Wagon silage what is long draw

QA1

Do all bales here
but silage is 5.5 miles round trip would this be consider a long draw for wagons local fella has 2 wagons roughly how long to do 40 acre with wagons

Cran

QA1 wrote: »

Do all bales here
but silage is 5.5 miles round trip would this be consider a long draw for wagons local fella has 2 wagons roughly how long to do 40 acre with wagons

Guy beside me does a 6 mile draw 6 there & 6 back with silage trailers, around 40 acres as well. Contractor used 4 trailers this year and seemed to work well, had 3 last year and jag was idle a good bit waiting.

jaymla627

QA1 wrote: »

Do all bales here
but silage is 5.5 miles round trip would this be consider a long draw for wagons local fella has 2 wagons roughly how long to do 40 acre with wagons

A few hours if wagons are high capacity 37m3 machines like a krone 370, type of crop makes a huge differance too, if drawing nice leafy stuff thats not dog heavy the wagons will easily be bringing a acre plus a load, if your talking about stemmy suckler type silage thats been growing for 12 plus weeks, they would struggle to bring half a acre....
Contractor here will easily clear 50 acres a day plus and half the draw is a five mile round trip

farisfat

Would anyone know the going hourly rate for wagon silage.
Theirs a mix of long and short draw here.

Grueller

Cran wrote: »

Guy beside me does a 6 mile draw 6 there & 6 back with silage trailers, around 40 acres as well. Contractor used 4 trailers this year and seemed to work well, had 3 last year and jag was idle a good bit waiting.

Loads of draws around here of up to 10 miles. Could be 10 trailers on them though.

9935452

Grueller wrote: »

Loads of draws around here of up to 10 miles. Could be 10 trailers on them though.

Contractor here has a 30 mile draw each way of 30 acres.
They put everything on it including lorrys and get all the other contractors to help