Trailed forage harvesters

hillman

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Location
Wicklow Ireland
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800 here , now only second cut , mow and rake for contractor for first , labour is main issue sadly
 

fermerboy

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Location
Banffshire
I can think of at least 6 trailed JF choppers around here. More folk going to SPFH contractor though, due to labour shortages.
My labour force (father and father in law) are getting older and I expect to go the contractor route in the future.
We can currently do the job cheaper than contractor charges, but that goes all wrong as soon as you have to hire staff or staff and tractors.
We can nail 30ac of heavy one cut silage in a average day with a JF 900 and a TM 140 not much bother, mate has a 1050 on a 6930 and he has bigger trailers and more staff so can manage longer days, he
can do 40-50ac/day.
For a lot of folk that's all the pit can cope with too.

Here's mine on a fairly poor crop due to the dry summer


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Ali_Maxxum

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Location
Chepstow, Wales
Contractor not too far from here had a brand spanker trailed this season, lovely looking bit of kit, looks after the little farms I think.

I've been involved in many different ways of doing silage and I still believe spfh is the way to do it if you want to clear acres in a day, obviously providing your pit man is good and trailer monkeys also.

I don't think getting a contractor is the problem, its the weather. Another reason why contractors working together is far better than against each other!
 

Fraserb

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Location
Scottish Borders
What's your problem.
Problem is more than likely the fact everyone else discusses the benefits of different systems and machines, you immediately come in and have a go at anyone who doesn't do it your way using your choice of machinery.
I have no issues with forage wagons but they wouldn't suit us at all, neither would bales or trailed harvester, so we use a spfh and I don't slag off any one else's choice of system.
 

james ds

Member
Location
leinster
when you say wagon is that one of those pottingers that has a pickup reel on the front of it? i hear these are stupidly expensive?
Yes that's the one , but they are so efficient that they pay for themselves , when you add up the running cost of two tractors drawing in including fuel and wages what you save will pay for any new wagon.
 

james ds

Member
Location
leinster
Problem is more than likely the fact everyone else discusses the benefits of different systems and machines, you immediately come in and have a go at anyone who doesn't do it your way using your choice of machinery.
I have no issues with forage wagons but they wouldn't suit us at all, neither would bales or trailed harvester, so we use a spfh and I don't slag off any one else's choice of system.
I'm not running down any system , but I have owned every system so I know the running cost and benifits and disadvantages of every system, that is why wagons are growing in popularity and trailed harvesters are nearly a thing of the past. The wagon system is the most fuel effecient and has the lowest running cost of all systems and needs the least labour which is a very important point these days.
 

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