Who covers your silage pit

mengele

Do you cover the silage out yourself or does the contractor do it? If its the contractor do they charge extra?

Icelandicseige

mengele wrote: »

Do you cover the silage out yourself or does the contractor do it? If its the contractor do they charge extra?

Anywhere I have seen it's done by the farmer

Grueller

Contractor here charges an extra €10 per acre. Here it is means me and me alone that covers it unfortunately.

GrasstoMilk

Contractor covers 90% of it with us. Dont think he charges extra tbh. Its standard procedure for him across every farm he does.
4 or 5 lads would do alot in 30 minutes where you'd give half a day or more on your own

Aravo

Farmer here. The contractor does move tyres with the loader before he leaves which makes things a bit easier. Not a nice job covering pit, but an important one all the same. Also, no silo walls here, so a lot more covering.

paddysdream

Around here most contractors will cover pit.Usually leave 1/2 lads and a loader for an hour or two although some pits can take 2/3 hours to cover.
Sometimes would leave pits for a day or two if rain coming or no picking up on and spend half a day doing 3/4 pits.
Its usually a case of doing it to hold onto work to be honest.No explicit charge and its a pain of a broken/busy time as harvester can have a fair bit in the pit by the time the loader arrives at the next job.

Cavanjack

We would be laughed at round here if I asked the contractor to cover our pit or even help us cover it. Also if there was rain coming and he was delayed coming to pick up my grass because he was helping someone down the road cover a pit it’d be his last time here.
Two men for A few hours will cover a large pit with tyres.

mr.stonewall

Cavanjack wrote: »

We would be laughed at round here if I asked the contractor to cover our pit or even help us cover it. Also if there was rain coming and he was delayed coming to pick up my grass because he was helping someone down the road cover a pit it’d be his last time here.
Two men for A few hours will cover a large pit with tyres.

They don't cover pits around our way. Locally 3 of us, give each other a hand covering each other's pits. Few cans with it helps

davidk1394

Contractors help cover the pits around here. Leave a loader and 3/4 men with the farmer for an hour/hour and a half.

whelan2

davidk1394 wrote: »

Contractors help cover the pits around here. Leave a loader and 3/4 men with the farmer for an hour/hour and a half.

Same here

visatorro

Does anyone throw the lad's a few note's for covering the pit? Contractor covers pit here most of the time unless they are under pressure. Would take me a week to fully cover pit on my own.

Panch18

Dare i mention it - GO BALES

Reggie.

Panch18 wrote: »

Dare i mention it - GO BALES

Only way. Hate pits

K.G.

Cavanjack wrote: »

We would be laughed at round here if I asked the contractor to cover our pit or even help us cover it. Also if there was rain coming and he was delayed coming to pick up my grass because he was helping someone down the road cover a pit it’d be his last time here.
Two men for A few hours will cover a large pit with tyres.

Exactly the same here.only heard of it happening once around here and unfortunately that.was when the farmers son passed.away the day of the silage.fellas still laugh at one fella locally that told the contractor "the plastic is in the house over there"

cosatron

Panch18 wrote: »

Dare i mention it - GO BALES

you took the words out my mouth.

Buford T. Justice XIX

Contractor does it here, either after finishing drawing or early the next morning before going onto the next client. Two men and myself and the loading shovel, about an hour and a half to fire the tyres around the top and I do the sides myself after.

Wouldn't manage without them covering tbh.

And bales, too much handling in them. The devils lucky bags as a religious neighbour calls them:P

Cavanjack

Panch18 wrote: »

Dare i mention it - GO BALES

Made around 600 of them last year and drew about 400 of them in myself. Give me a full day covering a pit any day

blue5000

Sometimes the contractor does it and other times I do it myself. I like to roll it myself for an hour with the tractor before covering it if I can. One year I even rolled the contractor's pit as he couldn't get near the walls of his pit with the loader as it's in a shed! But I think really he only wanted help covering his pit:D

Reggie.

blue5000 wrote: »

Sometimes the contractor does it and other times I do it myself. I like to roll it myself for an hour with the tractor before covering it if I can. One year I even rolled the contractor's pit as he couldn't get near the walls of his pit with the loader as it's in a shed! But I think really he only wanted help covering his pit:D

I reckon he just wanted to see the 110-90 go up the pit

davidk1394

I plan on doing wagon silage myself from next year on. Mow, shake it out and rake it myself. I don't think I could face into drawing a few hundred bales myself.

GrasstoMilk

Reggie. wrote: »

Only way. Hate pits

You obviously havent drawn enough bales yet!
600 here is enough. Rest goes in the pit. Much easier for dad to feed out of the pit instead of having to get up and down fron the tractor to open 12 bales to feed out

Reggie.

GrasstoMilk wrote: »

You obviously havent drawn enough bales yet!
600 here is enough. Rest goes in the pit. Much easier for dad to feed out of the pit instead of having to get up and down fron the tractor to open 12 bales to feed out

Used to haul over 5000 a year for contractors

Who2

There’s no contractor around me that I know of will cover the pit. I asked mine one year and I was told he couldn’t he had to get onto the next job and that I was the first to ever ask. Who’s your contractor Whelan? Pm if you don’t want posting it up.

erada

If there's one job worse than covering a silage pit, it's covering it again after the second cut.

einn32

We used cover a few pits when I worked with a contractor. Get some cash the odd time. It was mostly lay the plastic over, roll back and drop the tyres on top with the loader, spread them by hand. How long we stayed all depended on how busy we were. You could end being destroyed with crap if you weren't on the ball with tyres flying all over. The odd time someone would stay behind to roll the pit with a tractor. Usually got grub for it. I'm not sure if there was a fee.

I remember being told to leave one farm whilst covering a pit. Wind was up and the boys weren't interested. The plastic ended up wrapped around the haybarn. We were all told to F off!

K.G.

erada wrote: »

If there's one job worse than covering a silage pit, it's covering it again after the second cut.

In my youth i did 12 pits one year
I could fling a tyre around 60 feet back then.ah those were the days

Good loser

Heard of one man - ex rugby forward - who could throw lorry tyres like the rest of us threw car tyres.

Gods Gift

Could someone post the Hitler at silage video

Reggie.

This one

https://youtu.be/8tPOKgrUftM

Albert Johnson

Reggie. wrote: »

This one

https://youtu.be/8tPOKgrUftM

Haven't watched that in year's but I still lost it at "Tis a windy c#nt of a day and all". Reminds me of the rooting I'd be doing myself in those situations.

Cavanjack

erada wrote: »

If there's one job worse than covering a silage pit, it's covering it again after the second cut.

The worst part of it is the thoughts of doing it. When you are at it it’s not too bad. It’s just another job.

farmersfriend

GrasstoMilk wrote: »

Contractor covers 90% of it with us. Dont think he charges extra tbh. Its standard procedure for him across every farm he does.
4 or 5 lads would do alot in 30 minutes where you'd give half a day or more on your own

Same here