Depends almost entirely how many bales you get.How much would it roughly cost to get 16 acre round bailed and wrapped.
See aboveWhat’s the rate per bale?
You will be very lucky to get any decent wrap now for less than £60 roll.I think I paid £55 a roll for wrap, and what do we recon to a roll? 25 to 30 bales a roll? So we are talking £2 just in wrap, next question who is going to mow and row up? I have noticed contractors don't want to bale behind a haybob row anymore.
contractor here said he paid £50 a roll for wrap, but he had to buy a pallet to get that rate (and pay for it there and then)
The UK's full of contractors that will do it for nothing (although if you ask a contractor, its always the other guy) the price of something like round baling and wrapping is often set by farmers who have their own and do a bit for their neighbours. I'm not sure whether this makes their own stuff cheaper or they just want something to do but its very common.Surely that's just to bale? Plastic here costs me $5/ bale alone.
True. Trouble is lots do it at mates rates because they do things for each other and then somehow that becomes the price a contractor is expected to work for.The UK's full of contractors that will do it for nothing (although if you ask a contractor, its always the other guy) the price of something like round baling and wrapping is often set by farmers who have their own and do a bit for their neighbours. I'm not sure whether this makes their own stuff cheaper or they just want something to do but its very common.
At six layers you will only get 21/22 bales a rollYou will be very lucky to get any decent wrap now for less than £60 roll.
And you will only get 25/28 bales a roll.
Contractors will bale behind a haybob but you will be charged a lot more per bale for doing so and the bales will not be as heavy/solid as behind a rake regardless of what type of baler you have.
We bought a used mchale and there are different gears fitted on the stretch rollers. First try out it did forty bales at four layers but the wrap is very thin. Put six layers and it does 28. Nobody I know has these gears on theirs but when you measure the stretch,it's 70% which is what the film manufacturers say. Very oddAt six layers you will only get 21/22 bales a roll
Next time you open a bale cut a square out of the plastic and count the layers we have never had that number of bales out of a roll of plasticWe bought a used mchale and there are different gears fitted on the stretch rollers. First try out it did forty bales at four layers but the wrap is very thin. Put six layers and it does 28. Nobody I know has these gears on theirs but when you measure the stretch,it's 70% which is what the film manufacturers say. Very odd