Round baling silage cost
- Thread starter Smokey16
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celtis man
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Just the baling
Boohoo
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- Location
- Newtownabbey
Looking like £10 for 4ft chopped with NRF and 4 layers with the contractor supplying film, wrap and diesel.
Wellytrack
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Just the baling
Maybe he could for 3 quid but it won’t be long.
celtis man
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What do you think it ought to be? Any more and either will dig a pit or buy a baler
Wellytrack
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£5 minimum.
That's cheap for baling!!Our contractor has upped his rates massively this year not happy. We have been quoted £2.25 for a 4ft round
And £2.75 to wrap with 6 layers think he’s taking advantage of the small increase in fuel to jump prices
Will be using biodegradableWas just thinking yesterday....how long till big baling is banned because of all the plastic usage
thinking that myself but with standard net, leaves 6 layers like 11.30?
M-J-G
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To do what exactly?
Boohoo
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- Location
- Newtownabbey
At least that. Putting 6 layers on instead of 4 costs a lot more than just the cost of the wrap.
celtis man
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Bugger that we would buy one or build a pit
ollie989898
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Funnily enough, steel and concrete have gone up as well.
Wellytrack
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You certainly could.
Wellytrack
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According to the OP make a bale.
M-J-G
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Not sure about a fusion, but with a static or a twin spool it doesn't really make any difference to time and motion that I've seen, apart from fitting a new roll more often.
Boohoo
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- Location
- Newtownabbey
I've never found that and spent years wrapping with trailed wrappers before Fusions arrived.
Every extra turn of the wrapper adds time.
If you're fitting a new roll you're not wrapping bales so you're losing money.
You have to buy more wrap that you'll have paid for long before your customers pay you.
You'll have to carry more wrap with you or get someone to bring extra wrap for the big jobs if you can't carry enough.
With a Fusion you often have to wait for the wrapper to finish when applying 6 layers in a dry, heavy crop.
Ceri
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Bloody hell wat planet r u on that's cheap we were paying £7.75 before things went crazy dear .......Our contractor has upped his rates massively this year not happy. We have been quoted £2.25 for a 4ft round
And £2.75 to wrap with 6 layers think he’s taking advantage of the small increase in fuel to jump prices
puntabrava
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- Location
- Wiltshire
Ceri
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Well all I'm gonna say is we used to make everything in bales then 2 yrs ago we put a silage pit in....... Wat can I say THE BEST THING WE'VE EVER DONE...... round bale silage is the work of the devil - expensive, seriously time consuming, clocking hrs on your tack lugging the bloody things, scuffing tyres unloading at the stack etc etc..... I could honestly say I'd give up farming before going back to round bale silage even with concrete & steel at the price it is I wouldn't hesitate to do it again even if it meant extending the o/d.....