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<blockquote data-quote="CDavidLance" data-source="post: 7917836" data-attributes="member: 154325"><p>On a plastic sheet?</p><p>What dimensions?</p><p>When Vacuum Silage came to the UK in the 1960's the demonstration was on a sheet, using tipping trailers, a three point rear buckrake and handwork. No telehandlers then, but they might be quite useful now because of their reach without going over a sheet. The rear buckraking had to go over the sheet and a lot of people found that too difficult, made a hash of it and gave up. </p><p>Telescopic buckrake equipment could make a useful contribution to a modern approach, but there would still be an appreciable amount of handwork to get a distribution that would pump down to a domed clamp. A two person job with one on the stack guiding the other and doing a bit of fork work (and a lot of trusting!) and the other one on a tele-buckrake could work.</p><p>If that all sounds too impossible then square bales into a pod approach may be quicker and more mechanised.</p><p>Yet another consideration, I think I'd better take a load of photographs and measurements of the self-unloading forage trailer in case anybody wants to start producing it again. I wonder whether JF's blueprints still exist.</p><p>We need a contribution from somebody with experience of a telescopic buckrake on this, [USER=13288]@davidroberts30[/USER] ?</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="CDavidLance, post: 7917836, member: 154325"] On a plastic sheet? What dimensions? When Vacuum Silage came to the UK in the 1960's the demonstration was on a sheet, using tipping trailers, a three point rear buckrake and handwork. No telehandlers then, but they might be quite useful now because of their reach without going over a sheet. The rear buckraking had to go over the sheet and a lot of people found that too difficult, made a hash of it and gave up. Telescopic buckrake equipment could make a useful contribution to a modern approach, but there would still be an appreciable amount of handwork to get a distribution that would pump down to a domed clamp. A two person job with one on the stack guiding the other and doing a bit of fork work (and a lot of trusting!) and the other one on a tele-buckrake could work. If that all sounds too impossible then square bales into a pod approach may be quicker and more mechanised. Yet another consideration, I think I'd better take a load of photographs and measurements of the self-unloading forage trailer in case anybody wants to start producing it again. I wonder whether JF's blueprints still exist. We need a contribution from somebody with experience of a telescopic buckrake on this, [USER=13288]@davidroberts30[/USER] ? [/QUOTE]
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