2019 Silage Season

[pappuller]

If you do get one make sure you religiously clean the knife bank after use,damp grass left there rusts the knife holder pins,I’ve always cleaned and oiled mine after use,but someone I know didn’t and it gets expensive,well not as expensive as a forager.

Yes been told to keep knives cleaned out after each cut.

 

[pappuller]

I’ll second pottinger relief drive a friends really nice machine to use and straight forward and reliable have run krone alongside to do along drag and actually think krone made a better job of processing grass but the machine isn’t as well built. Good to have someone else to team up with to complete long drags.

Had a pottinger on demo for a day and I couldn't fault it, decision is whether go for autosharp system, we've had potty and strautman wagons working here in the last 6 wks and got to say the potty seemed to have a more consistent short chop, with the autosharp he just seemed to keep the knives tip top all day.

 

[Moorlands]

Had a pottinger on demo for a day and I couldn't fault it, decision is whether go for autosharp system, we've had potty and strautman wagons working here in the last 6 wks and got to say the potty seemed to have a more consistent short chop, with the autosharp he just seemed to keep the knives tip top all day.

If you don’t go auto sharp get double sided blades then you can flip half way through day. Got to agree auto sharp is the business but a 4.5k extra! But then having to set on in a morning and take ever blade out and polish them up with flap disc on grinder when all you want to do is get going and get grass gathered in is a real pain!

 

[pappuller]

If you don’t go auto sharp get double sided blades then you can flip half way through day. Got to agree auto sharp is the business but a 4.5k extra! But then having to set on in a morning and take ever blade out and polish them up with flap disc on grinder when all you want to do is get going and get grass gathered in is a real pain!

That was my thoughts but it's the time factor, you can soon lose an hour or more a day sharpening blades.

 

[pappuller]

If you don’t go auto sharp get double sided blades then you can flip half way through day. Got to agree auto sharp is the business but a 4.5k extra! But then having to set on in a morning and take ever blade out and polish them up with flap disc on grinder when all you want to do is get going and get grass gathered in is a real pain!

We have the option of a demo wagon with autosharp which takes a little of the sting out of it ?

 

[The Agrarian]

Is that a enough power?

Remapped to over 200, yes it's enough. Nothing surplus, but then I think you could put the wagon parts under too much stress if you had too much surplus power.

 

[yin ewe]

2019 silage season over, 107 bales off 25 acres.

 

[The Agrarian]

That's the lane blocked. There'll neither be in nor out until you get the brutes used. Could be a long autumn.

 

[yin ewe]

That's the lane blocked. There'll neither be in nor out until you get the brutes used. Could be a long autumn.

Won't be used until next summer so might need Moores to price me an overpass!!!

 

[Slowcow]

Last day of 2019 season here, not much red clover but Lucerne has done better, cracking day for it and nort broke

 

[vantage]

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Last day of 2019 season here, not much red clover but Lucerne has done better, cracking day for it and nort broke

Reverse drive,NH ?

 

[Slowcow]

Its old enough to have have Ford written on the bonnet but yes reverse drive 8770.
If I'm honest we did have a puncture but I don't count that as a breakdown

 

[davedb]

We need more pictures of that setup

Its old enough to have have Ford written on the bonnet but yes reverse drive 8770.
If I'm honest we did have a puncture but I don't count that as a breakdown

 

[4course]

3rd cut on some 4th cut on a bit and second cut following hay crop on the rest all been cut yesterday ,hoping for a few drish days as they are getting shorter

 

[yin ewe]

Today's homework was count the number of bales. Apparently he got 62 off 14 acres. 4th cut only got 2000g of slurry/acre. Definitely silage season 2019 finished.

 

[Skintagain]

Nearly done here. Just 8 acre of silage to bale today and then some hay/Haylage/muck/whatever to bale mid week that we have had given to clear. Finished new yard yesterday which will stack these last few on. I will be glad to see back of it this year.

 

[The Agrarian]

Fourth cut underway. Hallelujah.

 

[ploughman1963]

Dropping some lovely organic red clover - was undersown with spring barley. Going to be busy this week - 4 jobs booked in already

 

[Skintagain]

Last weeks efforts all baled and wrapped now. Bit of hay this week and the tackle can be put away

 

[yin ewe]

Last weeks efforts all baled and wrapped now. Bit of hay this week and the tackle can be put away

Wow you're game trying hay at this time of year? Too much dew in the morning to even think about hay round here.