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Silage Cutter

a machine for cutting up straw and green crop materials being ensiled in the preparation of feeds for livestock. Silage cutters may be motor-driven, horse-driven, or manually operated. Only motor-driven cutters are used in the USSR. They are driven by an electric motor or a power take-off shaft from a tractor engine.

A silage cutter consists of a cutting mechanism, a feed conveyor, and a drive mechanism; the cutting mechanism may be of the disk or drum type. Both types work on the principle of a scissors: rotating knives attached to a drum or disk serve as one of the blades, and the cutting edge of a fixed shear plate serve as the second blade. Drum-type silage cutters are usually stationary; disk-type cutters have wheels and are equipped with blower conveyors. Both types are used in the USSR. Depending on the type of material being chopped and the purpose for which it is intended, the cutter may be positioned next to silos when green crop materials are being ensiled, in feed shops when livestock feeds are being prepared, and at locations where chopped straw is being prepared for livestock feed or bedding.

Silage cutters of similar design are used abroad.

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Seven died with farming causing a far greater death toll, especially at the height of the breeding season when silage cutters mow down long grass where leverets are born, Dr Neil Reid of Queen's University said: "Hares may mistake the tall grass of silage fields as a good spot for lying-up and giving birth.

Hares threat from farms; WILDLIFE by The Mirror (London, England)

But when RSPCA Inspector Ian Smith visited the farm last August he found one dog tied to a silage cutter with no kennel.

Shepherd starved dogs; Border collies were found sleeping in their ... by The Journal (Newcastle, England)

Magistrates were told how following a complaint to the RSPCA, Inspector Ian Smith visited Scarlett Farm in July last year and found one collie tethered to a silage cutter, with no kennel.

Border collies were left to starve; Shepherd faces animal ban after ... by The Journal (Newcastle, England)