Sipma

[steveR]

I remember going to a young farmers do and my best friend and i got got totally smashed ,the next day my friend was baling silage and made all the bales too big for the silage bags,his dad was less than impressed and tried blaming me for his son doing his own body weight in beer.

I did that once....

The Krone would make a BIG bale for that era, lot bigger and heavier than the Welger my neighbour used. Had to buy special big bags.

 

[wurzell1976]

The JD550 won’t bale really dry stuff. It wing start a bale.
We went back to small bale hay and straw about 3 years ago as sheep numbers were small. Now sheep numbers are increasing again we need to sort out the round bale side of things.

I used to run two 550 s as a lad in my contracting days but as you say the straw had to be right or else you were in trouble.I then sold them and bought a NH 640 and could bale the same as the two 550 s in a day.

 

[DrWazzock]

Bagged plenty of silage. One old farmer insisted we reuse last years bags and tape up any mouse holes. You’d hold the bag into the wind then stick your head in it to see the holes. Sometime it looked like the sky at night in there. Then out with the hoover to suck the air out once it was on the bale, stood on a blistering hot old silage sheet. It was a long week.

 

[wurzell1976]

Bagged plenty of silage. One old farmer insisted we reuse last years bags and tape up any mouse holes. You’d hold the bag into the wind then stick your head in it to see the holes. Sometime it looked like the sky at night in there. Then out with the hoover to suck the air out once it was on the bale, stood on a blistering hot old silage sheet. It was a long week.

The things we did.In 1976 my father had just forked 300 bales onto a trailer and within 5 minutes the driver turned the lot on it's side ,father didn't know whether to cry or set fire to it. I would give a lot for a blistering hot silage sheet at the moment.This year i am going to drill my winter crops in August and be ahead of the game.

 

[DrWazzock]

Our old small bale trailer was a two wheeler built by grandad using a bus axle and the original wheels and tyres. Tyres were worn out and one was much “softer” than the other no matter what pressure you put in them. The result was it would always lean heavily to the right hand side no matter how carefully you’d built it and it made reversing between the hay shed pillars particularly difficult with no mirrors. We had to put up with that damn thing for years. Dad always made us overhang half a bale width on the bottom layer to get more on as well. There were quite a few calamities in rough gateholes where you’d see it bounce from one wheel to the other before shedding half the load off to the right hand side, passengers and all.

 

[wurzell1976]

Old Charlie the game keeper had loaded one day and traveled back to the yard on top of a load until the phone wires got him at the back of the neck ,to his credit and relief he hung on until the wires broke.I tell my 11 year old son all sorts that used to happen and the way things were done ,but he thinks i'm joking half the time.

 

[wurzell1976]

On the subject of wrappers we have an Elho that fits on the back of the tractor and for years it worked fine. It would wrap even the softest sloppiest undersized bale but one year we thought we’d give it a birthday and took the chain off between the two rollers to shorten it a bit as it was very slack. We put the chain back on but maybe got it on the wrong sprockets but from then on it really struggled to wrap anything but the firmest roundest bale. Soft bales seemed to slump between the rollers which would then skid and not turn the bale and get it even more out of shape. I checked the sprockets in the manual and we seemed to have the chain on the right ones for bale size and overlap etc but the machine was never the same again. Another of those mysteries where trying to do the right thing wrecked it. Nearly drove us mad trying to wrap the silage especially with the allsorts out of the sipma, some with no net, some with about 35 layers.

Go onto youtube and watch bale wrapping gone wrong ,shouldn't laugh really .

 

[2wheels]

Found a few McHale today and made a few inquiries , my wife has been looking for me this afternoon as she thinks i should spend a bit more , not have trouble and then not come home in a bad mood.

bloody hell, she will be pestering you for sex next.

 

[Tim G]

Looking to view a front loading bale wrapper that leaves the bales on their end ,any thoughts ?

Is that the one with a dealer in Somerset? I was looking a while back and that one came up, it was then entered in an auction, but now the dealer is still advertising it. I'm guessing they are having a job shifting it.

 

[wurzell1976]

Is that the one with a dealer in Somerset? I was looking a while back and that one came up, it was then entered in an auction, but now the dealer is still advertising it. I'm guessing they are having a job shifting it.

Yes it is,but after some of the advice on here, i have just 10 minutes ago bought a Mchale 991be.

 

[wurzell1976]

bloody hell, she will be pestering you for sex next.

I'm always fit to go.daughters off school today and it is too cold in the barn,

 

[wurzell1976]

Your wife reckons you should spend more? Oh my days.. What kind of trickery is this

Buy a new one if you like, 5k on a 991 BE from a reputable dealer will go far too.

Just bought one from a main dealer ,less than 5k delivered.