Easy Rake Brings Safety & Efficiency to Your Silage Pit

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Depending on how many cattle you feed and what stage those cattle are at, the silage pit can be your second home during the day. It can also be a very dangerous place depending on how high that pile is. Typically if your pile is high, you end up creating a cliff when you dig that silage out with a loader. If that cliff collapses at the wrong time it can be deadly. Not only that, but the resulting uneven face thats left behind can cause more spoilage in your pit.

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Those are some of the reasons behind the design of the easy rake, a device that is exactly what it sounds like. Essentially it’s a big rake that attaches to a loader, a tele-handler or a skid steer. It is long enough to reach the top of the pit and it rakes instead of digging leaving the face of your pit smooth and pocket free. I spoke to Mike Hanson of Hanson Silo Company about the easy rake at NCBA 2012.

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