Farmer Roy's Random Thoughts - I never said it was easy.

[glasshouse]

What like this one based on a m series vermeer

Where did u find that?

 

[CornishTone]

If we do use "field" then it seems to be always / only in an arable context, never with grazing or livestock

The only term used around here is paddock. Back home a paddock is a small fenced area, usually for horses/ponies. Everything else is a field. It took me a looooong time to get out of the habit of not sneering at the word paddock due to its equinesque connotations!

Nations separated by a common language and all that!

 

[cows sh#t me to tears]

Where did u find that?

Was posted on haytalk forum in the states. Bloke had it custom built for doing 50 000 ac of corn stalks or something like that.
https://www.haytalk.com/forums/topic/91478-biggest-round-baler-in-the-world-rolls-a-5

 

[glasshouse]

Was posted on haytalk forum in the states. Bloke had it custom built for doing 50 000 ac of corn stalks or something like that.
https://www.haytalk.com/forums/topic/91478-biggest-round-baler-in-the-world-rolls-a-5

I have been thinking about an 8x8 round baler for a while, this monster might do if its variable chamber

 

[cows sh#t me to tears]

It's a belt baler . So yes it would be variable chamber. Pretty sure the cost of it is equivalent to a 2370 uhd , so think $330 000au . But then theres the net issue. You would want to import a container of net with it.....and that certainly wouldnt be cheap either.

 

[glasshouse]

It's a belt baler . So yes it would be variable chamber. Pretty sure the cost of it is equivalent to a 2370 uhd , so think $330 000au . But then theres the net issue. You would want to import a container of net with it.....and that certainly wouldnt be cheap either.

The first round baler we had was the second one in Scotland in 1975
It was an international 241
5ft wide and 6ft diameter. Claas had one the same size too.

They were great bales to work with, just dont try and put them on a lorry
I think there is a case for a bigger round baler, 6x6 or 7x7 for uk roads would be big enough
Two 4ft nets would net the 9ft bale

 

[cows sh#t me to tears]

The first round baler we had was the second one in Scotland in 1975
It was an international 241
5ft wide and 6ft diameter. Claas had one the same size too.

They were great bales to work with, just dont try and put them on a lorry
I think there is a case for a bigger round baler, 6x6 or 7x7 for uk roads would be big enough
Two 4ft nets would net the 9ft bale

Two 4 foot rolls might net a 9foot bale. But if your baling straw or stover like them, what happens when you pick it up......it falls in half.....I've had this happen even in a 4 foot bales of silage with 2 narrow windrows of short heavy clover.....and that's with a roll that covers the chamber. Hence why there using a 9 foot roll.

 

[Blaithin]

Fields are all harvestable things here. Field of wheat. Hay field. Corn field.

Livestock graze in pastures.

Like CornishTone, paddocks are small horsey pens here and even then it’s a rarely used word. Except maybe in the horse world.

 

[cows sh#t me to tears]

There paddocks here. Always have been.http://www.thelongpaddock.com.au/
And a farm is often just called a block.

 

[cows sh#t me to tears]

The only term used around here is paddock. Back home a paddock is a small fenced area, usually for horses/ponies. Everything else is a field. It took me a looooong time to get out of the habit of not sneering at the word paddock due to its equinesque connotations!

Nations separated by a common language and all that!

And until you stop sneering your citizenship application will continue to be denied we have standards you know

 

[glasshouse]

Two 4 foot rolls might net a 9foot bale. But if your baling straw or stover like them, what happens when you pick it up......it falls in half.....I've had this happen even in a 4 foot bales of silage with 2 narrow windrows of short heavy clover.....and that's with a roll that covers the chamber. Hence why there using a 9 foot roll.

I would have thought that maize stalks wont hang together very well in a bale?

 

[Jim bean]

can't be very high ,they let me in.

 

[holwellcourtfarm]

can't be very high ,they let me in.

Ah, but were you from Cornwall?

 

[Jim bean]

Good point.

 

[cows sh#t me to tears]

can't be very high ,they let me in.

Cracks ,slip....

 

[CornishTone]

Ah, but were you from Cornwall?

Oh do change the f**king record!

 

[Farmer Roy]

It was only after my introduction to the cotton industry many years ago that I starting calling arable paddocks fields.
I suppose that is because in all our irrigation & a lot of our dryland Cropping country, there are no fences, so no paddocks, just markers or roads to seperate different fields . . .
Seems silly to call them paddocks when there may not even be boundary fences between the farms, let alone internal fencing . . .

 

[cows sh#t me to tears]

Careful Roy we might have to rescind your citizenship leaving you stateless like Neil Prekesh ( I would have thought they'd be blocks up there too

 

[Yale]

Neighbours wandering teaser ram in a different sheep group today.

Bloody nuisance.

Free range sheep.

 

[Farmer Roy]

Yeah - fields really seem to be a cotton thing
"Blocks" is probably one of the main terms used, to be honest