Linseed straw bales ?

topcat2006

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Arable Farmer
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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)
 

Clive

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Lichfield
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)

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 ?
 

topcat2006

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The Cotswolds
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 ?
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]
 

Clive

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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
 

topcat2006

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Arable Farmer
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The Cotswolds
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
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.
 

Clive

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i don’t understand why a farmer would ever burn carbon ? it’s literally setting fire to your profits ?

if you can’t sell it as linseed straw sell it as wheat in a few years time surely ?
 

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