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The Easiest Way to Spread Straw on the Farm

The Easiest Way to Spread Straw on the Farm
May 12, 2025
By Ryan Ridley
Assistant Editor, North American Content, Farms.com

Tubeline’s New Bale Gator Is A Game-Changer for Livestock Producers

Tubeline Manufacturing has launched a farm innovation called the Bale Gator—a new series of dry straw choppers designed to serve livestock producers. 

The Bale Gator, featured in models like the 348, is available in three lengths: 4, 6, and 8 feet. This range allows farmers to choose the size that best fits their operation. 

Farms.com met with Paul Latam, regional us sales manager with Tubeline, for an up-close look at this innovation. 

He explained that the key feature of the Bale Gator is its gravity-fed design. 

This means it works without needing complex machinery, making it easier to use and maintain. 

The straw chopper is built to blow straw into barns. Its narrow and low-profile design allows for full mobility in narrow alleyways. 

Tubeline Manufacturing has prioritized simplicity, durability, and effectiveness with this product. 

The Bale Gator is equipped with a 32-inch fan, allowing you to blow a variety of bedding products to those hard-to-reach places. It comes with a side discharge with a reversing fan to provide efficient bedding of calf hutches, cow stalls, and chicken barns. 

It’s also controlled remotely with no wiring harness. 

This equipment can fit on any skid steer, telehandler, or front-end loader.  

Take a closer look at the Bale Gator in the video below. 




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