SILAGE BALES? How do you do yours???

BalingMad

BALES BALES BALES

How do you do yours??

Home farm:
Day 1, Cut and ted.
Day 2, ted if needed, row in evening and bale chopped with fusion. Draw with keltec and stacked in yard with telehandler

Outside Farm:
Day 1, Cut and ted.
Day 2, ted if needed, row in evening and bale chopped with welger. Draw home with trailer, wrap in yard and stack with telehandler.

Muckit

I cut and dougal mine, better job by far Ted

Sam Kade

I cut am bale pm reason the weather is unpredictable. Normally I would cut day 1 and row and bale day 2.

jimmy G M

Similar tread on this topic.
http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?threadid=2056659647

Grass Hopper

We do the best bales by far......straight up the chute of the harvester.
No messing that way

Muckit

Grass Hopper wrote: »

We do the best bales by far......straight up the chute of the harvester.
No messing that way

I'd be inclined to agree. I'm still relatively young, but I don't get any enjoyment anymore out of bouncing around inside in a tractor for a day (or two)...... Bringing them in then like eggs and still getting pin holes here and there.... messing around with tape on damp bales after a shower.... I find the whole experience very frustrating :mad: Not to mention the stress of trying to get a few fine days together to wilt (which you have absolutely no control over). And don't get me started on the big pile of wet wraps that will be strewn around the yard next winter......

Lesson learnt this year. Give me a few sheets of old mucky polythene, nettle stings and black hands anyday!! All done in a few hours and not a drop of my own diesel used. By Christ it'I be pit all the way for me next year.

Muckit

Come back pit silage all is forgiven. I'I never complain about opening a bench on a cold wet January night again!!

vanderbadger

Muckit wrote: »

I'd be inclined to agree. I'm still relatively young, but I don't get any enjoyment anymore out of bouncing around inside in a tractor for a day (or two)...... Bringing them in then like eggs and still getting pin holes here and there.... messing around with tape on damp bales after a shower.... I find the whole experience very frustrating :mad: Not to mention the stress of trying to get a few fine days together to wilt (which you have absolutely no control over). And don't get me started on the big pile of wet wraps that will be strewn around the yard next winter......

Lesson learnt this year. Give me a few sheets of old mucky polythene, nettle stings and black hands anyday!! All done in a few hours and not a drop of my own diesel used. By Christ it'I be pit all the way for me next year.

you will hardly buy the bale lifter so ?

Muckit

vanderbadger wrote: »

you will hardly buy the bale lifter so ?

Oh it'I be bought alright. Baled silage is ideal for taking out strong paddocks;) Just not for main crop... for me anyways.

Handy to have a few at start and beginning of the winter

foreman450

How ye all. Im thinking of buying a baler and wrapper for doing my own bales. Does anyone have any idea how many bales i would get out of 3000 metres of net. Have 2 tractors a wilter. Trying to work out if it would pay me to do them myself. Doing about 400 bales a year. Had a pit. Never again.

Sam Kade

foreman450 wrote: »

How ye all. Im thinking of buying a baler and wrapper for doing my own bales. Does anyone have any idea how many bales i would get out of 3000 metres of net. Have 2 tractors a wilter. Trying to work out if it would pay me to do them myself. Doing about 400 bales a year. Had a pit. Never again.

What was wrong with the pit When you start baling you will be baling all summer long especially in wet years like this, on top of that you will have breakdowns and trouble trying to find help when needed. Even if you do end up saving money you will have to pay a third of it in tax.

Grass Hopper

foreman450 wrote: »

How ye all. Im thinking of buying a baler and wrapper for doing my own bales. Does anyone have any idea how many bales i would get out of 3000 metres of net. Have 2 tractors a wilter. Trying to work out if it would pay me to do them myself. Doing about 400 bales a year. Had a pit. Never again.

If your having that much trouble with pit,change contractor or have a good long look at how you cover it.
Either is to blame for waste.
I have yet to see a pit with more waste tham bales :rolleyes:

bogman_bass

change the contractor making your bales then:D

Grass Hopper

bogman_bass wrote: »

change the contractor making your bales then:D

If I wanted a lucky bag I'd buy one,their cheaper

Pacoa

I used to do my own bales, about 400 a year as well. Now im thinking of building a pit . Still waiting for my first cut to be done by contractor at the momment. The machinery cost me bout 10 euro a bale alone. Another 4 or 5 for plastic net and diesel so thats 15 a bale. Saw the light last year and sold the gear. Miss it now though

BalingMad

Pacoa wrote: »

I used to do my own bales, about 400 a year as well. Now im thinking of building a pit . Still waiting for my first cut to be done by contractor at the momment. The machinery cost me bout 10 euro a bale alone. Another 4 or 5 for plastic net and diesel so thats 15 a bale. Saw the light last year and sold the gear. Miss it now though

Oh dear, that really dampens my progress to buying a wrapper, then a baler. Alot of people say, its handy to be able to do it yourself at a drop of a hat. But I just think we all love machinery

Juniorhurler

BalingMad wrote: »

Oh dear, that really dampens my progress to buying a wrapper, then a baler. Alot of people say, its handy to be able to do it yourself at a drop of a hat. But I just think we all love machinery

I used to do a bit of baling and slurry work. I loved machinery at the start but by jaysus do I hate it now. No fun lying under a tractor in the wet fixing stuff on the hoof.

maidhc

BalingMad wrote: »

Oh dear, that really dampens my progress to buying a wrapper, then a baler. Alot of people say, its handy to be able to do it yourself at a drop of a hat. But I just think we all love machinery

Between 2003 - 2012 I reckon machinery cost us well under €1 a bale for approx 800 bales a year.

Breakdowns on the wrapper totalled about 10 split pins until 2010 when I bit the bullit and rebuilt it, which cost about €1000. Baler about €200 per annum in parts.

I confess though that i do love fixing machines, and will happily fool about in the shed until 11pm and I think it might be impractical to pay a mechanic to maintain old gear.

Spend the bones of €5000 rebuilding a JD 1360 and a further €5000 on buying a JD 575 baler this year, so we will revisit costs again in a few years!