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Silage thread

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  • #1202
    Reggie.
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 24,636 ✭✭✭✭Reggie.


    just do it wrote: »
    Thinking of panicking myself tomorrow! Mow at lunch, 2 shakes, rake and bale Thursday tea time. Hopefully the only moisture will be my sweat on the rosary beads :)

    Release the child of Prague :D


  • #1203
    just do it
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,422 ✭✭✭just do it


    Reggie. wrote: »
    Release the child of Prague :D

    I'll have a bit of sweating to do in the first place just to find rosary beads not to speak of a child of Prague!!!


  • #1204
    keep going
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,551 ✭✭✭keep going


    Does anyone get the feeling that all the silage is coming together, could make tings very tricky for contractors if we dont get weather in the next few days


  • #1205
    mahoney_j
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,808 ✭✭✭✭mahoney_j


    keep going wrote: »
    Does anyone get the feeling that all the silage is coming together, could make tings very tricky for contractors if we dont get weather in the next few days
    Fusion ,rake and self propelled all booked,going knocking all surplus paddocks tomorrow to bale Friday ,main crop Thursday to pit Saturday


  • #1206
    mahoney_j
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,808 ✭✭✭✭mahoney_j


    keep going wrote: »
    Does anyone get the feeling that all the silage is coming together, could make tings very tricky for contractors if we dont get weather in the next few days
    Fusion ,rake and self propelled all booked,going knocking all surplus paddocks tomorrow to bale Friday ,main crop Thursday to pit Saturday


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  • #1207
    Miname
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,984 ✭✭✭Miname


    keep going wrote: »
    Does anyone get the feeling that all the silage is coming together, could make tings very tricky for contractors if we dont get weather in the next few days

    I don't think it will have any bigger impact than it did last year. There's a lot of very backward crops still round the country. I'd say il be about a week behind what I was aiming for . I've extra ground closed so im not going to be overly tied with getting bulk but there's a lot of lads will be holding out for bulk.


  • #1208
    Reggie.
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 24,636 ✭✭✭✭Reggie.


    Miname wrote: »
    I don't think it will have any bigger impact than it did last year. There's a lot of very backward crops still round the country. I'd say il be about a week behind what I was aiming for . I've extra ground closed so im not going to be overly tied with getting bulk but there's a lot of lads will be holding out for bulk.
    Not too much being cut around the midlands


  • #1209
    Timmaay
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,392 ✭✭✭✭Timmaay


    Knock sat pit Monday possibly, but haven't told my dad yet...


  • #1210
    frazzledhome
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,278 ✭✭✭frazzledhome


    Forecast is improving. We'll start mowing tomorrow evening I think. Once we start I think I'll go flat out till the end and cover pits after. We usually do over 2 splits but walked all ground this evening and looks to be a super crop.

    We set 70 acres of new grass last year and its looking terrific. Hope we get a few days together


  • #1211
    Milked out
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,433 ✭✭✭Milked out


    frazzledhome wrote: »
    Forecast is improving. We'll start mowing tomorrow evening I think. Once we start I think I'll go flat out till the end and cover pits after. We usually do over 2 splits but walked all ground this evening and looks to be a super crop.

    We set 70 acres of new grass last year and its looking terrific. Hope we get a few days together

    Any issues other than rain with leaving pits open a few days?


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  • #1212
    CloughCasey1
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,742 ✭✭✭CloughCasey1


    Timmaay wrote: »
    Knock sat pit Monday possibly, but haven't told my dad yet...

    Why ya not told him?? Is he like most auld lads thinking its not bulked up properly until seed heads are out and the butt is yellow!


  • #1213
    jfh
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,389 ✭✭✭jfh


    Just out of interest, do ye test it or know by the look.
    If ye test, can teagasc test there & then?


  • #1214
    just do it
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,422 ✭✭✭just do it


    Knocked at 4 and shuck at 8. Plenty grey clouds around :eek:


  • #1215
    Ameila
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 36 ✭Ameila


    Started here this evening .


  • #1216
    frazzledhome
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,278 ✭✭✭frazzledhome


    Milked out wrote: »
    Any issues other than rain with leaving pits open a few days?

    In 2010 left pit open from Thurs pm to Mon am as I got held up at a wedding, not a bother on the pit. My condition on the other hand was very different


  • #1217
    milkprofit
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,169 ✭✭✭milkprofit


    stanflt wrote: »
    As frazzled would say I panicked last Thursday and knocked the grass

    Had wagons self propelled harvester and balers in on Saturday

    Tedded twice

    What did contractor charge for self propelled into pit


  • #1218
    just do it
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,422 ✭✭✭just do it


    Any issue leaving it for 68 hours if it gets a bit wet tomorrow/ Friday? I think it would be alright given the current lack of sun and cool conditions?


  • #1219
    Deepsouthwest
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,282 ✭✭✭Deepsouthwest


    frazzledhome wrote: »
    In 2010 left pit open from Thurs pm to Mon am as I got held up at a wedding, not a bother on the pit. My condition on the other hand was very different

    Sounds like a great wedding! Couldn't think of a worse job to be at after giving a few days in the sauce!


  • #1220
    Milked out
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,433 ✭✭✭Milked out


    just do it wrote: »
    Any issue leaving it for 68 hours if it gets a bit wet tomorrow/ Friday? I think it would be alright given the current lack of sun and cool conditions?

    The issue with leaving it down too long is thst the protein starts to break down, according to the advisor anyway, that and if it gets too dry trying to conserve in pit can be difficult


  • #1221
    Dawggone
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,506 ✭✭✭Dawggone


    Milked out wrote: »
    Any issues other than rain with leaving pits open a few days?

    Do the maths.
    How many 'feet' of rain's gonna fall on a pit?
    I've been making pits for many years and once it's well rolled (sealed), it's fine, trust me.
    When I was a chap, pits were fine, i.e.well conserved, even when left open for weeks on end.
    It's the quality of the ensilate that counts...


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  • #1222
    just do it
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,422 ✭✭✭just do it


    Milked out wrote: »
    The issue with leaving it down too long is thst the protein starts to break down, according to the advisor anyway, that and if it gets too dry trying to conserve in pit can be difficult
    The weather will dictate - fingers crossed


  • #1223
    frazzledhome
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,278 ✭✭✭frazzledhome


    Dawggone wrote: »
    Do the maths.
    How many 'feet' of rain's gonna fall on a pit?
    I've been making pits for many years and once it's well rolled (sealed), it's fine, trust me.
    When I was a chap, pits were fine, i.e.well conserved, even when left open for weeks on end.
    It's the quality of the ensilate that counts...

    Roll the shyte out of it. Can you remember the old rule, was it 2 tonne rolling for every 100 ensiled per hour? I could be a mile off but remember some rule


  • #1224
    frazzledhome
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,278 ✭✭✭frazzledhome


    Deepsouthwest wrote: »
    Sounds like a great wedding! Couldn't think of a worse job to be at after giving a few days in the sauce!

    I'd say I was only ballast on the Monday:)


  • #1225
    Dawggone
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,506 ✭✭✭Dawggone


    ROFLMAO!!



    How many tillage farmers on this thread??

    :):)


  • #1226
    frazzledhome
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,278 ✭✭✭frazzledhome


    Dawggone wrote: »
    ROFLMAO!!



    How many tillage farmers on this thread??

    :):)

    That's the great thing about the weather here its reliable ;)


  • #1227
    Dawggone
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,506 ✭✭✭Dawggone


    frazzledhome wrote: »
    That's the great thing about the weather here its reliable ;)

    :)

    In fairness Frazz ye sound like a bunch of leaving cert girls!!


    What would happen if was economic sink or swim??


  • #1228
    frazzledhome
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,278 ✭✭✭frazzledhome


    Dawggone wrote: »
    :)

    In fairness Frazz ye sound like a bunch of leaving cert girls!!


    What would happen if was economic sink or swim??

    Bull into it and make sure it happens.

    I don't get you on the first statement ???


  • #1229
    Blackgrass
    Closed Accounts Posts: 735 ✭✭✭Blackgrass


    frazzledhome wrote: »
    Bull into it and make sure it happens.

    I don't get you on the first statement ???

    Stop fretting come back in a week when it's ripe?


  • #1230
    Dunedin
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,662 ✭✭✭Dunedin


    mahoney_j wrote: »
    No need to test,sun sorts sugars and tedding nitrogen with a good wilt.dont panic cutting opportunities will come.anyone local to ted grass for you,grass at this stage very green and needs spreading out to increase dm content and flush out n


    allowing that the weather is going to be dull/overcast/odd light shower, would you normally ted twice and once if weather is good?


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  • #1231
    mahoney_j
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,808 ✭✭✭✭mahoney_j


    Dunedin wrote: »
    allowing that the weather is going to be dull/overcast/odd light shower, would you normally ted twice and once if weather is good?

    Cut paddocks yesterday evening ,Tedded after milking ,today after dinner and again about 11 in morning and rake and bale in afternoon.if weather changes will bale this evening


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