field, after harvesting the crops. These bales are convenient for later use, as well as for implementation. This type is called a rotary straw shredder.
Another kind - can be domestic or industrial, depending on size and productivity. In a small private farmstead where there is hay, straw and a lot of grass is mowed for animal feed, such a chopper of grass and straw will come to the rescue.
After all, cattle breeders used to manually cut a large fraction of reeds, and straw that go into the feed. Now the process has become much easier, because such equipment as grass and straw shredders, as well as other organic plant residues, do the work for a person.
Due to the fact that different sieves can be placed on the hay and straw chopper, the material of different fractions is cut. Small - suitable for feed cattle, and large, used as litter.
Those who cultivate mushrooms , in particular, veshenok, always need a substrate for the mycelium, which serves as a cut straw. In order not to buy it, a small chopper is used, which makes it possible to grow mushrooms for free.
An important condition when working with a chopper is that the mass to be processed must have a moisture content of not more than 25%, that is, to be dried, not fresh. This device is capable of processing any thickness of the plant, and therefore is an indispensable assistant in the subsidiary farm.