Gatehouse Farm
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- Location
- Kent
Haycap
- Thread starter Gatehouse Farm
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Northeastfarmer
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- Location
- Cleveland
They look good...not sure how long they'd last when the wind gets up
TelesnaAg
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- Location
- Portland, Victoria - Australia
They use these lots in OZ...very common to stack squares 6 tall with a hay cap on.
Ant...
Ant...
- Location
- Ashbourne, Derbyshire
Been told today that they're £50 per sheet!
Danllan
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- Location
- Sir Gar / Carms
At that price you could get aluminium check sheeting, and that will last forever!
Nearly
Member
- Location
- North of York
4course
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- Location
- north yorks
think the guy selling them is near york, we looked at them a couple of years ago and thought they could be useful only problem is they only span 1 bale which at 6 high in our area with the wind we sometimes get is asking for trouble, plus you still get both ends weathered , but I can see a place as temporary i.e till xmas /jan but a plastic sheet is cheaper its just getting the day and time to put it on cos if you dont do it on stacking you can bet your life it will p... down before you get round to the job
- Location
- Boroughbridge, york
My cousin is the guy selling them. give him a call, He's a farmer himself
TelesnaAg
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- Location
- Portland, Victoria - Australia
Its for short term protection mainly used on export hay or if hay is cut pre harvest they will throw them on then do harvest then start sellling the hay out of the paddock latish summer...then anything not sold will be shedded and if no shedding..all the low quality stuff especially straw will get hay caps...
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Farmer Tut
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The Guy in Australia who invented the haycaps sold 300 in 2007 the first year he made them now he sells 20,000 annually. I store straw outside 12 months of the year under haycaps for bedding pigs, our rainfall is 27 inches per year and every inch of rain on a bale 75 litres of water so in a year i was getting over 2 tonnes of water through the top bale destroying the next one down too and also making the stack unstable. I value my 1200 X 90 bales at £20 each so i was losing £40 worth of straw from the longest stored stuff. When i saw the haycaps in Aus I had to have some. I firstly imported a 20 foot container for my own use selling a few spares to friends and neighbours and when i saw just how good they were I got back in touch with Phil in Australia to firstly import them and now manufacture them under licence in the UK. I now have customers in the UK, Ireland, France, Spain, Belgium and Germany and have yet to have a negative comment from someone who has bought them, ( dont worry i have plenty of negative ones from people who haven't.) They are a fantastic and safe product and I could introduce you to farmers in the windiest locations who have never lost one. In the Mid West USA they have had bales blow our of stacks in the hurricanes with the haycaps still attached. I may be biased because i sell them but whoever wants to come and see year old straw that has been outside and is still bone dry give me a call and i would be delighted to show you around.
www.haycap.co.uk
www.haycap.co.uk
4course
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- Location
- north yorks
unbelievable, or so I thought 2ton of water on a bale/year, so out with the calculator and sure enough 27inch =685 mm a1.20 mx2.5m bale ie 8x4 = 3sqm as 1mm of water/rain =1kg each mm = 3, kg x685 =2055 kg =2.05 tonne.
I am sure ive spoken to you at a couple of the shows in the last year or 2 but have had great difficulty convincing others here that this would be a good idea or at least worth a try, now armed with this info ( just shows what you can learn on here) am lying in wait for all to turn in this morning, we shall see
I am sure ive spoken to you at a couple of the shows in the last year or 2 but have had great difficulty convincing others here that this would be a good idea or at least worth a try, now armed with this info ( just shows what you can learn on here) am lying in wait for all to turn in this morning, we shall see
Farmer Tut
New Member
In answer to how long they will last the plastic manufacturer tells me they will guarantee the plastic for 10 years but they expect it to last 50 or 60 years, they are treated with a UV stabiliser so they wont go brittle, the only deterioration is slight fading of the colour over a number of years.
Nick Adams
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- Location
- Ashbourne, Derbyshire
I use heavy industrial belting cut to 8' lengths. Blew off once but wouldn't be a big deal to tie it on with bale string.
Nick Adams
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- Location
- Ashbourne, Derbyshire
Cost nothing!
- Location
- Romney Marsh
I think someone needs to try these and report back.
If @Farmer Tut sends me some, I will try them, photograph them over the year, and then report back. If they survive on a windy marsh, they will be good anywhere!
If @Farmer Tut sends me some, I will try them, photograph them over the year, and then report back. If they survive on a windy marsh, they will be good anywhere!
Nearly
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- Location
- North of York
We used to top the stack with a bale of rape straw a foot longer than the wheat straw. 
Then we'd a stack of rotten rape straw with band in when staff got lazy.
Now we've a different farm and a shed.
With the haycaps there's no risk of anyone falling off stack while sheeting.
Then we'd a stack of rotten rape straw with band in when staff got lazy.
Now we've a different farm and a shed.
With the haycaps there's no risk of anyone falling off stack while sheeting.
Farmer Tut
New Member
How do you stop water leaking between the 8 foot strips of belting Nick Adams? Wooly I have a lot of customers trying them all over Europe nobody has reported them blowing off and Nearly is correct they are very safe. I'm new to all this so I really appreciate the discussion and the feedback thank you Gentlemen
