What’s this barn dried hay I keep seeing advertised

[7610 super q]

Think Derrick gets his hay from Fortnum & Mason........

 

[Pistonbroke]

I can’t make hay in fecking July/augest up here

We rent some ground that's basically a mound,so wherever the wind or sun is coming from it's in it. 48 hours from mowing and it's baled,probably tedded twice

 

[Derrick Hughes]

[emoji23] only available at yours truly
Where else could you buy hay over 15 % P and very high D Value . As @ El Sid says . The comedian strikes again [emoji23]
Got a shed full of it

 

[Fubar]

Its another example of the RHI gravy train.
Bale the hay wet, stick it on a drying floor and get paid a subsidy to burn 'eco friendly '
woodchip to dry it.

 

[Derrick Hughes]

Its another example of the RHI gravy train.
Bale the hay wet, stick it on a drying floor and get paid a subsidy to burn 'eco friendly '
woodchip to dry it.

Dried grass and lucerne have be made for centuries by artificial drying but using diesel .
I have no idea about the economics of it but its producing one hell of a feed

 

[jendan]

Dried grass and lucerne have be made for centuries by artificial drying but using diesel .
I have no idea about the economics of it but its producing one hell of a feed

How much £ ?

 

[4course]

simple enough to do a coil of drainage pipe every few course ( exact spacing is a trade secret) a 1 1/2 m solid pipe then connect a fan from a grain pedestal and move it to other pipes regularly ( another trade secret ) and there you go .ps its not rocket science but it works
oh and another ps most would be amazed at the amount of moisture reduction and conditioning effect you can achieve with the pipe laid on a grain store floor, just a bit of of a nuisance chopping it and retriveing with the bucket when outloading

 

[S J H]

Its another example of the RHI gravy train.
Bale the hay wet, stick it on a drying floor and get paid a subsidy to burn 'eco friendly '
woodchip to dry it.

I was digging a hole near an biomass pipe the other week, ground was steaming from the heat, and they’re being paid to generate it.

When will they realise that the same scheme bought down a government.

 

[Derrick Hughes]

How much £ ?

Pm me your location if interested

 

[Devil's advocate]

simple enough to do a coil of drainage pipe every few course ( exact spacing is a trade secret) a 1 1/2 m solid pipe then connect a fan from a grain pedestal and move it to other pipes regularly ( another trade secret ) and there you go .ps its not rocket science but it works
oh and another ps most would be amazed at the amount of moisture reduction and conditioning effect you can achieve with the pipe laid on a grain store floor, just a bit of of a nuisance chopping it and retriveing with the bucket when outloading

Are you drying hay in bulk or bales

 

[Formatted]

This sort of stuff should be illegal; if the taxpayer knew they were paying a millionaire to dry cut grass via renewable heat incentive there would be uproar.

 

[Badshot]

Barn dried hay is rocket fuel as far as hay goes.
Doing it with little bales wasn't much fun as they weighed a lot when going In the barn.
Lighter on their way out, but not that much, but all squishy due to moisture loss.

 

[matthew]

No wrap. Baled pre ideal moisture for hay and then placed on a mesh type floor and forced heat and air blown through them until the desired moisture content is reached. Hence bales have lost moisture so there for softer than the baled pressure .

Its another example of the RHI gravy train.
Bale the hay wet, stick it on a drying floor and get paid a subsidy to burn 'eco friendly '
woodchip to dry it.

We did this in the early 70s with a hoooge electric fan, blowing under a false floor.
As said, bales were very high moisture when brought in, and importantly, stacked on their edges to let the air be forced through.

No heat needed. The fan blows the 'heat' out of the bale itself. Another method was a top sucker fan, pulling air through a stack via an open shaft. Both very labour intensive, but both gave a superb product.

 

[Sid]

We did this in the early 70s with a hoooge electric fan, blowing under a false floor.
As said, bales were very high moisture when brought in, and importantly, stacked on their edges to let the air be forced through.

No heat needed. The fan blows the 'heat' out of the bale itself. Another method was a top sucker fan, pulling air through a stack via an open shaft. Both very labour intensive, but both gave a superb product.

Exactly.
The old lister fans.

Dad use to borrow a neighbours bale trailer and him ours.

His was always loaded with green hay waiting to go into shed.
"Course you can borrow it, but you'll have to unload it first"...f@#$ was Dads words when he had put phone down

 

[Cab-over Pete]

Made it on the first place I worked once I left school, it was fantastic stuff.

Dad bought the tractor driven Lister fan from a local sale years ago, not really sure why. It sat in the shed for years, then one year he had baled a block of land for hay into mini Hesston bales (80x50 I think) which then all got wet overnight.

We stacked them reasonably loose under the Dutch barn with a tunnel built down the middle and installed the fan. He had it going day and night for a few days. The water driven out was amazing, it was running down the inside of the curved tin roof.