Train wheels
- Thread starter dazza b
- Start date
- Location
- Ballyclare Northern Ireland
Oh sweet jesus, the amount of trouble some people go to just to make dung. Although very efficient when you think about it as they have effectively removed the cow from the equation.
Do you really think so , if the clamp man does his job right and they make a good job on pit and well sheeted up ,there is no reason why that silage won’t be any different to having 1,000,000 squids of tackle in field , plenty good silage made 30/50 years ago like that and with Kidd single flail with a 4 wheel trailer behind and drag it about with old 10/60 Nuffield , and pushed in with 990 brown , it’s the yellow guy in the sky quality grass and good clamping what make silage ,the bit in the middle that conveys the grass to the pit is irrelevant ,whether trailed, wagon, sp ,bales or horse and cart ,
- Location
- Ballyclare Northern Ireland
Ok, my bad. Maybe I'm being judgemental and presumptuous but my conclusion had feck all to do with the age and value of their machinery.
It was based more on the quality of the sward and the expectation that if their attitude to preparation, maintenance, safety, timeliness and attention to detail is carried through to the ensiling process I don't hold out much hope for the D value of the finished product. This thread began in the subject of compaction techniques on the pit, don't see much evidence of that as the buckrake man disappears over a big ol' lump.
So to recap, I ain't no snob and would you be happy to let them put in your winter fodder?
michael N123
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Someone will proberly spend a hour rolling before they sheet up and it’ll come out the pit some as any other
To make quality silage, one must first remove engine bonnet panels, and chuck in the hedge.
- Location
- Acton Scott, South Shropshire
No, sorry it won’t! If that’s how it’s put in it will very likely be full of air pockets and whilst you may not be able to tell by looking at it, the feed value will have been diminished
Think the bonnet panels had to be removed on the old Renault due to the exhaust pipe being broken or rotted through somewhere before it gets to the stack,had one like it once but I welded up the pipe rather than remove the bonnet panels,bought it like that , was awfully black under the bonnet though!
michael N123
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By the looks of that grass there wasn’t much feed value to set off with
There whole silage outfit won’t of cost more than a new loading shovel
- Location
- Holderness
I would struggle to find anyone that would want to drive on that outfit. At least once the first few hours novelty had worn off
DaveJ
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- Location
- Montgomeryshire
fiat 9090
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- Location
- co offaly eire
maybe better and if my memory is correct a lot more fun i enjoyed silage a lot more drawing in with a ford 4000
fiat 9090
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- Location
- co offaly eire
i could
when i sold up my business which had a brand new self propelled , i did a week with a local farmer a ford 7810 and a kidd double chop i was far happier, there are sum things money cant buy
- Location
- Showery S.E. IRL
They didn't remove any panels off the Nash.They chucked it all in the hedge.Some classics sentenced to death with those lads.I drove with a similar outfit many moons ago.There was a feeling of achievement getting up on a heap of crap in the morning,driving the crap out of it for 16 hours and saying to the boss at the end of the day"I didn't wreck it,I'll try again tomorrow".To make quality silage, one must first remove engine bonnet panels, and chuck in the hedge.
Milkcow365
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- Location
- Sw Scotland
Has anyone got train wheels for
holywell farmer
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- Location
- holywell, north wales
The machinery looks like could break down at a moments notice!
for what?
how many you after?
multi power
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- Location
- pembrokeshire
In my experience the compactor is a good thing, AS LONG AS YOU KEEP THE ARMS UP
A big simple weight would be a lot cheaper
A big simple weight would be a lot cheaper
davidroberts30
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- Location
- pembrokeshire
Exactly
Think rolling a grass field with 600 tyres on the tractor and a 10ft flat roller
In good going nothing marks and field is rolled
Then you come to a soft spot and the tractor sinks in 6 inches but the roller stays on the surface as its spreading its weight over 3m
- Location
- East Sussex
I get what you’re saying but they’re not going to a £22k bill when it does!