World war 3I suggest you do a bit of digging and trawl through the countless arguments on this point on tff already save yourself the hassle of the continuous alerts of arguments on your thread
Fantastic post totally unbiased for once on this topicWith this being me first season with a wagon as a contactor it has really impressed me. With the acreage you can cover, chop quality and the flexibility I can offer the customer. BUT you have a lot to think about to get the best out of the wagon, from keeping knives sharp to rowing up correctly and clamp management. It is worth looking at but do your research. Go and see what can be achieved in the clamp and ask about best practices. The salesman will tell you what you want to here but 'professional' users will really help to understand the limitations of the system.
A trailed/SPFH will always have a place and may suit better if long hauls involved and labour is in good supply. The plus about these if it goes in it'll chop it. From my own point of view cost and labour made it hard to justify either. But it was something I definitely considered.
As above really what is your situation? It'll make a big difference to which will suit.
It’s nice to read a good all round opinion that isn’t totally biased to one or the other. It’s these sort of user opinions which keeps me a member on here.With this being me first season with a wagon as a contactor it has really impressed me. With the acreage you can cover, chop quality and the flexibility I can offer the customer. BUT you have a lot to think about to get the best out of the wagon, from keeping knives sharp to rowing up correctly and clamp management. It is worth looking at but do your research. Go and see what can be achieved in the clamp and ask about best practices. The salesman will tell you what you want to here but 'professional' users will really help to understand the limitations of the system.
A trailed/SPFH will always have a place and may suit better if long hauls involved and labour is in good supply. The plus about these if it goes in it'll chop it. From my own point of view cost and labour made it hard to justify either. But it was something I definitely considered.
As above really what is your situation? It'll make a big difference to which will suit.
I've nothing against them we gave it a fair go but it wasn't for us it was a 6 mile round trip to the field so took a long time to lift 17 acres they've definitely got a place we just prefer a chopper either trailed or sp we get better silage out the pit after a trailed machine as it's not coming in as fast but nothing wrong with a sp eitherThat would have been tough stuff to chop but they do chop well if the knives are sharp this year we swarted dry grass with a grouper on the mower versus a rake and because the grouper left it crossways it chopped it as well as our old 6810 silage harvester , I do the pushing up so I would notice it very quick and it’s tough going when the grass gets long and stringy
Trying to persuade the Old Man to take silage making back in house and like the look of a wagon. Anyone experienced with wagons care to take me through the positive and negatives?