Straw Baling

[Speedstar]

I presume he looking to buy straw by the ac/ha and move it on

If he thinks he can make money buying straw and baling and selling it he is a mug ?
Unless the straw is for next to nothing there is nothing in it best money we made was to sell all the balers and chaser

 

[d williams]

If he thinks he can make money buying straw and baking and selling it he is a mug ?
Unless the straw is for next to nothing there is nothing in it best money we made was to sell all the balers and chaser

If you were baking it that’s where you may have gone wrong ???

 

[Speedstar]

If you were baking it that’s where you may have gone wrong ???

Phone though that was what your did with it
Now edited correct

 

[Bullring]

Have you had no rain in the last two days?

Hardly a drop, had a brief half hour shower 2 days ago that was dried up again few hours later but that is about it since early mid March, eastly winds and hot sunshine is limiting growth, silage crops will be well down unless we get rain soon. May is looking wet though on the long range forecast.

 

[glasshouse]

Thats quite light for 120x90 bales
Loading out here from last harvest and 120x90 averaging about 550Kg/Bale (Claas baler)

How to feck your baler, get the weight up to 450kg

 

[An Gof]

How to feck your baler, get the weight up to 450kg

Contractor baling for me ...... but he knows we monitor bale weights ......

 

[puntabrava]

Contractor baling for me ...... but he knows we monitor bale weights ......

What do your winter crops look like then, I have seen lots of weather ravaged fields in Devon/ Cornwall.

 

[ILovebaling]

How to feck your baler, get the weight up to 450kg

I know he's saying a claas baler but big bale South reckoned a massey 2270 would get 400-420kg and a 2270xd would be around 500kg. At I believe they said 11% moisture.

 

[ILovebaling]

If he thinks he can make money buying straw and baling and selling it he is a mug [emoji23]
Unless the straw is for next to nothing there is nothing in it best money we made was to sell all the balers and chaser

Mostly I just bale for customers but I do sell some. And financially I'd say I'm doing pretty well thanks for the concern. Not bad for a man and his dad who are 'just cowboys' according to some of the big boys. Never advertise and seem to be busy enough all year around with various jobs.

 

[Derrick Hughes]

60 dry quadrants . 370kg eqivelant to 513 kg in a 120.90

 

[glasshouse]

Its easy to get heavy bales if you bale it damp
If i took the pressure up to500kg for a 120-90
There would be strings pinging all over the place

 

[Derrick Hughes]

Its easy to get heavy bales if you bale it damp
If i took the pressure up to500kg for a 120-90
There would be strings pinging all over the place

Sorry but you are wrong . My main suplier never bales under 500 kg . Thats with a hd baler mind . They would read no higher than 13% and he bales a hell of a lot , that straw on the ticket would be 10%

 

[glasshouse]

I know he's saying a claas baler but big bale South reckoned a massey 2270 would get 400-420kg and a 2270xd would be around 500kg. At I believe they said 11% moisture.

And how long does the baler last at that pressure

 

[An Gof]

Its easy to get heavy bales if you bale it damp
If i took the pressure up to500kg for a 120-90
There would be strings pinging all over the place

Strings are all perfect on my bales ?

 

[glasshouse]

Strings are all perfect on my bales ?

On what baler?

 

[Chae1]

And how long does the baler last at that pressure

I find they run better at high load. Strings come off knotters better. More tension on everything.

 

[An Gof]

On what baler?

Claas

 

[robbie]

My mate in Norfolk has an old 80 x70 4 string baler and can get close on 20 ton on an artic . His straw is always dry

Is that roger by any chance????

 

[puntabrava]

Claas

Your very lucky that your contractor owns the only 120x90 Claas Baler to put out a decent bale weight, every one got rid of them for producing soft bales unreliably up this way.

 

[puntabrava]

I find they run better at high load. Strings come off knotters better. More tension on everything.

Used to be a dream to get out of a thin barley crop (not that you probably see many of those up there) and into some wheat, you need the flakes going through to push the knots of the billhooks well. Was like night and day.