Round bale weights

[Spartacus]

Just wondering how much weight people get into a 5 foot round bale of silage, just sold a few to a neighbour who has a keenan feeder so has weighed the first bale he used at 655kg, that about the norm for them?

 

[snowhite]

Just wondering how much weight people get into a 5 foot round bale of silage, just sold a few to a neighbour who has a keenan feeder so has weighed the first bale he used at 655kg, that about the norm for them?

will depend on the baler used and the speed of the forward speed and the type forage being baled , we bought 4x4 at 800 kg but there was lots of stone in the bales of sorghum

 

[David.]

Dryish 2013 ryegrass haylage, 320kg in 4ft Claas soft centre bales, weighed some last week.

 

[Chae1]

Just wondering how much weight people get into a 5 foot round bale of silage, just sold a few to a neighbour who has a keenan feeder so has weighed the first bale he used at 655kg, that about the norm for them?

5ft bale of silage!? What did you wrap it with? Our 4ft 24hr wilt chopped Mchale bales that we are using at moment are 1000kg. Would say yours are light but depends a lot on grass, dm, type of baler etc.

Baler forward speed makes no difference with belt baler.

 

[Spartacus]

5ft bale of silage!? What did you wrap it with? Our 4ft 24hr wilt chopped Mchale bales that we are using at moment are 1000kg. Would say yours are light but depends a lot on grass, dm, type of baler etc.

Baler forward speed makes no difference with belt baler.

1000kg I'd have to get a new tractor for that weight this is two day wilted last July in the heat but not as dry as we had expected so nice silage. Baled by a new Vicon last year, i might be wrong about the size but thet are the biggest and solidest bales we've ever had.

 

[roscoe erf]

i would of said 600-700kg but how longs apiece of string

 

[Monty]

Anything from 500kg to 1 ton depending how dry it is. We're getting 5-600kg bales for around 60%DM

 

[Sandy]

Ours are 750-800kg 4ft chopped around 45% dm

 

[Farmer Dod]

Haulier that used to collect silage from us counted them as 1 ton per bale to be safe due to the variation they had found in the past. Our's would have been less than this. Saying that there are near neighbours that go past with 20 bales on a tractor trailer- they do have to creep up the hill and there does seem to be a lot of black reek from the tractor lum.

 

[JD-Kid]

Ummmmm a 4 x 4 (claas 46 rotocut) bale used to work on 250 Kg Dm a bale be it silage balage or hay straw worked out to be not a millon miles out
wet weight means nothing apart from a fine if over loaded
same if yer buying bales don't pay for water
looking at the weights above i'd say 300-325 KgDM would not be far off for newer balers