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<blockquote data-quote="Andy Nash" data-source="post: 7027613" data-attributes="member: 81262"><p>My father did it once or twice in the sixties too.</p><p>From what I remember the grass was buckraked on to a 1000 gauge plastic ground sheet with a perforated alkathene plastic pipe laid on top which was led out of the clamp and connected to the milking machine pump. The top sheet was tucked under the ground sheet and the vacuum pump switched on for several hours.</p><p>I don’t think there was much need to roll the clamp, because the atmospheric pressure of 7.5 psi over the entire top sheet caused It to compact fairly dramatically. I don’t remember any particular problem with spoilage, but it was long ago. We stopped doing it when he built a silo out of Dr Beeching’s railway sleepers.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Andy Nash, post: 7027613, member: 81262"] My father did it once or twice in the sixties too. From what I remember the grass was buckraked on to a 1000 gauge plastic ground sheet with a perforated alkathene plastic pipe laid on top which was led out of the clamp and connected to the milking machine pump. The top sheet was tucked under the ground sheet and the vacuum pump switched on for several hours. I don’t think there was much need to roll the clamp, because the atmospheric pressure of 7.5 psi over the entire top sheet caused It to compact fairly dramatically. I don’t remember any particular problem with spoilage, but it was long ago. We stopped doing it when he built a silo out of Dr Beeching’s railway sleepers. [/QUOTE]
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