BvL Silage Cutting Equipment

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BvL offers the ideal mining equipment for your business. Find out more about our mining equipment, ranging from grappling buckets, cutting grapples to silage block cutters.

With our cutting jaws you can cut large volumes and produce smooth silo walls. BvL cutting jaws are suitable for front and rear attachment.

Do you want to have the highest quality strength and a machine that will fulfill your desire? BvL silage block cutters adapt to your needs and conditions on your farm.


The block silage cutter is a type of silage digging equipment (silage digging equipment). Silage cutters play an important role in the harvesting and production of forage for farm animals. Various machines with attachments are used to dig silage out of storage facilities – feeders, different types of loaders with rotary cutters, cutting buckets, buckets with grapples. The best results are achieved with specialized equipment – the BvL block silage cutter BvL.

Why do you need silage cutting equipment

The classical silage harvesting technology implies putting the prepared green mass into storages (silage pits, trenches) with tamping and subsequent covering with film. Removal of air, elimination of air channels and sealing with film allow to create anaerobic conditions, prevents aerobic microflora reproduction, silage spoilage and reduction of its quality. After completion of the anaerobic fermentation process, the silage can be used for feeding.

Silage digging is carried out gradually, taking into account the feed demand for the next few days, in vertical layers. Since the silage mass in the storage facility is a monolith of rather high density, its layer-by-layer removal requires special equipment – a silage cutter or a cutting bucket. It is important not to disturb the integrity of the monolith, which remains in the storage facility, and to ensure an even and tight cut:

  • If the silage is “bitten out”, an uneven, jagged cut with depressions is formed at the moment of digging, and these are quickly tightened. At the same time, the compressed, pressed-in silage straightens out and works like a sponge, which absorbs air when it regains its shape. In other words, the oxygen removed during the tamping process is reintroduced into the mass that remains in the silo;
  • If the excavation equipment loosens the monolith, air passages are formed in it, which also contributes to oxygenation of the mass.

In both cases, conditions are created for secondary fermentation, heating of the silage and rapid loss of quality. The BvL block silage cutter has been designed with careful silage removal in mind and prevents silage spoilage.

Design and principle of operation of the BvL Block Silage Cutter

The BvL V-LOAD Cutter is a tractor or loader attachment with front linkage or rear linkage with hydraulic elevator. The block silage cutter consists of:

  • load-bearing frame with attachment;
  • lifting cylinder (feed cylinder), which is mounted in the center of the support frame, and a system that automatically regulates the lowering of the;
  • cutting frame (arc) with closed drive, drive cable system and blade system;
  • 11-tined pick-up forks;
  • block pushing systems (Megastar and Master lines).

Principle of operation

  1. The machine with attachments is driven from the end to the storage area, the silage cutter is set in the desired position (hydraulic elevator provides vertical movement, if necessary, lateral displacement is performed).
  2. The tines of the fork enter the silage monolith at the right height to separate the layer of the specified thickness.
  3. The U-shaped cutting frame is slowly lowered, the knife system moves left to right, ensuring a vertical cut around the entire perimeter of the frame.
  4. When the cutting system is lowered to the fork level, the movement of the frame and knives stops, the elevator mechanism is activated, the cut block is removed from the storage, moved to the desired location and unloaded on the ground, on the trailer, loaded into the feed mixer hopper.

In addition, the BvL block silage cutter can be equipped with a silage carriage – an upper distributor with two distributor combs, which is mounted on the cutting arc. The optional equipment allows the silage cutter to be used as a feeder, for right or left handed distribution.

Types of BvL block silage cutters

BvL offers 3 lines of V-LOAD CUTTER block silage cutters: Topstar, Megastar and Master, which differ in size and cutting system:

  • Topstar is a system of 6 active double knives, which are actuated simultaneously by a single hydraulic cylinder;
  • Megastar and Master – the split cross blade is equipped with two counter front blades. The offset operation of the blades eliminates transverse forces, ensuring stable operation even under heavy loads, easy and smooth cutting.

Each line includes several models that differ in total silage height, blocks and maximum excavation height.

Max. capacity, m3 Total width/block width, m Depth of total/blocks, m Height of total/blocks, m Max. excavation height, m
Topstar 1.65-2.95 2.04/1.85 1.25/0.8 1.92-2.8/

1.1-1.95

1.6-2.45
Megastar 1.65-2.95 2.16/1.85 1.25/0.8 1.92-2.8/

1.1-1.95

1.6-2.45
Master 2.5-3.6 2.16/1.85 1.52/1.05 2.25-2.8/1.3-1.85 1.8-2.35

Advantages of BvL block silage cutters

Every BvL V-LOAD CUTTER has many advantages:

  • The cutting arc and blade system are made of wear-resistant structural steel, extremely durable, easy to maintain;
  • The narrow arc ensures a thin cut with minimal loss of forage mass and preservation of structure;
  • as a result of the block silage cutter operation, a closed cut of perfect quality is created, with a dense smooth surface, the integrity of the monolith is not disturbed, secondary heating of silage in storage due to aeration is excluded;
  • fork tooth support bushings ensure their stable position;
  • The centrally located lifting cylinder distributes the force on the cutting frame drive cables evenly and ensures smooth, tilt-free movement.

FarmyLand LLC offers to buy block silage cutters on favorable conditions. Professional consultations, assistance in selecting a model with suitable characteristics are provided.

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