Where to buy small sized white plastic for bales ?

moy83

I think I asked this last year but would any of ye know where I could buy a few rolls of wrap for the small square bales of haylage ? I cant find any around here .
Mchales will only sell me a full pallet which is way too much for me .

Is it ok to use black plastic on haylage or should it be white ?

Thanks in advance

reilig

moy83 wrote: »

I think I asked this last year but would any of ye know where I could buy a few rolls of wrap for the small square bales of haylage ? I cant find any around here .
Mchales will only sell me a full pallet which is way too much for me .

Is it ok to use black plastic on haylage or should it be white ?

Thanks in advance

Black is 100% for haylage!!

What size rolls are you looking for ? Is it the 500mm ones?

Both Silawrap and Volac supply 500mm rolls so any dealer that supplies these brands should eb able to get it for you!

JohnBoy

are you making it for yourself or for sale?

horsey people are funny folk and once they take a notion it's hard to change them.

if you're selling it to horsey folk then you should try your best to get white or green.


Black is for smelly silage for smelly cows in their minds.

kowtow

JohnBoy wrote: »

Black is for smelly silage for smelly cows in their minds.

+100 !

I just checked with my teenage daughter and that's exactly what she said.

green is the preferred colour.

Now I better go and move her ponies which I have inadvertently left in the strip behind the cows, to clean up the weeds.

moy83

Its 350mm I'm looking for , the 500 hundred is too wide to fit snugly and I would have to change the cogs on the wrapper to use it aswell .

Any dealer around me said they will only order a full pallet because there is no one else buying it .
I might have it sorted though , a friend of a friend knows a lad making them and he thinks he will give me three or four rolls , so fingers crossed .

They like the white plastic alright , but if the black is just as good Im not too bothered about what people like , they would have used pink bales last year if they got them
What is the reason that black is 100% for haylage ? If it is black stuff I use it would be nice to give a reason why .

kowtow

moy83 wrote: »

What is the reason that black is 100% for haylage ? If it is black stuff I use it would be nice to give a reason why .

€8 a bale would be a good enough reason, if it were me.

Seriously, you'll sell less (if they have any choice at all).

Remember that when a nice girl (*present company excepted ) looks at black plastic, she sees a bin liner.

It reminds her too much of work.

moy83

I made about 80 bales this evening . Half black ,half white so we will see which is any better in a few weeks when I open them for a look .
I got a local lad to cut a half roll down the middle with a lathe and it was fine but then he tried a full thickness roll and it melted about 40mm either side of the cut so I had to keep trimming it off . A bit of sh1tehawking but it got them covered .
Ill have to sort out a supply if I make a few more