Silopacter

[Bald Rick]

Anyone using one?

Pros and cons?

Tia

 

[Mouser]

Compacts silage?
Costs wages and diesel ?

 

[vantage]

ALL the large units round here have them, one local Irish farmer even wondered “ how the hell did we make silage without one?”. They compact incredibly well, we used one with the former contractor, good job.

 

[CWS]

Compacts silage?
Costs wages and diesel ?

Agree completely, still worth it though

 

[Lofty1984]

Two using them in this area and swear by them , I’ll tag him as I know he raves about his @Speedstar
They are lovely to buckrake alongside not having to worry about rolling

 

[YELROM]

@Chae1 uses one i think as he put a picture of one on his tractor, i think in the silaging thread

 

[HarryB97]

A contractor round here used to use one with a buckrake on the front. He changed to a loading shovel for a season but sold it a year later and went back to a tractor and compacter as the quality of the silage wasn't nearly as good. They are expensive for what they are though but should last for decades.

 

[BDBed]

Anyone know a rough idea on what one costs?

 

[Chae1]

@Chae1 uses one i think as he put a picture of one on his tractor, i think in the silaging thread

Here it goes. Buckraking man here likes it too as he's normally pushing grass up a compacted pit. They just swap sides. We use a big tractor on it t7 260 its really heavy. Have very little waste when we open pit and feeding out and put it down to compactor.

 

[Jim75]

Here it goes. Buckraking man here likes it too as he's normally pushing grass up a compacted pit. They just swap sides. We use a big tractor on it t7 260 its really heavy. Have very little waste when we open pit and feeding out and put it down to compactor.

what does it weigh

 

[Chae1]

what does it weigh

No idea! Its contractors. We just get it from him when he comes here to chop.

Once put it on front linkage when we went down to pick up a silage trailer and back end of tractor was lifting off the ground when braking at a junction!

Haven't done that again.

 

[Jim75]

No idea! Its contractors. We just get it from him when he comes here to chop.

Once put it on front linkage when we went down to pick up a silage trailer and back end of tractor was lifting off the ground when braking at a junction!

Haven't done that again.

pretty heavy then.?

 

[bez]

4.3 ton I think. We used it on the back the other day with the buckrake on the front. Driver really liked it. Reckoned he could buckrake in two wheel drive he had so much grip on the back.

 

[Lofty1984]

I’d be concerned with the stressOn the tractor long term of running it on the back of the buckrake tractor Serious strain put on the center of the tractor lifting a buckrake full of grass with 4+ ton on the back

 

[Speedstar]

Anyone using one?

Pros and cons?

Tia

We have used one fore the last 5 years & would not be with out one 0% waste on a pit & you get 20 to 30% more grass in the same size of pit, they are about 4200kg , new they must be about 10k now with lights etc, you can roll a pit for hours with a heavy tractor or machine , were a compactor will do a lot better job in half the time.

 

[Chae1]

I’d be concerned with the stressOn the tractor long term of running it on the back of the buckrake tractor Serious strain put on the center of the tractor lifting a buckrake full of grass with 4+ ton on the back

Our buckrake man won't do both jobs. He has a 8690 so plenty weight and power.

 

[Chae1]

We have used one fore the last 5 years & would not be with out one 0% waste on a pit & you get 20 to 30% more grass in the same size of pit, they are about 4200kg , new they must be about 10k now with lights etc, you can roll a pit for hours with a heavy tractor or machine , were a compactor will do a lot better job in half the time.

Why is there such a big gap between wheels on your one?

Not compacting full width, only half?

 

[DeeGee]

Just thinking aloud, so don’t shoot me down in flames; but is there any reason why you could not adapt a 40” barrel seriously real ‘feck off’ heavy duty roller onto the three point linkage do the same job for less than half the price?

 

[Speedstar]

Anyone using one?

Pros and cons?

Tia

Why is there such a big gap between wheels on your one?

Not compacting full width, only half?

ours is a standard CK one how do you mean ? your one in the photo is not a CK one

 

[Lofty1984]

The rings on the train wheels help force the air out just a flat roll wouldn’t get into and sunken bits properly it would ride over the humps and bumps too much @DeeGee