Hard to believe after the spring we’ve had but I saw my first silage outfit of the year this morning .
Midlands Looking dry till.at least Sunday atm
Mower arriving today.
what fourcast sevice do you use ?
iPhone weather and yr both showing the same. 6mm rain on sat. I’d be hoping there be a good chance the rain Thursday will blow off
I'm seeing a scattering of showers for Thursday and Saturday to be wet too
Only got my fertiliser washed in 4 weeks ago so I’ve to sit this high out. Hopefully another one next month so I can get my hay made.
How Many days would fertilised grass need to make hay this kind of weather? Mowed it Saturday and scattered out Saturday. Tedder yesterday and again today. Wondering do I go for haylage or chance that it will be hay come Friday evening ?
NNot A drop showing here as far as monday on met.ie
I’m drawing in bales today. Quick question re stacking ‘em if that’s OK.
They’re going on hardcore and there’s no channel to catch any run off.
I’ve a Bord Bia inspection due in Sept. If I stack ‘em 3 high, will it be an issue for the inspector? Or is he more likely to say no more than, “They’re only supposed to be 2 high. Don’t do it again.”
With a good high you can make hay in 5 days. I’d be happy making it by Friday as long as its shook out enough.
2 is the rule when you’ve no run off channel. They are prickly about it since it’s an easy place to mark you down like missing tags.
It really depends on who you get, some have issues with it, others don’t
It's not bord Bia you should be worried about. It's a Department inspection I'd be more fearful of. They can impose penalties for non compliance and have done so.
Or just say that you were working and you got someone to draw them in for you and when you came home from work he had them stacked 3 high
I got pinged on a council inspection, had to take them down to 2 high and send them pictures afterwards.
This won't work unfortunately, had department inspection 1st winter after new rules came in, about 20 stacked 3 high in a pile of 200. I told him young lad driving for contractor had it done before I realised and we stacked all the rest only two high. Was told take them down within a week or a 5% penalty would be applied.
Pleading ignorance after rules in so long will get you nowhere
Haven't they little to be at
Thanks for the replies folks. I probably won’t chance it. Not worth the hassle of having to take them down. I’ll find a corner someplace for them
How would you possibly manage to remove the top layer of bales?
Trunk handler
The farm lobby is far too powerful in Ireland innit? Allowing such arbitrary nonsense like bale stack hight. Every bale made this week could be staked to the moon and nothing would come out of it. I wish we had a telescopic loader so to go higher than four rows.
I understand the frustration about staking the bales 3 high, tbh iv seen some dodgy stacks of bales. Obviously HSA and dept have seen them too and decided its bad practice. If it saved one accident its worth it imv.
Edit to say i haven't actually seen/heard safety mentioned. I presume it is, its hardly environmental
it’s is for water quality. 3 (or I assume higher is allowed) if you are on concrete and have a controlled run off for effluent.
Yup, apparently for environmental reasons.
Again, we're all guilty by default of causing pollution. So a big fat crude rule is applied to everyone to make it easy for the lads behind the desk in the Dept to check yet another compliance requirement.
Is there a certain distance that bales have to be away from a dry drain? It’s not on the map as a watercourse but would have water in it in winter. There’s a ditch between the hardcore and the drain. Sound
look at it the other way. You have to throw the environmental crowd a bone so we can say “look at these improvements we have implemented.”
Not stacking 3 high is small fry in the big scheme of things
Yea, they'll ping you on something so make it a handy one.
What a people paying for baling and wrapping excluding plastic?..did 180 bales of a new customer and quoted him €10.20 per bale including vat excluding plastic…he said it was robbery
So add on mowing , raking and plastic - How much is it costing him in total ?
Im only baling and wrapping..no idea what the rest costs him
€9.50 here I think. Half afraid to ask our baler man how much it is!
