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Wagon silage what is long draw

  • 02-07-2020 11:35PM
    #1
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 122 ✭✭


    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


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,285 ✭✭✭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.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,596 ✭✭✭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


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 355 ✭✭farisfat


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


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,678 ✭✭✭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.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,143 ✭✭✭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


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