davidroberts30
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- Location
- pembrokeshire
Wagon is generally half the price of bales
Will I Save Money......
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davidroberts30
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- Location
- pembrokeshire
200hp on a 50cube wagon
Seasonal averages are
3.5l a acre diesel for the wagon tractor
5.5acres a hour
Make sure its cut every (max) 7 weeks
You need to change the way you think about silage, I've turned jobs down as people pile the fert on and think trying a wagon will save them money,but in reality a 500hp harvester will be chewing on the rows
Quality not quantity
Seasonal averages are
3.5l a acre diesel for the wagon tractor
5.5acres a hour
Make sure its cut every (max) 7 weeks
You need to change the way you think about silage, I've turned jobs down as people pile the fert on and think trying a wagon will save them money,but in reality a 500hp harvester will be chewing on the rows
Quality not quantity
Devon James
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- Location
- Devon
We will price it per acre, will be pleased to have the chance of doing so. Work for all sorts of systems, intensive dairy to suckler cow guys so all grass types and quality. Out again tomorrow for a new farm.
Two high spec machines
Pottinger jumbo 6010.
Bossfarmer
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- Location
- between Perth and Inverness
so for 1 cut bulky silage the wagons a non starter?
- Location
- Galloway
Work fine just don't put it in 50 ft rows
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How do you make that out , we cut every type of grass and never have a problem .
multi power
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- Location
- pembrokeshire
How do you save all this fuel? There is still the same amount of grass to haul regardless of one wagon or however many trailers
- Location
- Galloway
You save fuel because wagon not so power hungry as chopper
- Location
- Ceredigion
You can get the whole job sit in the house you do nothing for that here
- Location
- Derbyshire
. . . and you haven't got a fleet of over powered tractors and trailers running round at high speed
- Location
- sw scotland
The main saving is on labour and machinery. Various reasons to save fuel too.
Longer chop, not a heavy SPFH to move around, the wagon will actually hold 10 tons of grass each load so fewer trips rather than two 10 ton trailers. If you are using 4 trailers then they spend a fair time running empty chasing a chopper whereas the wagon is straight into work. And no worries matching chopper and trailers.
- Location
- Ceredigion
Do the job proper .get one of these
multi power
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- Location
- pembrokeshire
Good point about trailer running empty, sorry I had thought you were saying the actual haulage bit would use less fuel
We tried wagon on one cut beef silage last year.. had 2 big tractors on the clamp, one with a compactor on. They just could not consolidate it at all. The bloody stuff heated up in the clamp at feed out time. Never again.
Blunt knives and too much wilt can cause that , it's not the wagons fault it wasn't operated properly , we cut 2300 avers a year and we never have pits heating .
I must admit there was two wagons and it was coming in fast. Had been cut 24-36 hours but was very dry and springy .
Before always had it done with a spfh with no problems. Would probably be better off baled.
Before anyone says take it younger , it is ideal for our incalf suckler cows.. they do very well on it , and if not limited will become too fit...
Before always had it done with a spfh with no problems. Would probably be better off baled.
Before anyone says take it younger , it is ideal for our incalf suckler cows.. they do very well on it , and if not limited will become too fit...
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I was watching a sp starting off in a field with 4 trailers , the first trailer was under the spout and the other three drove around after him idle , got the full lap around to the gate in the first trailer , so the harvest and 4 tractors drove around that first sward , I was in the next field to them and I went around at the same speed picking the same size sward on my own and I brought more than two of their loads in one . So my one engine versus their five men and machines , you do t need a calculator to figure out which is more cost effective.
No tractors can handle two wagons drawing in , that's where you need a good loader.
