Grain pads - alternatives to concrete?

[teslacoils]

We don't get haulage allocated until grain is cut. I think the potential for crossness is too high, and the savings too small. Also, central store pretty much Hoover's up all the local hauliers anyway.

 

[Clive]

The only people I know who truly make this work are a local big estate with their own big central grain store and brilliant tracks everywhere, they employ a company with lorries I think.
And PX farms I think manage it with their own lorries.
you need some serious fire power to not have put grain on the deck.

even when we ran 13 trucks of our own it was hard to make work because the trucks could always earn more on commercial haulage and you couldn’t drop customers at a moment’s notice to go support a combine

 

[Humble Village Farmer]

The only people I know who truly make this work are a local big estate with their own big central grain store and brilliant tracks everywhere, they employ a company with lorries I think.
And PX farms I think manage it with their own lorries.
you need some serious fire power to not have put grain on the deck.

Don't you have a well regarded owner driver in the locality?

 

[ajd132]

Don't you have a well regarded owner driver in the locality?

We use a local firm, which is made of quite a few owner drivers.
I doubt 4 lorries let alone one would keep up with us when we are going full tilt

 

[John]

Could you make a pad out of the temporary road pads you see at shows?

 

[ollie989898]

We do something similar but it’s pretty hard to get hauliers to come at the drop of a hat. You need a buffer. Haulage has been pretty easy this year though compared to a couple years ago.

No no, totally agree you need a buffer, tip it somewhere and then load it into them when they return.