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<blockquote data-quote="DrDunc" data-source="post: 3491458" data-attributes="member: 615"><p>I don't have a clamp.</p><p></p><p>It's around £2000 for the plastic.</p><p></p><p>A few years ago I compared the diesel used per acre of grass silage with my next door neighbour who uses a self propelled contractor.</p><p></p><p>On 100 acres of my late June/early July single cut compared to his three cut system for dairy cows, he was using/supplying over 14 litres more of diesel per acre.</p><p></p><p>That's near half the cost of my bale plastic.</p><p></p><p>I own all my own machinery, so I don't have money going out to a contractor ( it's around £4.75 a bale plus plastic here for a contractor to bale and wrap).</p><p></p><p>If I had a clamp, I'd need to pay a contractor to fill the clamp. That would cost me over £5000 a year every year (though that's still cheaper than a contractor baling/wrapping 1400 bales, raked and with the bale plastic would be over £9500).....</p><p></p><p> (That's assuming I still cut it myself, and I pull one of the trailer myself).</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>So long story short......</p><p></p><p>By my reckoning I'm about £4000 a year better off doing it myself than I would be after I'd finished paying off a £30k plugs loan to build a clamp on a tenanted farm.</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>Edit apologies for the rather long winded off topic!</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="DrDunc, post: 3491458, member: 615"] I don't have a clamp. It's around £2000 for the plastic. A few years ago I compared the diesel used per acre of grass silage with my next door neighbour who uses a self propelled contractor. On 100 acres of my late June/early July single cut compared to his three cut system for dairy cows, he was using/supplying over 14 litres more of diesel per acre. That's near half the cost of my bale plastic. I own all my own machinery, so I don't have money going out to a contractor ( it's around £4.75 a bale plus plastic here for a contractor to bale and wrap). If I had a clamp, I'd need to pay a contractor to fill the clamp. That would cost me over £5000 a year every year (though that's still cheaper than a contractor baling/wrapping 1400 bales, raked and with the bale plastic would be over £9500)..... (That's assuming I still cut it myself, and I pull one of the trailer myself). So long story short...... By my reckoning I'm about £4000 a year better off doing it myself than I would be after I'd finished paying off a £30k plugs loan to build a clamp on a tenanted farm. Edit apologies for the rather long winded off topic! [/QUOTE]
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