Maize pit
- Thread starter mayz92
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davidroberts30
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- Location
- pembrokeshire
your going to be in the region of 5x30x2-2.5meters
only trouble with bale walls is vermin
If you’ve truly got lots of space & can roll up the sides & across to the other then don’t bother with walls. As said above you have vermin issues & can’t compact the shoulders as well so potential waste. Also means you don’t have to worry about what size you need quite the same before hand & get the bales ready.
ringi
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If you’ve truly got lots of space then I would look at Vacuum Silage with each pod sized for a week's feed. Maybe use temporary placed bales to get higher pods.
harperfarmer
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I made a temporary pit out of square bale clover silage. Looked great at first, neat and tidy but was an absolute disaster. Rats attracted to the maize then got into the clover bales and wrecked them. Wasted no end. I'd go back to using straw bales because ultimately if the rats get in to them it's very little maize that gets wasted and the straw isn't affected at all.
ringi
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I made a temporary pit out of square bale clover silage. Looked great at first, neat and tidy but was an absolute disaster. Rats attracted to the maize then got into the clover bales and wrecked them. Wasted no end. I'd go back to using straw bales because ultimately if the rats get in to them it's very little maize that gets wasted and the straw isn't affected at all.
Did you sheet the sides and seal the sheeting?
harperfarmer
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Sheeted the sides yes what do you mean by sealing the sheeting?
Matt
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- Location
- herefordshire, uk
Ag bag, or just make a mound. Long and narrow. Roll up and over side to side.
Gerbert
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- Location
- Dutch biblebelt
Any idiot can do it, it is just that we have slightly less stringent rules on water run off from the silage as we tend to clamp drier.
Just so you knowI, it also depends if the silagepit is classed as a building and thus needs to be in a "building block", which changes by municipality. A walled pit holds more and is easier to keep tidy when the forage comes in quick.
So mostly down to rules.
- Location
- Middle of nowhere, Pembrokeshire
This popped up on my Instagram this morning, I think this is the farm that @Bald n Grumpy mentioned above.
- Location
- S E Wales
That's the one, looks a decent job.
This popped up on my Instagram this morning, I think this is the farm that @Bald n Grumpy mentioned above.
I don't really care but are there any legal requirements/regulations to be considered before doing this?
I assume there’s no perimeter drain & very much doubt he’s collecting the run off from his whole yard so EA would have your pants down if they knew. No way you could class that as field silage.
Must be difficult to use all the silage from against the bales &/or end up with no waste.
ringi
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If it is fully sealed under/sides as well as top, how it is logically different from a very large wapped round bale?
Can't the bales be used 1st?
But that could be said for any clamp. Logically or not, it isn’t a wrapped bale therefore different rules.
Top of the clamp is wider than the bottom so would tip out if the bales weren’t supporting it or at the very least move & allow mould to develop. Could use them as you go, but probably easier to just re-stack them to one side.
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