I'm Scott Pridmore we're from
Pridmore Farms in Consul, Saskatchewan.
We're in the Southwest corner of Saskatchewan against the Alberta/ Montana border.
From the north of us here is mostly cattle and onto the
south of us there's mix a cattle and green farming.
One cut of hay a year is all we get here.
It's never a heavy crop but hey. We've
had this machine four seasons now.
We figure we run 10,000 bales with this
machine — mostly just round bales.
I've never done anything but greased it.
What we like about this machine is our
older hay that's got mold in it —
we like to chop it through there and
it busts it up and gets rid of the mold
and dust and I like how it grinds it up nice.
And cows do a good job eating it.
I feel they clean up better than they did with the other grinders.
That's what I like about it the best — the chain drive. It just keeps
the bale rolling and feeding evenly
and there's no problems with it. No adjustments that I've even made to it. It's simple.
That was the biggest thing we didn't
like about the other ones they would jam
hay up, and you'd get a bale stuck in there. I was sick of
plugging up the screws on the other ones.
With this particular one that
never happened. No problems. It had no way of jamming. It's nice to go because you're
always worried about time and it's nice to go out and feed cows and come home and clean it out
every few days of twine and no problems.
The other grinders I had trouble with is
when I was picking bales up and putting
them in. I'd have trouble getting lined up
good enough to get them up there.
I have no problem getting a hold of the bale on this one, where I did in the past
I like the side for the square bale
attachment and how the side comes down that
makes it easy. The big tires on this one — the old grinder didn't have big tires.
So it makes it a lot smoother in the
field and if you hit holes or something then
it stands up better.
Previous grinders they were very
light and this thing when you hook on to it,
it's heavy and you know it's
there and you just look at it and it's well-built
and solid and full of iron and that's what I
like to see.
I liked it from the first day I ran it
and I still talk about it all the time.
There's other Vermeer equipment I'd like
to try some day. I like their hay rakes.
If they make a tractor we'll get a Vermeer tractor.
I'm Scott Pridmore and we have switched to the Vermeer BPX9000.
