Small chaff cutters

[JillA]

Isn't it time someone developed a small chaff cutter?
This is sparked by the thread on old ponies with very few teeth, of which I have one, and my recent revised attempts at cutting chaff with a garden shredder (doesn't cut it anywhere near short enough). I wouldn't have thought it was rocket science - a garden shredder type thing with sharper and more blades, using gravity to feed it through? Has anyone come up with one, or adapted a garden shredder so that given a supply of fantastic hay like I have this year, I can chop enough for the old girl? She is costing enough in Speedybeet and grass nuts, and is fussy about chop so I really don't want to spend more on chop she chucks out.

 

[Polos Mum]

Interested to see responses to this, my boy didn't eat the garden shreader cut hay last winter - hadn't considered it was still too long.

 

[horsesforcourses]

I seem to remember seeing a thread about people using garden shredders for chopping their hay up. Hope this helps...

 

[JillA]

Garden shredders don't cut it short enough as I said in the original post

 

[MotherOfChickens]

how short do they cut it, out of interest? (still regretting dad leaving an ancient chaff cutter at a farm decades ago, mind you-it wasn't exactly light!)

 

[JillA]

It is mixed but most pieces are around 4" long. It gets clogged as well and constantly needs openng up to free the hay wrapped around the centre. Surely it doesn't need a huge cast iron wheel to cut hay into chop less than 1/2"???