- Location
- Northumberland
might not be much to go in them this year!
Silage pit
- Thread starter Fergieman
- Start date
cozzie
Member
- Location
- Munster, Ireland
is pillars and panels much cheaper than straight mass concrete walls?
Friesianfan
Member
- Location
- Cornwall
Looks smart!
- Location
- Northern Ireland
Looks great. We have a pair a bit like that put up the guts of twenty years ago, but walls are poured. I absolutely hate buckraking with the safety barrier - but that's probably because I overfill them most years, because they aren't big enough of course.
I'll be round on Monday to measure up to put panels on top of the walls, should get a bit extra in that way
Dead Rabbits
Member
- Location
- 'Merica
What is the metal on top of the walls for?
- Location
- Northern Ireland
- Location
- Northern Ireland
To help prevent you killing yourself on the buckrake
I don't think it matters what height the wall is, the grass has to be at least 4 foot above them!
- Location
- Northern Ireland
Another six to eight foot above wall height wouldn't be unusual here.
- Location
- Northern Ireland
I've had the finished top just a tractor width and a half. Blooming dangerous
Another six to eight foot above wall height wouldn't be unusual here.
I'd better stay away then or you would have yourself killed!
- Location
- Northern Ireland
If you think that's bad, which it is, I'll tell you what they used to do on my uncle's pit years ago. He and dad hand built a clamp on his farm. Five foot walls. Probably fifty foot wide or more. Beef farm, big crops. Second cut went on top of first. Tractors were two wheel drive backt then. It was so high in the middle that, to get the well-sloped sides rolled, they took two tractors up and rolled it from side to side. Each tractor facing in the opposite direction, and attached from hitch to hitch by a chain. Reason being a two wheel drive could roll down the side, but not get back up (especially if tue grass was wet) and needed help. . Hairy
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One day this is exactly what I’m looking for (hopefully). Sizes dimensions and expected tonnage? Really is a smart job
Or as @bigw askedOne day this is exactly what I’m looking for (hopefully). Sizes dimensions and expected tonnage? Really is a smart job
Be a fair clamp when your pitted 3rd cut over the dividing wall
- Location
- Northern Ireland
I have actually considered cutting the barrier off our middle wall for that very reason.
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And, clamp is dug into a slope, so ground is level with wall at the back. So, we've also talked about sticking a barrier up at the front end and filling from the back to fill the corners out square. Now that would be a pit.
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And, clamp is dug into a slope, so ground is level with wall at the back. So, we've also talked about sticking a barrier up at the front end and filling from the back to fill the corners out square. Now that would be a pit.
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