Linseed straw bales ?
- Thread starter Clive
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- Location
- The Cotswolds
Last year there was no one local to us interested in it (Bedfordshire).
We ended up pushing it into heaps with the handler and setting fire to it.
Make sure you notify the fire brigade when you start and stop.
It doesn't burn very well in rows, but by heck it got hot in heaps.
Apparently it burns too hot for the power stations and the one in Ely had to have a new boiler as the heat buckled it. (I was told about this at the time)
We ended up pushing it into heaps with the handler and setting fire to it.
Make sure you notify the fire brigade when you start and stop.
It doesn't burn very well in rows, but by heck it got hot in heaps.
Apparently it burns too hot for the power stations and the one in Ely had to have a new boiler as the heat buckled it. (I was told about this at the time)
Daniel
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- Location
- Mildenhall, Suffolk
Round bale ours and deliver to a cucumber farm for £45/t. Burns very well in the greenhouse boiler apparently.
why would you waste the money baling just to burn all that organic matter ?
we normally just chop and drill direct into it, can’t see any point in burning the stuff ?
But with straw looking pricey again this year i’m thinking it must have a value ?
- Location
- The Cotswolds
Tbh if we could have chopped it we would. But all the advice we had was that it would wrap around the chopper and cause a fire so we didn't and made our own fire instead. [emoji23][emoji23][emoji23]
it’s ok through a Lexion chopper - nightmare if you try cultivate even lightly though but a disc drill direct into it is ok and by spring it’s all disappeared
- Location
- The Cotswolds
I wasn't sure it would be ok through a 20 year old MF 36RS... Good to know about the disc drill.
Slightly OT, but stripper header works well.
spin cycle
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- Location
- north norfolk
brilliant stuff for sheep i've heard @Derrick Hughes ?
- Location
- Ceredigion
Yes . I used to sell tons of it , but its hard stuff to get right . Seen bales full of dirt
yes we cut it with a stripper a few years ago - made very light work of it
what’s its value vs wheat straw ? more ? less ? same ?
Cambridgeshire
Member
I was paid £9 per big Heeston last year! They baled and collected
Used in a Furness drying grain.
does not sound a lot given the off take, traffic and hassle ?
how many bales per acre ? i would imagine it weighs heavy in a bale ?
Cambridgeshire
Member
3.2 bales/ha get it gone I say I would only push it up and burn it! Topdown and linseed straw not a great match! ?
Cambridgeshire
Member
Oh well! My problem I guess!?
- Location
- Lincolnshire
You might be so sick of the sight of it come October that you'd wished you had spent a few hours taking it into heaps.
- Location
- Kenilworth
That’s the trouble.
it sits in lumps.
Yea, a disc drill cuts through it, but you have a great gob of straw that nothing can grow through.
Cambridgeshire
Member
Some years it’s bad enough getting it up one rotor let alone two and then through a chopper...