Stacking silage/haylage bales

[DeeGee]

Always stacked our dry haylage bales three high (conventionally in a pyramid, not as baked bean cans). Bottom bales don't seem to flatten much, but was considering going to four layers. How many layers do people safely stack without problems if the bales are solid dryish haylage? Bales are wrapped with six layers of film.

 

[Thick Farmer]

If they're dry you can stack four high. I think we traditionally stopped at 3 because the loader wouldn't lift any higher!

 

[Derrick Hughes]

If you stack 4 high I believe the wrap warenty I'd void

 

[neilo]

I'm disappointed. Reading the thread title, I was expecting a heated argument about which way bales MUST be stacked.

I was only thinking the other day, that we hadn't had one of those this year.

 

[Thick Farmer]

If you stack 4 high I believe the wrap warenty I'd void

There's warranty on wrap?

 

[Cooper3075]

Yes if they split and stacked right they should stand the cost on wrap we used anyway contractor I worked for had quite a few that split one year they came out and looked at stack then payed or credited on next years wrap

 

[Thick Farmer]

Yes if they split and stacked right they should stand the cost on wrap we used anyway contractor I worked for had quite a few that split one year they came out and looked at stack then payed or credited on next years wrap

What about the cost of the silage that was lost?

 

[Cooper3075]

I'm not 100% but I think they covered that was about 20 bales ish on 2 different farms both wraped off same pallet of wrap was few years ago now though

 

[DeeGee]

Seems like three high generally is the limit then? Not worth risking a lot of damaged lower bales at £30 a time, though may try just a few at four high to see if it might work.

 

[Grassman]

4 layers for haylage. Forget it!!!

 

[DRC]

Round or square ?

 

[LEAMHEAD]

We stack four high,five foot rounds of silage.next door five high on four foots, think we only stacked three high before as we ran out of reach.

 

[GTB]

Four high is OK with dry bales. Max of three layers of wet stuff and the bottom layer still goes flat.

 

[Boohoo]

Always stack them like sausage rolls never like tins of beans and the wrap won't split however high you go

 

[grumpy]

There's warranty on wrap?

yes you complain,they say feck off

 

[DrDunc]

yes you complain,they say feck off

Actually, I complained about silotite stuff a couple of years ago. A bod came out, measured balewrap overlap, pointed out a missing spring on the wrapper which meant pre stretch was at a minimum, and a slight (I hadn't noticed before) bend in the angle of the wrap holder that was causing an uneven overlap......

All very useful info and improved wrapping and consequently bale quality after I fixed the wrapper......

Then he told me to fek off

 

[rob1]

yes you complain,they say feck off

not always, we had a pay out a few years ago when the makers put their hand up to a fault, makes a nice change for a firm to admit to a problem and more likely to be dealt with again

 

[Nearly]

4 layers for haylage. Forget it!!!

Never catch on?
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[Clever Dic]

3 bales on a pallet and 2 pallets high.No problems.

 

[grumpy]

3 bales on a pallet and 2 pallets high.No problems. View attachment 63096View attachment 63097

holy moly thats what i envision hell to be like