Square bale sizes

[scrubbuster]

Here in the Highlands most livestock farms that use square bales use full size Hesstons. I do see a few quadrants about but not many. I can't think of ever seeing 120x90s. They look to me to be a handy size and not sure why there are none used. What situation do they come into their own?

 

[bobk]

Here in the Highlands most livestock farms that use square bales use full size Hesstons. I do see a few quadrants about but not many. I can't think of ever seeing 120x90s. They look to me to be a handy size and not sure why there are none used. What situation do they come into their own?

You get more weight on a lorry

 

[Dave6170]

Here in the Highlands most livestock farms that use square bales use full size Hesstons. I do see a few quadrants about but not many. I can't think of ever seeing 120x90s. They look to me to be a handy size and not sure why there are none used. What situation do they come into their own?

Any winter barley baled down with you? Ive ordered a load of hesstons but no sign of it.

 

[Derrick Hughes]

Hestons are ot that popular. They on the limit for hight on artics and a lot of straw choppers cant handle them . A good man on a quadrant baler is hard to beat

 

[scrubbuster]

Any winter barley baled down with you? Ive ordered a load of hesstons but no sign of it.

Not an awful lot of winter barley in Easter Ross last year or 2. First field I saw cut at Invergordon is still not baled. Is it mostly hesstons you use Dave? Would 120x90s be any advantage?!

 

[scrubbuster]

You get more weight on a lorry

What about when bedding are there any pros/cons?

 

[scrubbuster]

Hestons are ot that popular. They on the limit for hight on artics and a lot of straw choppers cant handle them . A good man on a quadrant baler is hard to beat

Quadrants better than 3 quarters?

 

[bobk]

Quadrants better than 3 quarters?

I prefer quads

 

[Dave6170]

Not an awful lot of winter barley in Easter Ross last year or 2. First field I saw cut at Invergordon is still not baled. Is it mostly hesstons you use Dave? Would 120x90s be any advantage?!

I like hesstons. Belair bedder just eats them and 1 bale fills the bedder. I think theyre better value than buying rounds. Never had smaller squares.

 

[HarryB97]

Near enough every square baler round here is a 120x90 I can think of over a dozen people within about ten miles with over 24 balers between them. (oxfordshire) Much easier to put through a straw blower than a hesston and generally a lot easier to handle as well as the straw generally being less smashed up. You get more weight on a lorry with Hesstons as well as a more stable load which is why they are preferred if they are being moved a long distance

 

[scrubbuster]

Near enough every square baler round here is a 120x90 I can think of over a dozen people within about ten miles with over 24 balers between them. (oxfordshire) Much easier to put through a straw blower than a hesston and generally a lot easier to handle as well as the straw generally being less smashed up.

I always think they look a good size for inn the field and in the yard so.always puzzled that there are none that I can think of here

 

[HarryB97]

I always think they look a good size for inn the field and in the yard so.always puzzled that there are none that I can think of here

A nice compromise between a 120x70 and a Hesston. God knows where all the straw roud here ends up then as most is loaded onto Lorrys

 

[Michael3112]

All ours are baled in 120x90hd bales easy worked with from everypoint of view and the straw man loves as they are so quick to to load an always round the 44ton mark an he thinks there better than hestons, used to work with 120x70 was so many more bales to gather etc back then

 

[Beowulf]

I always think they look a good size for inn the field and in the yard so.always puzzled that there are none that I can think of here

Hesston bales are so popular in the North East of Scotland because that's the size the straw-spreading machines used by the carrot/root growers are designed to use. The machines don't get on so well with the smaller square bales apparently, hence the 120x130 Hesston soldiers on in the NE of Scotland when it's mostly been abandoned elsewhere.

I'm told it's also still popular with the power stations that burn straw.

 

[Derrick Hughes]

Quadrants better than 3 quarters?

2.75

 

[scrubbuster]

2.75

??. I mean better than 120x90s?

 

[milkloss]

What size is a quadrant then?

 

[scrubbuster]

What size is a quadrant then?

120x70 I think

 

[Hesston4860s]

What size is a quadrant then?

Quadrant is 120x70

120x90 is a Midi
80x90 is a Mini

 

[Cheesehead]

Hestons are ot that popular. They on the limit for hight on artics and a lot of straw choppers cant handle them . A good man on a quadrant baler is hard to beat

We had some 3x4x8 from a Krone and though I liked not having to fill the chopper so much compared to 4ft rounds the chopper didn't so much when it would try and inhale several wedges at once then it could be a pig to unblock.