Train wheels

[ploughman1963]

I think there was a chap from Cornwall on here who managed to buy a consignment from Romania/Bulgaria?

 

[ploughman1963]

sum farmers roll the pit with a tractor while the loader is working i just tell them politely where to go no body should b up on the pit

We try to have a second tractor on the pit rolling alongside the tractor/front buckrake - forage wagon silage and our (tested) clamp consolidation is 750-900 kg/m3

 

[7610 super q]

Never an ore train derailment when you want one, is there ?

 

[onesiedale]

Try the Bombardier railway works at Crewe. Someone there will surely be responsible for scrapping the wheels. iirc they weigh in at around 250kg and the spindle to mount them on is another 250kg

 

[Bald Rick]

Just a thought out of left field... could a furrow press be used as a compactor especially if the frame was weighted?

 

[Speedstar]

why do farmers use compactors iv never seen one

Good Farmers & Good Contractors use Compactors to make the best top quality silage for there animals

 

[davidroberts30]

Just a thought out of left field... could a furrow press be used as a compactor especially if the frame was weighted?

@boyo

 

[Kevtherev]

Because there pushing up with a small loader or a tractor , all 5-9 ton machines that can't roll the pit properly.

Filled properly in layers and rolled accordingly.
Can be done with any tractor.
(We’ve been making pit silage since 1964)
Fordson majors and MF 35 was all there was.

 

[Horn&corn]

Just a thought out of left field... could a furrow press be used as a compactor especially if the frame was weighted?

We tried a heavyish lemken press this year and it didn’t roll at all.

 

[Drillman]

would the loader not do it ,you can actually over roll a pit if grass is wet

I’ve no idea to be honest. My only buck raking experience was when I was given a fergie 2640 with one on the back. it was ok wen the drag chopper was going but when that blew up an a big Claas sp appeared instead I was soon buried.

2nd cut I took my tractor an hooked onto a trailer instead....

 

[james ds]

Filled properly in layers and rolled accordingly.
Can be done with any tractor.
(We’ve been making pit silage since 1964)
Fordson majors and MF 35 was all there was.

Correct there was 3-4 acres a day going in . The problem now is too much going in too quickly and not getting the time to roll it.

 

[Mursal]

@Bloders has an insider for train wheels, apparently

 

[fiat 9090]

Good Farmers & Good Contractors use Compactors to make the best top quality silage for there animals

over here the loader does it perfectly no waste good firm pits

 

[fiat 9090]

I’ve no idea to be honest. My only buck raking experience was when I was given a fergie 2640 with one on the back. it was ok wen the drag chopper was going but when that blew up an a big Claas sp appeared instead I was soon buried.

2nd cut I took my tractor an hooked onto a trailer instead....

yea and a handier job my neck used to kill me when i had buckrake on tractor

 

[james ds]

Good Farmers & Good Contractors use Compactors to make the best top quality silage for there animals

You only need a compactor when you have a toy on the pit , put one real machine to do the job instead of paying two men with two machines to do the same job.

 

[james ds]

over here the loader does it perfectly no waste good firm pits

There's not one compactor working in Ireland , and we make the best of silage . All contractors here have 15-16 ton loaders doing the job , all done by one man.

 

[Will 1594]

And the willy waving starts again , mines bigger than yours , Different courses need different horses , opinions are like arseholes ,James ,we all have one

 

[Kevtherev]

And it starts all over again...

 

[james ds]

And the willy waving starts again , mines bigger than yours , Different courses need different horses , opinions are like arseholes ,James ,we all have one

There's no Willy waving , somebody keeps saying you can't make good silage without one , I'm saying it doesn't matter how you compact silage as long as you do compact silage , here we all use big loaders and they work perfect , if you have a tractor pushing up and it hasn't time to roll the pit due to too much grass coming in then an extra tractor rolling is needed .

 

[DaveGrohl]

What are you trying to achieve with this compactor exactly? Trying to get 1000t into 400t pit as above? Or minimise top waste? If it's the latter then sheeting properly will do the job, end of. If it's the first then you have a problem.....