What makes that then ?
Sounds like you need to have a word with the baler operator
Sounds like you need to have a word with the baler operator
The knives need to be kept sharp, just like in a forage wagon. I'm well impressed with the bales out of mine. Chopped to 3 inches, they'll disintegrate with a gentle shake of the loader, but still be tight enough to be placed into a ring (or in my case the straw blower).
Bales properly made will also have bugger all air in them, improving quality and all but eliminating spoilage.
Or is 3 inches too long for a tub mixer to cope with?
StrautmannWhat makes that then ?
I forgot, the pallets of plastic and netwrap I used to buy every year and then burn were free.Then 20k a year to pay somebody to fill it
Was doing the costings with a neighbour between contract self propelled and contract baling just last week. On 150 acres baling worked out just shy of £2k a year less expensive than the pit (which he already has). He's planning buying a wrapper for further saving, and which will also create revenue by contracting with it.
But you can have 150 acres pitted and covered in 2 days. Takes people around here half the summer to bale and wrap that amount. Plus in winter it's far nicer jumping on tractor with shear grab than handling wet smelly plastic. We do both and i know which i prefer.Was doing the costings with a neighbour between contract self propelled and contract baling just last week. On 150 acres baling worked out just shy of £2k a year less expensive than the pit (which he already has). He's planning buying a wrapper for further saving, and which will also create revenue by contracting with it.
With a modern chopper baler pickup up tedded and raked grass, the stuff in them is near the same as a forage wagon.
But aye the powers that be could easily bugger all that up in the future if they start buzzing about the plastic
Yeah, it's 150 organic acres, so it can be done in a day
) and pays for a lot of boxes of nitrile gloves for your hands Does your man have tractors? Why not trailed forager and pickup straight out of mower swaths saves huge amount on tedding raking. We already have trailers for grain carting though. clamp silage doesn't have to be expensive it's just the gangs with all new shiny machinery that makes it expensiveYeah, it's 150 organic acres, so it can be done in a day
Depends whether you're happy watching the contractor with all his expensive machinery for a day, or whether you'd rather have that money in your own pocket for doing a few days work...
That money buys things that make you more money (or reduces your loss if you're organic
Each to their own, but chopped bales out of a modern baler with sharp knives just fall apart in a tub mixer, and unless the pressure has been backed off to increase the bale count, they're brick hard with no air to cause spoilage.
Our mex 6 will do 60-70 acre a day
