How many trailers.........

[early riser]

Been offered a field of WW to wholecrop this summer. Just on budgeting what it will cost to get it back to base.

Field is 8.5mile away, good roadside frontage, main roads all the way there, no busy towns or villages to pass through. Relatively flat going.

Wondering how many trailers I would need on to keep up with a Jag 980?? Dealing with 50k 200hp+ tractors and 16t trailers.

Thoughts anyone? TIA

 

[FarmerFrank88]

Been offered a field of WW to wholecrop this summer. Just on budgeting what it will cost to get it back to base.

Field is 8.5mile away, good roadside frontage, main roads all the way there, no busy towns or villages to pass through. Relatively flat going.

Wondering how many trailers I would need on to keep up with a Jag 980?? Dealing with 50k 200hp+ tractors and 16t trailers.

Thoughts anyone? TIA

I would expect it to take 3 mins to fill each trailer roughly so the time taken for a round trip divided by 3. Sorry I can't guess how long a 17 mile round trip would take as all the roads we go on are $hit, your doing well if you hit 30k

 

[Drillman]

I would guess at 40-60 mins round trip per trailer depending if hero’s were driving the tractors or not!

 

[Chae1]

Our chopper man just takes a newspaper when trailers have long haul!

 

[DaveJ]

In honesty, it's a "how long is a piece of string" question. As above, I've seen a similar round trip take an hour due to roundabouts and having to wait at sections of single track road each end. Straight run and 50k should knock that down by 15 mins but you'd still need a biblical number of trailers to keep the chopper flat out.

The simplest solution is to ask your contractor's opinion. If they're happy with usual wholecrop rate plus 2 or 3 extra trailers at £x/hr then you've got a pretty good idea where you sit.

 

[ollie989898]

16-17 miles is near as dammit 27 kilometres. If you know the tractors will be running at top speed the whole way then I reckon 40-45 minutes per load travel time but could easily be an hour if traffic is bad. I would think 7 trailers minimum.

 

[Mouser]

General rule of 1 per mile to field seems to work here so 9 should do

 

[Nearly]

Can you cope with a trailer every 3 mins at the pit end?

 

[sawdust]

Would it not fit better to know how many acres the said field is first? If it’s only 2 acres 1 trailer will be plenty!

 

[Zippy768]

9 tractors and trailers would be chaos surely? For the first time in my memory we once got the contractor to cut our first cut because our machinery was getting a bit tired. 12+ mile round trip on narrow slow roads and the chopper pilot kept on calling in more trailers - utter chaos. Tractors were waiting everywhere, backed up on the yard.
We went and bought another mower and forager for the next season

 

[7610 super q]

1 trailer, and keep 'er lit.

 

[early riser]

Would it not fit better to know how many acres the said field is first? If it’s only 2 acres 1 trailer will be plenty!

30ac

 

[early riser]

Can you cope with a trailer every 3 mins at the pit end?

Yes

 

[vantage]

1 trailer per mile is rule of thumb.

 

[early riser]

9 tractors and trailers would be chaos surely? For the first time in my memory we once got the contractor to cut our first cut because our machinery was getting a bit tired. 12+ mile round trip on narrow slow roads and the chopper pilot kept on calling in more trailers - utter chaos. Tractors were waiting everywhere, backed up on the yard.
We went and bought another mower and forager for the next season

Large herds up here will think nothing of putting 20 + trailers on.

All good main roads and good clamps with wide aprons to turn, tip, repeat

 

[Tarw Coch]

Seven 16 ton trailers should keep up if good roads, no hold ups, more trailers will bunch up and be standing at some point. There might be a few pauses once opened up and in long ground but not enough to warrant an extra trailer.
But as said earlier, have a word with your contractor, some ain’t happy unless there’s a couple of trailers waiting, because from what I’ve seen trailering for several contractors less often get more done.

 

[multi power]

3 or 4 artic lorry's will be much more efficient, and more cost effective as well

 

[Flyingscotsman]

1 x trailer per mile + 1. So for a 8.5 mile haul , 10 trailers.

 

[agcon1]

as others have said, 1 trailer per mile as rule of thumb

 

[kej81]

Been offered a field of WW to wholecrop this summer. Just on budgeting what it will cost to get it back to base.

Field is 8.5mile away, good roadside frontage, main roads all the way there, no busy towns or villages to pass through. Relatively flat going.

Wondering how many trailers I would need on to keep up with a Jag 980?? Dealing with 50k 200hp+ tractors and 16t trailers.

Thoughts anyone? TIA

How big is the field?