Concrete panel silage clamps

[Headless chicken]

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The existing clamp I use has earth banks with a 1500 panel slide into webbing but for me there is too much waste. What put’s you off shuttering price I’m guessing? Just starting too look into a new clamp here aswell so interesting reading, I was think of doing a long narrow one open at both ends so you can put multi cuts in, anyone done this?

sadly we can’t have it open both ends due to the site. But also I really really hate pulling a sheet off the pit. The aim is eventually to have 5 individual clamps. All concreted. We’ve zero waste on our earth banks but would benefit from concrete floor.

had a price on shuttered......if I was forced to I would seriously have to consider how to move forward. Be the best part of 150k to do what we need to do.

 

[vantage]

thankyou it is as I suspected this is going to cost me a sh!t tonne!

might try and find a way to persuade nrw to let me keep the earth banks and just concrete the floor.

The cost of doing anything on farm is now at an industrial rate due to NRW regs. Your last post confirmed this. I have one pit of 250’ x 45’, which we only use half of currently. It has an earth bank one side , currently water is peeing out of the bank, I think having moveable walls like @eulb has may be necessary to separate water from effluent.
You’re doing well to still have a earth floor! I think HRA is worthy of consideration if the only traffic is rubber.

 

[Will Blackburn]

That sounds about exactly what I was thinking 45 by 120-160 depending on capacity. Not had chance to work it out yet what sort of volume do you get in it?

I think we’re at about 3000 tonne, plenty for 320 cows, and some carry over. We load maize last, so it usually works out they have last years maize with lush autumn grass.