Round baling silage cost

Hilly

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It's a small day doing the pit mate I'm not standing there watching them for 3 weeks 🤦‍♂️🤦‍♂️🤦‍♂️🤦‍♂️ Then instead of spending endless days carting and stacking bales Im drenching lambs, moving cattle, spreading muck, ploughing & drilling stubble turnips instead of having to pay contractors to do that work cause I was struggling for time due to LUGGING FECKIN ROUND BALES............ So Im also saving money there as well now I have time to do it all myself 👌👌👌👌. Jesus u reakon Its cheaper to buy a rake, baler & wrapper and crack on yourself with it ....f*ck me mon being a one man band there's jus not enough time in the day..... Or money in the bank....
I love to work hard but you've got to work smart nowa days & putting the pit in was the smartest thing I ever did.
Snap, i couldnt keep cows on round bales to much cost .
 
Snap, i couldnt keep cows on round bales to much cost .

I would prefer pit silage for speed of harvesting and reduced annual costs, a lot of our bales for cows have been headlands and areas of fields not suitable for hay.

One up side to bales is the DM that is possible without spoilage and the saving that can be achieved on straw.
I appreciate you're on slats/slurry, so it isn't particularly relevant to your situation
 

Ceri

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I'd love a pit but sepa would get angry with me.if I did get one ,would have to have a roof over it. So for now I'll just have to keep doing my 2500-3000 bales.

It does take time, contractor does the bailing I do the rest.this year though the fields are at different stages so bailing it will be better than a chopper.

Also all I need to feed bales are a bale spike an a ring feeder.how much is a diet feeder now?
2500-3000 in silage bales..........😕😮😳 F*ck me you poor sod 😔😔😔.....!

I honestly think it would be worth the investment boss.... Pull the sheet back 10ft once a week job done, just keep grabbing it, hell that's alot of wrap & net to cut off all bloody winter........
 

Ceri

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90acres in a 1975 built pit, filled and covered in less than a day and a half. How long would it take to make 90ac of bales, even with contractors its a slow job carting them in and stacking. And I wouldn’t get anywhere close to 90ac of bales in that space. I can now crack on with shearing mucking out sheds etc etc. Have to put a value on your own time. Fair enough if I had a football team as a family wanting to help i would consider bales or own little trailed forager but I don’t, lack of staff is a big issue so getting in the contractor guarantees the job is done and they have the expertise and tools to fix stuff quickly if anything breaks down. Only downside is the pit will need replacing soon :cry:
Who was it on here who was trying to tell me that paying contractors to do our pit was dead money and we should buy all the tack to do silage bales........?? I thought I'd heard it all until I read that 😆😆😆
 

Hilly

Member
2500-3000 in silage bales..........😕😮😳 F*ck me you poor sod 😔😔😔.....!

I honestly think it would be worth the investment boss.... Pull the sheet back 10ft once a week job done, just keep grabbing it, hell that's alot of wrap & net to cut off all bloody winter........
Last time i baled i had 2000 , then i built a pit 21 years ago , it covered its own cost in year one and reduced the work to Two days over two weeks faffing about with bloody bales . 21 yesrs ago i worked it out anythjng over 800 was uneconomical.
 

will6910

Member
Location
N.i
Got price here from local contractor and he’s £10.50 a bale and he provides the plastic. That’s just to bale then mow and rake if needed ontop of that
 

Optimus

Member
Livestock Farmer
Location
North of Perth
2500-3000 in silage bales..........😕😮😳 F*ck me you poor sod 😔😔😔.....!

I honestly think it would be worth the investment boss.... Pull the sheet back 10ft once a week job done, just keep grabbing it, hell that's alot of wrap & net to cut off all bloody winter........
I know, it's sepa thats my main issue.that I an the cost of a shed for it now.
 

Matt

Member
90acres in a 1975 built pit, filled and covered in less than a day and a half. How long would it take to make 90ac of bales, even with contractors its a slow job carting them in and stacking. And I wouldn’t get anywhere close to 90ac of bales in that space. I can now crack on with shearing mucking out sheds etc etc. Have to put a value on your own time. Fair enough if I had a football team as a family wanting to help i would consider bales or own little trailed forager but I don’t, lack of staff is a big issue so getting in the contractor guarantees the job is done and they have the expertise and tools to fix stuff quickly if anything breaks down. Only downside is the pit will need replacing soon :cry:
same situation here. far better job with clamp. worst part of the clamp is un sheeting it. used to spend days lugging bales from ground away. now 5 trailers on cart its done and sheeted by bed time.
if ur lucky and dont have to go back for last load could even have fert speader on ready before sheeting up time.
 

zyklon

Member
Livestock Farmer
Our first and second cut go in the pit. Could never bale. Third cut is baled due to lighter crop and the main fact, iit makes useless pit silage especially if put in by a forager.
 

DrDunc

Member
Livestock Farmer
Location
Dunsyre
6.80 if I supply wrap . 10.50 if they supply 6 layers
Is the contractor supplying diesel at that price?

Chopped bales £3.50 and applying 6 layers of supplied wrap £1.80 is near enough the same if the contractor is supplied with diesel
 

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