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.
How do you find the mesh and gravel bags. I so love tyres to cover a pit after today😞😞
the mesh is great. You done need any where near the amount of tyres on the pit. The oxygen barrier under the black plastic is a super job too. But I would buy the lorry sidewalls over the gravel bags tbh. The gravel bags get burst if you don’t mind them
Food for thought for the 2nd cut. Thank you
Gravel bags also have plenty of use I've found when the pit isn't in action. Ended up buying plenty more for this reason
MMaDe a change to the way we cover the pit this year.we put the old covers on first and the new cover on last .we re very exposed to wind here and I often find the old covers might start flapping with the wind if they are on top and move the tyres .the other thing is we put about 3 covers and more in patches on the pit nowadays as we find it helps protect from holes and damage and seems to make the plastic tight
Not a great idea IMO. The whole idea in putting new sheeton first is old sheets should protect it. Old sheets will have damage done to them and damage now to new sheet will.damage integrity of the air seal.
Change in the weather on the way. Starting to cloud over here in North Tipp and temp has gone down a few degrees
But Having the 3 sheets or so underneath protects the outer one because because it reinforces it.it all,came about last when someone dropped me a roll of plastic that theyhad since they con verted to bales and as we finishing a pit we were stuck for plastic and I thought of your man's roll and rather than lifting what I had down I just through it over it..it was a much better job as the was no tears or joints in the finished pit to let the air and less movement. I have been covering pits the other way for 40 years but this way is superior even though it doesn't appear to make sense.we always use heavy gauge sheet I think its 600 microns os so
off topic but I had a field that I reseeded last year that I was meant to cut in the next few days, top quality stuff for next years weanings,unfortunately my neighbours cattle broke into it today for a good few hours, will this effect the quality of this for next years feeding?
No, it'll be fine, apart from what the mower won't get under. They might reject the odd bit when feeding it.
Soil contamination is a lot more serious.
for those of you who do bales - did you get many bales per acre this month of May?
This is fairly badly trampled, so maybe the mower man might take it easy
6.8 avg. Grazed tight before closing. Cut sat evening, baled yesterday before lunch.
Not great 6 here but it's v good n well saved that's more than half the battle.
I wouldn't be too concerned, I've skinned fields that were completely flattened by thunder showers.
How fast should you drive tedding out silage
If it’s light I’d go around 9kph and a bit less depending how heavy it is.
I done 15km on second cut last year. Mowers got head start and Harvester was coming in evening.
Done the heaviest of it twice and was surprised how even it was spread.
Normally do 12 after headland
You're probably correct, but you've more patience than me!
6 kph here and go no faster,,,,
How many acres an hour can you get through at that speed?
I second that. The manual here has operating speed at between 4 and 8 kmh. Lots of moving parts in a tedder and a sure fire way to wear one out is to have lead in the boots
same here 6 k no faster ….8 rotorctedder tho …not about speed tedding
If you want to cover ground faster with a tedder, get a bigger tedder. Slow and steady with those yokes
Any thoughts on these ducks feet type double bale lifter over the regular bale lifter. Could you stand a bale on its end with one without bursting a wrapped bale?
19 acres in 90 min exactly as i timed it on wed
Great job best bale lifters on the market you can tip them you pull the lifter half out then lift and the bales are on there ends. look up cashels on you tube there will be a video. They lifters need an hydraulic top link to work best.
Poorest 1st cut I can remember here in North Kilkenny. Spring frost combined with low rainfall in April/May the main cause I think. Yield is down more than 50% on last few years. Just over 5 bales to the acre. Only consolation is it's top notch stuff made in ideal conditions which as one poster mentioned is half the battle.
Would you chance protected urea for second cut silage? It has gotten slurry and cut sward for the first cut and has just got slurry after being cut. There’s a good saving to be made on the PU over can if it works as well.
I find 29.0.14+s protected urea worked very well for my 2nd cut last year.
