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12 Reasons Why the BeddingPro is Your Best Choice

1 It requires 40 hp, which means great fuel savings, and a minimum of dust and noise.

2 The compact design suits confined areas.

3 It offers controlled and uniformed distribution , which means less time and less waste.

4 Less waste means less product used.

5 Less product means you don’t harvest as much, or you have product to sell.

6 If you don’t need as much product, that is less you have to purchase.

7 Can be used on skidsteer or tractor.

8 BeddingPro shredes canary grass, straw, frozen bails, silage, and corn silage.

9 The BeddingPro costs a fraction of other brands.

10 Try and find another that can do all this at a weight of less than 1200 lbs!

11 It also has self loading, extra bail carrying capability, wide spreading option and hydraulic model.

12 It is well built, low maintance. and has no exotic parts.

P.E.I bale processor gaining popularity in horticulture

When Paul Fox of Double R Manufacturing first started developing a more flexible and portable bale processor for the livestock market, he had no idea it would find a following in Canada’s strawberry fields or land recovery operations.

“I wasn’t aiming for these markets,” explained the company president, recalling the day a P.E.I. strawberry grower entered his shop, raving about how well the BeddingPro® worked at spreading straw mulch in his berry fields. ”I was scratching my head, trying to figure out what this guy was talking about.”

Now, the Crapaud, P.E.I. – based company is looking to expand it’s market for the bale processor, which conveniently fits onto a rear or front-mounted three point-hitch.

The bale processor has developed quite a following in the Maritimes.

Claude McCardle of P.E.I. purchased his Double R bale processor a few years ago after contracting out his straw spreading to the operator of a large-scale bale processor.

“Contracting out didn’t work very well,” recalled McCardle, who grows about eight acres of strawberries plus raspberries and low-bush blueberries at his farm called the Berry Patch.

He went on a hunt for a straw spreader that could be powered by his 50 horsepower tractor, and he discovered the Double R model. ”That’s the big advantage. I didn’t have a very big tractor and with those big bale busters you requite at least a 90 horsepower tractor.”

McCardle, who’s farm is located just outside of Charlottetown near Mount Stewart, described his bale processor’s coverage as “perfect. It basically unrolls the bale as it was originally baled up and shreds it. And you can control both the speed of the bale as it rolls out and your forward speed.”

He also is very pleased with the ease of operation of the bale processor. ”I can do it myself, no other labour is required.” This is a start contrast to the amount of labour McCardle used to require when he operated a small square bale processor. ”You had to follow the machine and there were two guys sitting there looking at you all the time”.

Ralph Stirling, production manager of Stirling Fruit Farms, had an opportunity to use the Double R machine on his family’s Wolfville, N.S. area operation last year, mulching straw onto the farm’s eight acres of strawberries.

“Of all the bale processors I’ve tried, this one worked the best,” he said. ”Most chop too fine or don’t have even coverage. Sure, it takes a little practice but this one worked great.”

Stirling hopes to purchase a BeddingPro in the near future. For now, the farm spreads all of its mulch manually, hand rolling round bales down the rows and spreading with hay forks.

Fox is hoping to spread the word about his product farther a field. Three years ago he traveled to Ontario with his BeddingPro proto-type, providing a field test in a Guelph-area berry field. About 10 – 12 growers from as far away as Ottawa viewed the test, which lasted about two to three hours. By the end, “everyone was happy”, said Fox. ”Every grower does something different; a different thickness, a different speed.” Over the course of the test, Fox made adjustments to his bale processor, easily accommodating the demands of the assembled growers.

Fox explained that many growers are impressed with the coverage his bale processor provides. With one round bale equaling approximately the amount o straw found in 18 small square bales, many of the assembled growers explained they can get eithg-inched os coverage over 500 feet from 18 square bales. Using the BeddingPOro, Fox achieved an eighth-inch coverage over 1, 500 feet using one round bale.

“It sheds and fluffs,” he said. ”That’s what impresses them the most; the bale goes so much further”.

The BeddingPro is designed to fit on new or existing tractors with a minimum 40 horsepower engine, making it ideal for both large and smaller growers. It is relatively compact with a size of five-and-a-half square feet and has a base weight of 1.000 pounds. Fox explained the small size allows it to work in small spaces with little head room, such as under netting or ginseng shade. The machine is also being designed to keep the dust, often associated with bale processing to a minimum.

The BeddingPro is now working across North America. Fox said the company has developed attachments that will handle such things as self-loading, and a bottom fan delivery. A side delivery attachment is in development. Fox hopes these attachments will allow the shredder to meet the requirements of livestock growers, and for crops like strawberries, blueberries, ginseng and vegetables and land reclaimation. The self-loading feature would free up a tractor that would normally be needed to load the shredder. Heavier bales can weight up to 2.000 pounds and would require a tractor equipped with a pay loader.

For more information, testimonials, or to order your BeddingPro® visit the website, or call Paul Fox at 1-888-658-2088.

ABOUT BeddingPro®
Double R Manufacturing’s flagship product, the BeddingPro® is “The Ultimate for laying down straw and silage”. It can be used for traditional farming applications as well as with berry crops and vineyards, even mining, environmental and oil industries. The BeddingPro®, developed in Central PEI Canada by Paul Fox uses a rotating drum and bale assembly kit which automatically chews and fluffs straw and silage as it’s laid, resulting in extended changing times and fresher bedding.