Round baling silage cost

[John Deere 8530]

Ah I see so you'll be charging £8.50 a bale

Correct, and then there is obviously cutting and rowing.

 

[Smokey16]

Ah yea. How much for 4layers

 

[Wellytrack]

You turn up, but he can't get the corner of a field baled at the same rate as he'll get 100 acres in one block done for, he'd be ignorant to expect that and it would be foolish to charge them at the same rate.

Thats admirable and generous to assume that. Also it’s more likely to be a 20-30 acre block as being the ‘bigger’ 250 bale job. Anything much more than that will go to a pit, or if no pit split into two visits as the farmer will have plenty to do shifting and stacking the bales.

 

[M-J-G]

A twin spool wrapper should be able to keep up with 2 balers, we used to run a single spool with 2 balers.
Customers here want bales wrapped straight away so they can start stacking them, there's no point in the wrapper turning up hours later.
Extra for steep land, little fields or small quantities would depend on how much of that type of work there is for each customer.

A single spool wrapper will barely keep up with one modern day baler in reasonable sized fields.

What size of fields or jobs are you on that you need to rock up to it with 2 balers?
Who's clearing them?

 

[John Deere 8530]

Ah yea. How much for 4layers

£3÷6 = 50p per layer
4 layers = £2
Always put 6 layers on though.

 

[glasshouse]

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.....

Did that in 1988
Only wrap haylage now for horses

 

[Smokey16]

Thanks. Farmers we do baling and wrapping for always want 4layers on

 

[M-J-G]

Thats admirable and generous to assume that. Also it’s more likely to be a 20-30 acre block as being the ‘bigger’ 250 bale job. Anything much more than that will go to a pit, or if no pit split into two visits as the farmer will have plenty to do shifting and stacking the bales.

Sounds like you need a fiver for those kinds of set-ups!!

 

[Smokey16]

Right, so that 1000 bale customer also has the 30 bale job, so you don’t turn up for that? That’s a fair weather contractor and not one to be depended on.

Your right. A neighbour we do baling for know asked us couple years ago if we could bale 5acres of hay for him before rain comes cuz his usual contractor couldn't get to him so we rushed up there and baled 35bales for him. And know we do all his baling and wrapping

 

[Wellytrack]

Your right. A neighbour we do baling for know asked us couple years ago if we could bale 5acres of hay for him before rain comes cuz his usual contractor couldn't get to him so we rushed up there and baled 35bales for him. And know we do all his baling and wrapping

I was mowing my own grass one day and had just watched the rain follow the river around past the villages for 30 mins and i knew it wasn’t far away. A panicked customer landed wanting his hay baled. It was still flat to the floor and needing raked too. My dad raked in front of me and the last of the 40 odd bales was the only one baled raining, the heavens opened as I was packing the wheels away. Certainly down to the wire. Just a little bit more warning wouldn’t have went amiss

 

[Hilti]

£3÷6 = 50p per layer
4 layers = £2
Always put 6 layers on though.

Someone's got a shed full aw cheep wrap going by those prices

 

[ollie989898]

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.....

With the prices of bales being talked about here, wouldn't take many bales until your clamp has paid for itself on net and wrap alone.

 

[M-J-G]

Your right. A neighbour we do baling for know asked us couple years ago if we could bale 5acres of hay for him before rain comes cuz his usual contractor couldn't get to him so we rushed up there and baled 35bales for him. And know we do all his baling and wrapping

And he left his regular man because he couldn't be in 2 places at once.

 

[Smokey16]

And he left his regular man because he couldn't be in 2 places at once.

He left his regular man cuz he wouldn't come out to do small acreage

 

[Smokey16]

I was mowing my own grass one day and had just watched the rain follow the river around past the villages for 30 mins and i knew it wasn’t far away. A panicked customer landed wanting his hay baled. It was still flat to the floor and needing raked too. My dad raked in front of me and the last of the 40 odd bales was the only one baled raining, the heavens opened as I was packing the wheels away. Certainly down to the wire. Just a little bit more warning wouldn’t have went amiss

Ino what you mean we got a customer that makes most of his hay small bales but last season the weather kept catching him out. His first cut of hay he gets us in to bale and wrap the headlands. Made us laugh last year he made second cut hay in September and his baler was playing up it was a very hot day so he started raking up with his haybob and all of a sudden this strong breeze came out of no where and his row where flat again. Haha

 

[Smokey16]

I was mowing my own grass one day and had just watched the rain follow the river around past the villages for 30 mins and i knew it wasn’t far away. A panicked customer landed wanting his hay baled. It was still flat to the floor and needing raked too. My dad raked in front of me and the last of the 40 odd bales was the only one baled raining, the heavens opened as I was packing the wheels away. Certainly down to the wire. Just a little bit more warning wouldn’t have went amiss

What baler do you run? We've got a claas 250 rota cut but been offer a welger rp220 master for £4000 I thought that was cheap if its chains ect are in gd condition but paint works is a bit sh!t

 

[kiwi pom]

He left his regular man cuz he wouldn't come out to do small acreage

Wouldn't or couldn't get there at the exact moment he was required?
You don't do much contracting if you think you can be at multiple places at exactly the right time every time.

 

[Wellytrack]

What baler do you run? We've got a claas 250 rota cut but been offer a welger rp220 master for £4000 I thought that was cheap if its chains ect are in gd condition but paint works is a bit sh!t

Good baler, used one years ago. Hard to turn down at that kind of money.

I’ve a Fusion 3 with camless pickup.

 

[Smokey16]

Wouldn't or couldn't get there at the exact moment he was required?
You don't do much contracting if you think you can be at multiple places at exactly the right time every time.

He wouldn't turn up. No we don't do much contract baling we bale and wrap for 7 farms. All I was trying to say is most contractors around my way would rather go to big farms then the small farms that's fair enough. We did 5 acres for the chap and know we do about 100 acres a season for him

 

[M-J-G]

He left his regular man cuz he wouldn't come out to do small acreage

Sorry, you'd said the couldn't go to him, but it's that he wouldn't go.