Tubeline wrapper

[fiat 9090]

Hi all I'm wondering does anyone use a tubeline wrapper to wrap their silage if so is there big savings to be made

 

[Hilly]

Hi all I'm wondering does anyone use a tubeline wrapper to wrap their silage if so is there big savings to be made

Space can be an issue.

 

[fiat 9090]

Space can be an issue.

If a person had a farm road and made it a bit wider say 200 mtrs long would that work

 

[Hilly]

If a person had a farm road and made it a bit wider say 200 mtrs long would that work

Yes or even just down the side , depends on how many bales but if you have measured up jobs a good un bales of straw in the end is what id do or a fully wrapped bale if you had some .

 

[daveydiesel1]

Bound to be half the wrap used

 

[Gav]

It is possible to make savings in wrap with the Tubeline machines as you aren’t wrapping the end of the bales. Savings can be made in time taken to wrap as well once you have a system in place. There’s now a laser guidance option on Tubeline machines to allow them to automatically keep parallel to walls and other rows of bales which may help with the space issue in some circumstances. There is a member on here who swapped to a Tubeline last year, will let him come forward if he so wishes.

 

[fiat 9090]

It is possible to make savings in wrap with the Tubeline machines as you aren’t wrapping the end of the bales. Savings can be made in time taken to wrap as well once you have a system in place. There’s now a laser guidance option on Tubeline machines to allow them to automatically keep parallel to walls and other rows of bales which may help with the space issue in some circumstances. There is a member on here who swapped to a Tubeline last year, will let him come forward if he so wishes.

That would be great thanks ,just a couple of questions does it use half the film of a standered wrapper and do square bales use less wrap than round bales per kilo of silage

 

[Ben B]

Our old Recce Tubeline from the '90s will use about 30% less plastic per round bale than the conventional individual wrapper. My uncle has a newer self-propelled Anderson X tractor and it uses probably 40% less plastic, but in my opinion, he has a little too much stretch so the wrap is a little thin. Space is an issue but if you have a long area it works well, changing rows is a hassle so the longer the better. If you can get someone to feed the bales to the person loading the wrapper we can do 60 odd bales hours you could probably do more if you had a decent wrapper. We wrapped squares years ago some brutes of bales to feed out I'm told.

 

[fiat 9090]

Our old Recce Tubeline from the '90s will use about 30% less plastic per round bale than the conventional individual wrapper. My uncle has a newer self-propelled Anderson X tractor and it uses probably 40% less plastic, but in my opinion, he has a little too much stretch so the wrap is a little thin. Space is an issue but if you have a long area it works well, changing rows is a hassle so the longer the better. If you can get someone to feed the bales to the person loading the wrapper we can do 60 odd bales hours you could probably do more if you had a decent wrapper. We wrapped squares years ago some brutes of bales to feed out I'm told.

The Anderson one looks the business , its just with wrap nearly double what it was 2 years ago it's well worth considering

 

[jamie]

I'm late to this thread but only just found it in a search. Had been using an old grays wrapper. It does the job, saves plastic and is fairly quick but needs 2 people and tractors to work it. Last time we used it we were managing 55 bales per hour.

This year we have a new tube line. It is better than old tubelines but far more complicated and so far less reliable. Getting 80 bales per hour with one man and tractor so saves a lot. Also getting 40 bales per roll of plastic with big bales which helps to be able to do too.

Hi all I'm wondering does anyone use a tubeline wrapper to wrap their silage if so is there big savings to be made