- Location
- Ceredigion
How heavy is a quadrant bale of hay?
- Thread starter neilo
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- Location
- Montgomeryshire
I do, it keeps things nice and simple. I believe it's probably fairer to all, than relying on a vendors own weighbridge ticket.
Some of the bales will be 8' I'm sure, so they might well average out at over 333.333kg each.
Aye, best dunk those bales in a pond first....no market for dry, dust free hay.....
And £15 for rounds waaayyyy too cheap.
And £15 for rounds waaayyyy too cheap.
- Location
- Ceredigion
When you advertise it's best not to advise on bale weight as even if you weigh one you won't find two the sameI do, it keeps things nice and simple. I believe it's probably fairer to all, than relying on a vendors own weighbridge ticket.
Aye, best dunk those bales in a pond first....no market for dry, dust free hay.....
And £15 for rounds waaayyyy too cheap.
You can't sell round bales , they're a pita.
Don't be silly.
- Location
- Limousin/Charentes toad land
Aye, best dunk those bales in a pond first....no market for dry, dust free hay.....
And £15 for rounds waaayyyy too cheap.
Can I just politely ask, do you feed anything with hay as you seem to have an idea that over made hay is preferential to well made hay (which should include some green material)?
- Location
- Montgomeryshire
Aye, best dunk those bales in a pond first....no market for dry, dust free hay.....
And £15 for rounds waaayyyy too cheap.
Do you think so? They weigh 235kg (OK....'ish'
) each, so about on a par with the quads.Lots of hay & silage round these parts this year and rounds are only likely to be a local trade.
Nope, don't feed any myself. But here in Crapweathershire, where we not only have very little dry weather, and rarely get high temperatures, you have to be damn sure it's fit before baling it.
3 day hay is all very well if you get the climate.
My post was a bit tongue in cheek. It depends on how long the winter lasts.If we get an early spring, £15 will seem like a good price.........Do you think so? They weigh 235kg (OK....'ish'
Lots of hay & silage round these parts this year and rounds are only likely to be a local trade.
- Location
- Ceredigion
It's not just the weather .a lot of grass is dead hay before its cut
- Location
- Limousin/Charentes toad land
I can add to that, that both my next door neighbour in England and here have both had to rush out and empty sheds of burning hay. Probably because they are both good farmers trying to produce the best quality forage they can
Where this goes wrong is the bloody headlands, esp with big tree hedges - my plan for this year, now I have hayledge gear, is to wrap the outside rows. I am not going to spend weeks feeding burnt, lifeless empty hay just so I can bale and cart the same day and not have to look at the stuff again until winter.
- Location
- Ceredigion
Good hay starts today .that's if you have the right Ley
- Location
- Limousin/Charentes toad land
3 days! What you muckin around at, next door did some 36 hr last summer.
I can add to that, that both my next door neighbour in England and here have both had to rush out and empty sheds of burning hay. Probably because they are both good farmers trying to produce the best quality forage they can
Where this goes wrong is the bloody headlands, esp with big tree hedges - my plan for this year, now I have hayledge gear, is to wrap the outside rows. I am not going to spend weeks feeding burnt, lifeless empty hay just so I can bale and cart the same day and not have to look at the stuff again until winter.
That lifeless dry sh!t is perfect for your cows , but the bulls need rocket fuel silage .... but you probably know that.
Trouble is the weather is fudging the job , we're making light cuts in May and second cut hay in August ... not by the book but what can you do.
- Location
- Limousin/Charentes toad land
Is that wrapped in May Howard?
Oui .