Using heavy green sheets on pit

[valtraman]

I’m doing my silage pit with the green sheets in top of plastic. Haven’t used them before . We use 8m wide sheets and sheet in stages across pit so have order 8m green top sheet to suit. Am I better to sheet in line with bottom sheet or alternate it so the join underneath is well covered if u get me ?

 

[Getnthair]

I’m doing my silage pit with the green sheets in top of plastic. Haven’t used them before . We use 8m wide sheets and sheet in stages across pit so have order 8m green top sheet to suit. Am I better to sheet in line with bottom sheet or alternate it so the join underneath is well covered if u get me ?

Keep them in line with each other. We can sheet a pit quite quickly using these green sheets - we use 8m widths too. You can get a bit of weight onto the bottom sheet - from the green sheet - and then have a safe surface to walk over without fear of puncturing the bottom sheet.

It is much easier if the bottom and top sheets are in step. We will pile tyres on the last sheet - lay the next one, top and bottom, throw the tyres over the back half and bring tyres up onto the front half, and pile extra on top for the next sheet. Then repeat...........

If you alternate them you will have to lay out sheets, roll them back halfway - to get tyres on - then pull them forward again - and so on.

In windy conditions we will lay a bottom sheet and then drag a green sheet over it, from the back - having already laid it out on top of the last sheet. In that way you push any air out of the bottom sheet as you drag the top one over. Then throw some tyres on to hold everything in place and you can go back and open the join to tidy it up - if needs be.

Of course this is an open earth-bank pit with tyres stored on the ground. You might have an inside pit with the tyres stacked neatly to the side? However I'd still think it would be easier to lay the sheets in matching pairs.

 

[DaveGrohl]

You'll work it out. It's not rocket science. We don't get a choice as our pits are too big to use "matching" sheet sizes.