does anyone have a haycube reviews please

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mightymammoth

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Hi,

I need to dip my soak my hay to remove dust but am dreading another back breaking winter. I'm wondering if I should get a haycube http://www.haycube.co.uk/ but don't want to spend all that money if it's just going to become a storage box.

They look great but my hay comes from a round bale not in slices so not sure if it would work?

Anyone got any feedback please?
 
I think they look brilliant. Yes £100 is extortionate and ive spent hours trying to think of a suitable alternative but the thing is there seems not to be one.
Spot-on, I totally agree but if you have a bad back (or at least one with what ever problem I have) its the hanging them to drain that kills me. Over time in winter my back gets worse and worse them improves come summer when im not soaking.
I believe they are fine to stuff with loose hay, I read somewhere you can still get a huge amount in.
 
I have seen that they dont drain very well. There was something on here the other day about what was best hay feeder.
 
think you could adapt one of those pheasant/poultry feeders-you know, the barrel ones on wooden legs with a hole in the bottom. think they cost £25+delivery from certain suppliers. you'd still have to lift them out but I just soak under a tie up ring, leave to drain for 10mins and they're fine.£100 is pretty expensive for a pretty wheelie bin..
 
Aha! I made something very like this last year; blue barrel with a tap at the bottom. If you had a cut down wheelie bin and could put a tap at the bottom that would do the same job I should think (wanders off to look for the saw and a wheelie bin.....)
 
I'm another fully signed up member of the 'need to feed soaked hay but suffer from a bad back' brigade! I use a green water butt that I bought from B and Q for around £30 that is about the same size as a wheelie bin.

It takes about half to two thirds of a small bale of hay. It takes about 5 minutes to fill and about 15 minutes to drain once I open the tap, and once it has drained I can easily tip it upside down to get rid of the dregs of water. I then lift the water butt up off the hay and the hay is ready to feed.

An advantage of the relatively slow drain time is that it doesn't overwhelm my outside drain. I've been using these water butts for several years now and they last very well, unless I drop them! (Not as tough as a wheelie bin).
 
If you put the tub for soaking under something strong enough to take the weight a simple pulley system makes it really easy to lift wet nets out of the tub. Just started doing this myself as I also belong to the bad back brigade and have a metabolic fattie.I can't believe the price of things like haycubes and wheelyhay.I think the trouble with haycubes is that you need more than one so that the next batch can be soaking ready.
 
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