How heavy is a quadrant bale of hay?

[neilo]

To dry. You over baked your pie .no other explanation for that a
tight bale being underweight .to dry is as big a crime as the other way . But take your medicine like a man and learn from it .

Shall I stick a hose pipe on them? How wet would you like them?

 

[Derrick Hughes]

If they were 8 foot they would be 340 kg , sounds ok to me , in fact @neilo can drop them off if he wants to shift the lot.

The minimum weigh for a tightly baled 8ft is 360 kg 400kg being the norm less than that they are ether baled slack or dry as old crusts .now stop your nonsense

 

[Derrick Hughes]

Shall I stick a hose pipe on them? How wet would you like them?

Will that put back the feed value your cooked out of it

 

[bobk]

The minimum weigh for a tightly baled 8ft is 360 kg 400kg being the norm less than that they are ether baled slack or dry as old crusts .now stop your nonsense

Maybe you should go and see it ..... in your new truck

 

[7610 super q]

I have to say.....I've never heard of hay being too dry before....
Everyday's a school day.

 

[Derrick Hughes]

I have to say.....I've never heard of hay being too dry before....
Everyday's a school day.

Well at least you admit to your lack of knowledge on the subject

 

[czechmate]

I have to say.....I've never heard of hay being too dry before....
Everyday's a school day.

You really want some green in it

 

[7610 super q]

You really want some green in it

So it catches fire ?

 

[czechmate]

So it catches fire ?

Anything is possible but I was more thinking along the lines of it having some feed value left. But then I use it myself, not sell it

 

[Derrick Hughes]

There's a good trade for good hay hay but can the straw makers please stick to haylage
or take early retirement

 

[Derrick Hughes]

And I hope you have all got your sheep there eating the dead

 

[neilo]

And I hope you have all got your sheep there eating the dead

Always do, in fact the field that hay came off was grazed bare in April.

Maybe you should go and see it ..... in your new truck

Too late now, it's been sold to someone that had actually seen it.

Too dry, my arse.

 

[Derrick Hughes]

Always do, in fact the field that hay came off was grazed bare in April.



Too late now, it's been sold to someone that had actually seen it.

Too dry, my arse.

Well it wasn't baled tight then .2 and 2 make 4 in my book

 

[d williams]

Well it wasn't baled tight then .2 and 2 make 4 in my book

Make 2.2 in my book

 

[Derrick Hughes]

Make 2.2 in my book

To dry

 

[endeavour]

FT
Or not too dry ----its all in the H2o

 

[d williams]

To dry

I was questioning your maths?

 

[Derrick Hughes]

I was questioning your maths?

OK but let's keep on topic

 

[Derrick Hughes]

Just for you @Bury the Trash , I calibrated the scales on the new load bars and weighed a few bales tonight. A 7'6" quadrant bale of hay was 318kg. An 8' quadrant bale of Spring Barley straw was 325kg (we've always worked on 3 to a ton, so just about right). I was surprised the hay was about the same, I had always assumed it was heavier than straw. Learn something every day.

A 4' chopped (Fusion) silage bale at 60%DM was 494kg.

What can I find to weigh tomorrow......

I believe you sold the hay as 3 to the ton .as the above shows this as incorrect you best alter your wording or you could be done by weights and the measures

 

[bobk]

I believe you sold the hay as 3 to the ton .as the above shows this as incorrect you best alter your wording or you could be done by weights and the measures

He sold it by the bale , try and keep up.