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Never seen anyone use a tyre press on straw baler before!
I hope someone might be able to offer up an explanation. It's not the first time I've seen a press being used on straw on these fields, this was from a few years back. The rows of straw left behind one of the combines were quite high, it was almost as if it had been rowed up.
 

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Steevo

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I hope someone might be able to offer up an explanation. It's not the first time I've seen a press being used on straw on these fields, this was from a few years back. The rows of straw left behind one of the combines were quite high, it was almost as if it had been rowed up.

I understand the purpose of a swath roller, but never seen it done with what is traditionally a soil press implement. Perfectly logical way to do it and dual purpose.
 

Steevo

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Unfortunately I don't know the answer to that one. Hopefully the chap who was baling in the Massey may be able to answer that. He suggested he might sign up to the forum.

90cm high bales are much easier to pick up than the 70cm version in my experience and hold together better so it’s rare to find a 70cm baler locally.

Do you prefer the shorter version for your purposes?
 
90cm high bales are much easier to pick up than the 70cm version in my experience and hold together better so it’s rare to find a 70cm baler locally.

Do you prefer the shorter version for your purposes?
We take it as it comes. The last time I helped collecting the straw form these fields we had baled it ourselves with a Lely Welger RP245 round baler on the back of the McCormick MC115. Watching these two in action was a revelation, just how quickly they get through the job. We loaded in the field with a double spike, taking the rollers of the squeezy. Unloaded at the other end with a Gehl Skid steer and the normal spike we would use for round bales. We found that going 4 high on the trailer was a bit much for the skid steer as it pinged a couple of stings, not quite having the reach, but three high it was fine. Stacked 5 high on the barn with it. These bales fit nicely in the straw chopper and you can cut the strings off without the end of the bale dropping off. Any longer and I guess we'd be picking it up off the floor. (PS, I'm only part time farm working and so have no idea about different presses, etc, that was my ignorance on the topic :)
 
Trip up the A1 few weeks ago…..Just off the M11 south of Cambridge, Diesel 135p per Ltire.
Washington services just south of Newcastle…road side sign read 155p per litre.
It's always very expensive at Washington services, there's a sainsburys a few miles further up at the end of the team valley be about 20p a litre cheaper
 

Gator

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Lancashire
I think there might be an error in the handbook, but it's nothing major. It's the position of the lever for setting for running round the headlands. I found it worked the opposite way to what it shows in the handbook. C-B-A instead of A-B-C. If you get it wrong, you can either get off and change it, or simply go around the field in the opposite direction.
It's the same on my 4 roto
 

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