Bale weight and pros of chopping?

[Bossfarmer]

Hmmm. You should probably have cut it 5 hours earlier, in order to keep @M-J-G happy.

Rocket fuel stuff in the making. Most of mine this year has been similar, taking fields out of rotation as the grass has suddenly gone nuts, and all between 4 & 6 bales/ac stuff. For the record all chopped with a Fusion, 6 layers of wrap and damned heavy bales.

you should only need 6 layers on high dm stemmy bales, 4 should be enough on that kind of stuff

 

[som farmer]

went baling, with our brand new jd baler, this would have been mid 80's, missed the 'talk' when it arrived, so had a quick run through with om, don't really think he fully understood, any way, my 1st bale, needed a loader tractor on each side, to lift it, l think l got something wrong, ok after though.

 

[neilo]

you should only need 6 layers on high dm stemmy bales, 4 should be enough on that kind of stuff

In theory, but I only use about 100 bales a year, so the rest is either carried over or I reload it to sell. Keeps (or loads) like new with 6 layers on.

 

[ollie989898]

A Jcb would be ok

Trouble is, driving a JCB is a bit like driving a pink scooter about. Folk might wave and smile when they see you but secretly they are all laughing behind your back at the pub.

 

[capfits]

@Jerry if new to chopped bales have a wee think how you handle and feed them from stack.
They have a habit of splitting even when wrapped if using loader tines.
Why no baler manufacturer does not pull the knives of say last two rotations of bale to make them less likely to split I do not know.

 

[Bald n Grumpy]

@Jerry if new to chopped bales have a wee think how you handle and feed them from stack.
They have a habit of splitting even when wrapped if using loader tines.
Why no baler manufacturer does not pull the knives of say last two rotations of bale to make them less likely to split I do not know.

Depends totally on which baler you use.
Welger belt baler ,take the wrap of and carry out the field or spread round barriers on yard no problem. Wouldn't risk taking wrap of McHale roller bales until they are at the feeder and then end up leaving net under silage to be collected when feeders are empty.

 

[Boohoo]

@Jerry if new to chopped bales have a wee think how you handle and feed them from stack.
They have a habit of splitting even when wrapped if using loader tines.
Why no baler manufacturer does not pull the knives of say last two rotations of bale to make them less likely to split I do not know.

Fusion 3 plus can be set up to drop the knives automatically so that the outside of the bale isn't chopped.
20 odd years ago Vicon balers had a 90% warning so that you could manually drop the knives and not chop the outside. This also took a bit of pressure off the slip clutch.

 

[Henarar]

Fusion 3 plus can be set up to drop the knives automatically so that the outside of the bale isn't chopped.
20 odd years ago Vicon balers had a 90% warning so that you could manually drop the knives and not chop the outside. This also took a bit of pressure off the slip clutch.

New Holland 644 would leave the outside unchopped

 

[Mickeymatbro]

@Jerry if new to chopped bales have a wee think how you handle and feed them from stack.
They have a habit of splitting even when wrapped if using loader tines.
Why no baler manufacturer does not pull the knives of say last two rotations of bale to make them less likely to split I do not know.

Kuhn baler here and I can chop until bale 90% formed then knives come out to finish