How's the silage ground traveling this year?
Grazed off? Slurry out? Fert spread?
Or is it like a bog at the moment, a good year for rewetting.
Hopefully,it's all for weanlings and finishing cattle
let us what how many bales you get to the acre. Have second fertilizer spread this week. Hoping to harvest it all at same stage as your own roughly 6weeks growing.
I’m going doing a second cut on ground that was reseeded last autumn and cut last week, would second cut silage have the same high quality as a first cut?
Hi lads I've a vicon fanex 763 tedder I bought 2nd hand last year when I'm tedding if I meet really heavy grass it stops rotating only grating if I lift it up she spins fine again until I meet really heavy grass again any ideas about it. I gave 6k for it
Could be better. Most likely less stem.
I wonder is the cogs badly worn inside the gearbox and skipping over each other when hitting heavy crop
Either that or the slip clutch is set too loose on pto
Is there a slip clutch on the pto shaft?
Could be slipping and the issue.
If it is not sure if there's a way of adjusting but then it could just be a call for a new shaft with a slip clutch.
second done
In the same both myself with a new lay I hope to cut it at roughly 6weeks growth and hope to get it over 70dmd.
if you did it should be great stuff, how many bales would you be hoping to get to the acre?
Would be hoping for 5-6 per acre after tedding out i'd be happy with that but we see put on 80 units of N last week
very straight lines - obviously not on the beer last night 😂😂
or watching you tube while driving…
All tedder should have clutches in them in case the rotors are jammed
Are they difficult to adjust
If we have it on the ground that long it's because weather broke.
We do try to get it dry though so we'd tend to leave it until the second day. As in mow on a Monday afternoon/evening and then start baling it on Wednesday.
The issue with rowing it up too early is that with the big rakes, it doesn't really wilt as well. And if you row it the day before, you might get a dew. If you get a heavy shower, you might find yourself having to kick it out again.
How much is anybody paying a farmer for second cut fertilised bales out of field, either paying farmer for all or paying contractor myself. Seen quotes here on previous pages but can't find them now.
The raking debate is an interesting one. I remember hearing a funny story a few years ago from our contractor when he was putting out our slurry. They were very busy one day bailing, lots hay on that day too (they would have had at least 3 balers on the go at the time). One job, probably 20+ acres of hay in one field, the farmer spent many hours rowing it up with the hay bob, only for the lads to arrive with the rake ahead of the baler.
Maybe the farmer did a great job rowing it up. It would dry plenty in the row and less so from the time the contractor raked it in front of baler. Are all the contractors concerned with what they bale and what condition it's in when baled.
hay stood up in a row after a haybob dries great. Then we’d fook 4 or 5 of them together with the rake for the baler to gobble up.
Fodder seems to be back everywhere around here with bales been fed. Second cuts won’t break any records. Shortages loom.
yea true, him rowing with the hay bob was no disadvantage to the crop, but he just seen it as a waste of his time and diesel.
Relaxing on the Joe holliers getting notifications when contractor comes and goes Be baled & wrapped later.
I was in a yard this morning and 2 loads of bales going straight for feeding on a dairy farm. Lads seriously overstocked are under pressure. They should reduce numbers
Had a local dairy man looking to buy my second cut this morning. I said what am I supposed to feed my cattle with in winter ... His response you don't have that many you're first cut would be plenty for you 🙄🙄... He is presently feeding bales but shows only care about themselves....
Why just not tell the greedy ego dairy farmer to sell cattle an awful bit of them are gone seriously arrogant
Talk about belittling you. Id wouldn't pay any heat to people like that. He got himself into that mess. Crazy carry-on where you have to buy in silage now a days.
What an ass
Got 20 bales last week off 3 1/2 acres. Normally get 30. Serious lack of growth in the first half of the season
I’m promised 20 acres of second off a man I do a good bit of work for to reduce the bill. Dairy man next door to him has been into him twice looking for it. Says it makes no sense as he’s nearer. I’ve 30 acres of fodder beet that has a lot of eyes on it.
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