Weighing pit silage.

minktrapper

How is this done. I don't have access to a diet feeder.

Muckit

You could cut out a block and bring it to local weigh bridge at feed mill or quarry. Or equally by the trailer load. Weigh empty ans weigh when full.

Are u planning on selling or buying pit silage by the tonne?

foxy farmer

45cu ft = 1 ton

Muckit

All depends on the dry matter of the silage. A shear grab is good to assess as juice will be dripping out of bottom of grab if DM is v low. You don't want to be buying water. Or just dry wring it in your hands.

minktrapper

foxy farmer wrote: »

45cu ft = 1 ton

I presume that figure is for silage of average DM. I am selling it. Anybody know how much it is making.

Water John

That would be prescision chop. Old double chop used to be around 50. I presume wagon would be that or higher.

blue5000

minktrapper wrote: »

How is this done. I don't have access to a diet feeder.

Weigh a full load is probably the best way. Count how many grabs went on it that way you'll get a good average figure for the weight of a grab. Silage can be denser at the bottom of a pit than the top, so try get a mix of grabs from top to bottom.

No idea on the price, maybe somewhere between what a fusion bale and a tonne of washed beet is making in the area? More important to get paid than what the actual price is.

minktrapper

I was hoping to sell the whole pit as one.

freedominacup

minktrapper wrote: »

I was hoping to sell the whole pit as one.

Length x width x av height in feet divided by 50.
For normal dm.

Keepgrowing

freedominacup wrote: »

Length x width x av height in feet divided by 50.
For normal dm.

If buying divide by 50
If selling divide by 45

Water John

You'd be arguing the price per tonne again after that. Two moving positions, the maths and the price. I'd tell you, keep it.
Would you going weighing all the bales, if that was the way it was?

K.G.

No harm to make up what it cost you before you go selling it

Waffletraktor

minktrapper wrote: »

How is this done. I don't have access to a diet feeder.

Ask local contractors they might have a weigh logger, very easy to use on a trailer.

K.G.

No harm to make out what the pit cost you first

freedominacup

minktrapper wrote: »

I was hoping to sell the whole pit as one.

Have you got it analysed? If I was buying it this would have a big bearing on what I would pay for it.

minktrapper

freedominacup wrote: »

Have you got it analysed? If I was buying it this would have a big bearing on what I would pay for it.

Yes.

freedominacup

minktrapper wrote: »

Yes.

Well then the value per tonne is easy to work out.

minktrapper

I suppose we will have a problem measuring it too.