Pallets under bales, or not?n tar

[steveR]

Can you not just roll some silage sheet out

Its what I do. Works well IME

 

[exmoor dave]

The blue pallets are best got hide them somewhere after all

 

[Derrick Hughes]

Too unstable

Farm near devises been using car tyres in a big barn for years bales stacked high as well

 

[Ffermer Bach]

Farm near devises been using car tyres in a big barn for years bales stacked high as well

I use tyres, no problems at all, pallets rot, where as tyres don't

 

[Bob c]

I use tyres, no problems at all, pallets rot, where as tyres don't

pallets lasted 10 years here so far
they are in the dry

 

[Kiwi Pete]

Woodchip and homemade rat bait mixed in (plaster of paris and cornmeal) works a treat under hay, made right (baled early and turned weekly for a lunar month)
- have found plastic just makes them sweat, and that smell brings the rodents.

Then the same bay is used as a calf-rearing pen in spring for my budget bucket beef

 

[Selectamatic]

@DeeGee, could a man of your means not use a carpet made up from inch thick wads of £50 notes to keep your hay off the ground?

 

[Derrick Hughes]

I use tyres, no problems at all, pallets rot, where as tyres don't

Tyres are easy and not nales if one gets broken

 

[Bob c]

Tyres are easy and not nales if one gets broken

so its between a puncher or a broken ankle
think i will stay with pallets

 

[michael N123]

What do you lot do to tidy your sheds out?
You can’t exactly sweep up the loose straw full off rat bait and bits of pallet then tip it in with some cows to tidy it up

 

[Watty]

No we sweep it up, drag it out and put it in a heap, splash of parafin and off it goes. Nice neat clean and tidy barn for next round. Hate a messy barn. Got one at the moment and it’s bothering me greatly!

 

[kill]

Tyres are easy and no nails if one gets broken

100% agree and my favourites are lorry tyres as they don't squat like car tyres

 

[Derrick Hughes]

We all except that we have to pay more for straw but please try and keep the bottom bales clean and dry , a lot of it goes for feed and farmers can't be mixing dirt in the ration

 

[Daniel Larn]

I like the idea of pallets under the bales, and lord knows we have enough of them.

 

[brigadoon]

Another vote for pallets - as for the rodents - fen traps in wooden tunnels

 

[Paddington]

Hay, straw, feed on pallets here as we're in the bottom of a valley and have been flooded in the past.

 

[Lazy Sod]

I've never used pallets or tyres under bales. How do those of you who do, manage when you are emptying the shed? You can't drive on pallets as you would break them, so presumably you pick them up and stack them. You could drive on car tyres I suppose, but if they are picked up, can you successfully scoop them up in a bucket, or does it mean manhandling them?

 

[7610 super q]

I've never used pallets or tyres under bales. How do those of you who do, manage when you are emptying the shed? You can't drive on pallets as you would break them, so presumably you pick them up and stack them. You could drive on car tyres I suppose, but if they are picked up, can you successfully scoop them up in a bucket, or does it mean manhandling them?

You have to keep stopping to pick um up. This is why quality straw, kept properly over winter costs.......

 

[Zebbedee]

Tyres,pallets,plastic sheets etc with all the time and hassle involved concrete sounds attractive and over a few years maybe not as dear as you think also can be swept up and shed maybe used for other things as well

 

[Bob c]

Tyres,pallets,plastic sheets etc with all the time and hassle involved concrete sounds attractive and over a few years maybe not as dear as you think also can be swept up and shed maybe used for other things as well

even a shed with a concrete floor has pallets
selling hay @ £250+ has got to be worth the hassle
put a line a pallets out ,.....stack with a 40 bale grab
flat 8 load the lorry ,...pick up one line of pallets ready for loading the next load ,...... easy