Grassman247
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No health and safety problems with this solution
No health and safety problems with this solution
Just a affording it problem.
We have a cut face with tire rings covering it the whole way back and the wind has lifted the sheet at the face. Some people here have pit mats with the holes in them and have to tie them together or weight them with concrete blocks as they will blow off!!
Prevents the nutrients being leached awayYou cover dung heaps? What are the benefits?
Had a lad in his 20's local to here killed by a round bale just last week.
So if taking the sheet & tyres off is risky, isn't it also a risk putting them on?
Perhaps the older generation who covered silage with a layer of lime, were ahead of the times?
I've done exactly that , don't miss going up on the pit in the dark and driving rain when the wind has blown the green sheets down over the face yet .Bales! Stack and remove with tele handler from the comfort of the cab. Last bale put up and you are finished, no rolling, lugging sheets and tyres or begging for help to do what now sounds like a very hazardous job.
If someone falls and is badly hurt or worse killed, a million pound claim and jail will make bales seem cheap.
Not something I would risk nowadays, in the future I can see pits being banned.
Well not loosing nutrients for a start .Since tipping some up outside back in early November we've had a ft of rain and not really in a high rainfall area .You cover dung heaps? What are the benefits?
Just a word of warning, I was unwrapping a chopped bale last week and it split in half. The half that fell down nearly trapped my leg.I've done exactly that , don't miss going up on the pit in the dark and driving rain when the wind has blown the green sheets down over the face yet .