@@sandersfarmvids repayments per year would probably be less than the price of the plastic but if your doing all these bales yourself. Ye have the man power and the machinery and the system.....drive on. Be interesting to get a few quotes though.
Good vid I do around 2k bales a year and the best thing about it is you have a product that is easy to sell. Any surplus end of the year can be sold on easily.
Bloody hell, breaking into a sweat just watching. We do about 160 first cut and that’s enough for me 😂😂😂. See you like the pivot steers bet your on pin and cone fittings 👍. You must buy bale wrap by the lorry load. Enjoyed watching, thanks
Fantastic work and video. I am not a fan of music in videos normally but in this video, yes, great choice and spot on. Sounds like Jean Michel Jarre to me. You deserve more the 2,100 subs too. Top regards, Jon in North Yorkshire!
FIRST TIME WATCHING I CHECKED OUT YOUR OTHER VIDEOS WE USED TO MAKE MILK IN THE U.S. I THOUGHT ABOUT YOUR MILK MARKET I LOOKED UP THE ISLE OF MAN OVER 80,000 PEOPLE I DON'T THINK YOU HAVE A PROBLEM SELLING YOUR MILK OR GETTING PAID WHAT IT IS WORTH I LOOKED UP THE ISLE OF MAN YOUR LAND SEEMS TO LAY OUT NICE YOUR CLIMATE IS NICE IT SEEMS TO BE A VERY PLEASANT PLACE TO LIVE AND TO FARM I AM GOING TO KEEP WATCHING IF I CAN NOT GO THERE I CAN AT LEAST SEE IT
Not sure if you have watched Cole the cornstar but in one of his recent videos they have a bale trailer that u slide 8 or 10 bales into it but with one push of a lever they all unload in a line instantly It’s very fast if you’ve a fast tractor or good keep for the field. I’m a first time viewer and absolutely lovin this video!
Awesome!! We bale anywhere’s between 1000-1500 bales a year but wrap it with an inline wrapper. The rows get long and you can’t stack them up high but we use less plastic than individual wrapping. Too bad you guys couldn’t put up an upright silo. They save a ton of space but again you’d have to buy all the chopping stuff.
tidy stack , tidy job , yes lots of money tied up in plastic and if recycling becomes a higher cost then .........? we priced it all up 25 years ago having been making bales since 81 , bagging 2000 a year then onto wrapping from 1986....there was nothing it it cost wise back then over a 20 year period ..we are on a rented farm so wasnt appropriate to build a huge clamp. the suckler cows outwinter so its handy to get bales to them wherever they are and there is a burn runs right through the steading.. so we continued .i have only a small portion of the stock we had back then and the bales are convenient and suit me fine too........pros and cons to both systems i think ........either way an impressive video to watch ,nice to see a slick operation ,well done to all
Wow. I really don’t want to be the guy who says just build a clamp but I’m struggling to see the benefits of this. The most obvious being the massive cost of plastic. Then there’s yard space as you could fit three cuts of clamp silage in the same area of one cut of bales. I don’t think you’d need any extra men as you looked to have one on the baler, one loading bales, one leading, one unloading and one stacking which if you chopped would give you one on the forager, three trailer men and one on the clamp and because you would get it done in three days it would save on costs further. Yes the forager would be an investment but ultimately a second hand machine or a trailed one would drastically reduce that. Never mind the labour of removing the wrap everyday during the winter and then disposing of it.
We have moved to an all bales system in a smaller scale for a number of reasons: In my opinion bales are only more expensive on the day you make them, if you take into account the lower DM loss with bales as apposed to a silo face, (especially a large one) the additional cost of wrap is quickly counteracted with the savings in silage and land base needed. Currently we are feeding a mix of this year's first, second cut and last year's third cut. Plus last year's second cut to beef animals and later third cut to the dry cows. That would be 5 clamp faces open to make the best use of all forages available. On a multi cut or short interval cutting system, the lower yields per cut brings bales slightly lower than the cost of clamping as you are paying in volume as apposed to per hour or acre. Not everyone will agree but thought I'd highlight some of the reasons why we choose to bale our silage.
@@Tullyvernon Would it not then be best to bale the amount you will have left over at the end of the year on average (or 150% of it) and put the rest in the clamp? Is having both systems in tandem much more expensive/complex?
@@kwoltekublai3337 That would be a good option to maximize the use of the existing clamps. In our situation when we have all the equipment for making and feeding bales we like to get the most use from them rather than bringing in a contractor to do part or have to buy our own silage equipment as well. This incoming bale wrap prices may change things but usually I am happy that any additional costs with bales are well covered in the savings in DM loss etc.
That's a lot of bales. How many rolls of wrap did you use? To build a clamp would mean a big investment in machinery to collect the grass. Would imagine baler and wrapper costs less per hour than trailers, loading wagons or a chopper? Would you get all the grass in those bales in a clamp the same size as the Bale storage area? Loved the video, especially the part with footage next to tedder rotor.
We are going to price up changing to clamp but it’s not going to be cheap. A huge pad of concrete with drains and collection tank (££££???). A trailed forager ( would want our own because would want to do it when we wanted) to do our acreage 60k, a 2nd hand 300hp tractor to run that size of forager (69k), silage trailers, buck rake, shear grab, feed wagon...the list goes on. I like to stick a camera where other people have not!
I’m sure you have your reasons for baling your grass, both labour wise and economic wise, if something works why change it, keep up the good work and keep safe 👍🏻
Forage wagon is the way to go. 2 would easily do 100 acres a day. However more importantly for you is the the fact that it gives a longer chop so would assist in keeping your butterfat up.
It’s for dairy cows. We have a very simple system where we just put bales in front of the cows. The long fibre of the bales is very good for the cows rumens and we have a really high butterfat %
@@sandersfarmvids I know about bales being good for cows rumens, been herdsman/manager for nearly 16 years. When you say you have really high butterfat, do you have Jerseys then?
Is the brighter plastic better to preserve the silage? Here in Ireland it’s getting more difficult to get contractors when you want them and they find it hard getting drivers.
No real difference in plastic colour, we just ran out of black. One of the reasons we do bales is that we know we will get the contractor when we want him
I’m more intrigued how you got 10 bales to the acre ?? We baled our place in Tasmania and only got 280 bales from 120 acres? I know different grass will effect the numbers, but did you fertilise with anything out of the ordinary to get such a massive number?
Just 250kg/ha of N some prilled lime and a generous helping of slurry. We had some crazy reseeds which were producing over 13 bales/ha. Weather came right at the right time too. My dad is desperate to move to Tasmania!
good video, dunno why people always tell you "jUsT bUiLd A cLaMp!!!" its whatever suits the farm best, not what suits your mind. only downside of this i can think is the unwrapping and the plastic waste, otherwise seems like a decent solution.
Good job! I have big problems with birds who damage my silage bales, specially in the first period after wrapping. Do you have this kind of problem? I think they are looking for some bugs… Could black wrap solve this problem? Thanks!
Since we stack the bales on their ends we haven’t had any issues with birds pecking them and we have a lot of crows about. We also use 6 layers of wrap for added protection
Get a. 22 rifle and even if you miss they will piss off. Way cheaper than shotgun shells. Had a serious problem with crows for 25yrs as in 600+ doing alot of damage to bales and organic oats pre harvest. Set up target board one day fired about 30 shots to zero the scope with the intention of doing some crow sniping. Next day all gone and never returned. Didn't have to kill one. Think the rifle noise did the job.
@@sandersfarmvids don't let the grass go to 10 bales to the acre. It cost good money to put grass in a bale so better put the good stuff in them. Keltic trailers are the way to go. Saves labour something unreal
@@MrScalesie we use 3 trailers, one being loaded, one traveling and one being unloaded so the wrapper never stops so there is no way apart from 2 wrappers that could speed it up. Some of our fields are steep so bales are rested against banks and walls so a chaser couldn’t get to them
Serious video 👍🏼 Where are you guys based and what kind of farm are you running that requires 4000 bales, from first cut? How much will you feed out over winter? Thanks from Éire 👍🏼
The problem with the bales each 1 is an individual if they get row or vermin attack uhave to repair each 1 with the clampu have just 1 massive clamp much much cheaper less headaches u also save on panadol
4000 bales. And a stationery wrapper needing 2 loaders to take off and put on the bales. Alot of unnecessary work. A fusion would save a massive amount of work.
If you want to make top quality bale silage you wrap at the stack. moving wrapped bales after theyve sagged in the field is a recipe for disaster. we dont hole any in our stack, moving 4000 bales after theyve been wrapped is going to be slow and a lot more likelihood of damaging them
It's all in you're head. The new fusion baler that uses plastic instead of netting is the new way to go. Their is no waste whatsoever and fusion bales holds their shape. Pit silage is the best for large acreage of silage.
Here in sweden the kuhn vbp has starter to be more and more popular. Since the one with belts kan press the bale all the way from the core they get the same density all the way. And with the combination of that and the 3d wrapping they hold their shape even one year after. Worked at a farm up in northern sweden (where I live) a few years ago and was really happy with the bales the kuhn made
The amount of money being spent in wrap, you could build a clamp 😂
I don’t think you realise how much a huge pad of concrete and all the silage machinery needed would cost
@@sandersfarmvids repayments per year would probably be less than the price of the plastic but if your doing all these bales yourself. Ye have the man power and the machinery and the system.....drive on. Be interesting to get a few quotes though.
@@billabong9215 yes we will do some maths later I think
Doesn't matter how much less a clamp would cost.... bales presrve the grass a hell of alot more. There's alot of your money there.
Bales are easier sold than clamped silo ....
Good vid I do around 2k bales a year and the best thing about it is you have a product that is easy to sell.
Any surplus end of the year can be sold on easily.
Quite the tool you've turned the valtra into! Brilliant video 💪🏴
Greetings from the USA. We turn our grass in to silage in our bunker silos. Great video none the less
I'm sure a clamp would be more economical, but damn is this satisfying
Absolutely love your baling videos and this 1 is brilliant, fantastic shots. Keep those videos coming, you have great footage
Bloody hell, breaking into a sweat just watching. We do about 160 first cut and that’s enough for me 😂😂😂. See you like the pivot steers bet your on pin and cone fittings 👍. You must buy bale wrap by the lorry load. Enjoyed watching, thanks
Great video, and great kit. Stacking at its finest right there!.
Hard work deserves respect. With respect from Azerbaijan 🇦🇿👍
Isle of Man is best place for life in Europe but i did not know there were big farms out there. Beauty isle. Greetings from Poland.
Great video. Always look forward to your silage videos. 👍
Thanks, it always opens up some serious debate when I put them on, not many people do what we do
A+ on music, content, and editing....keep up good work
That's some mighty fine stacking so neat tidy
Love the vid we just dit our first hay cut in square bales have about 600 of them and i find that already more work than i would like
Glad to see one man wasn't stuck on the wrapper the whole time😉
Reet do!! You'll definitely get champion for 3 bale opening challenge! After that lot 👍👍
Fantastic work and video. I am not a fan of music in videos normally but in this video, yes, great choice and spot on. Sounds like Jean Michel Jarre to me.
You deserve more the 2,100 subs too.
Top regards,
Jon in North Yorkshire!
I can't believe the amount of work and effort ye lads put into making 4k bale's very impressive 👍
FIRST TIME WATCHING I CHECKED OUT YOUR OTHER VIDEOS WE USED TO MAKE MILK IN THE U.S.
I THOUGHT ABOUT YOUR MILK MARKET I LOOKED UP THE ISLE OF MAN OVER 80,000 PEOPLE I DON'T THINK YOU HAVE A PROBLEM SELLING YOUR MILK OR GETTING PAID WHAT IT IS WORTH I LOOKED UP THE ISLE OF MAN YOUR LAND SEEMS TO LAY OUT NICE YOUR CLIMATE IS NICE
IT SEEMS TO BE A VERY PLEASANT PLACE TO LIVE AND TO FARM I AM GOING TO KEEP WATCHING IF I CAN NOT GO THERE I CAN AT LEAST SEE IT
Not sure if you have watched Cole the cornstar but in one of his recent videos they have a bale trailer that u slide 8 or 10 bales into it but with one push of a lever they all unload in a line instantly It’s very fast if you’ve a fast tractor or good keep for the field. I’m a first time viewer and absolutely lovin this video!
Awesome!! We bale anywhere’s between 1000-1500 bales a year but wrap it with an inline wrapper. The rows get long and you can’t stack them up high but we use less plastic than individual wrapping. Too bad you guys couldn’t put up an upright silo. They save a ton of space but again you’d have to buy all the chopping stuff.
McHale balers 🇮🇪 represented with pride
My first thought! 👌🏻👌🏻👌🏻 🇮🇪
tidy stack , tidy job , yes lots of money tied up in plastic and if recycling becomes a higher cost then .........? we priced it all up 25 years ago having been making bales since 81 , bagging 2000 a year then onto wrapping from 1986....there was nothing it it cost wise back then over a 20 year period ..we are on a rented farm so wasnt appropriate to build a huge clamp. the suckler cows outwinter so its handy to get bales to them wherever they are and there is a burn runs right through the steading.. so we continued .i have only a small portion of the stock we had back then and the bales are convenient and suit me fine too........pros and cons to both systems i think ........either way an impressive video to watch ,nice to see a slick operation ,well done to all
Jaysus your beat with the bales my cousin could take notes he’s real messy with em holes nd all 😂 love from Ireland
Great video🚜🚜
Just imagine, cows are going to turn that all into manure ..... oh my colon aches just thinking about it! Awesome vid!
GREAT VIDEO😃😃!!!!!
Wow. I really don’t want to be the guy who says just build a clamp but I’m struggling to see the benefits of this. The most obvious being the massive cost of plastic. Then there’s yard space as you could fit three cuts of clamp silage in the same area of one cut of bales. I don’t think you’d need any extra men as you looked to have one on the baler, one loading bales, one leading, one unloading and one stacking which if you chopped would give you one on the forager, three trailer men and one on the clamp and because you would get it done in three days it would save on costs further. Yes the forager would be an investment but ultimately a second hand machine or a trailed one would drastically reduce that. Never mind the labour of removing the wrap everyday during the winter and then disposing of it.
We have moved to an all bales system in a smaller scale for a number of reasons:
In my opinion bales are only more expensive on the day you make them, if you take into account the lower DM loss with bales as apposed to a silo face, (especially a large one) the additional cost of wrap is quickly counteracted with the savings in silage and land base needed. Currently we are feeding a mix of this year's first, second cut and last year's third cut. Plus last year's second cut to beef animals and later third cut to the dry cows. That would be 5 clamp faces open to make the best use of all forages available.
On a multi cut or short interval cutting system, the lower yields per cut brings bales slightly lower than the cost of clamping as you are paying in volume as apposed to per hour or acre.
Not everyone will agree but thought I'd highlight some of the reasons why we choose to bale our silage.
@@Tullyvernon Would it not then be best to bale the amount you will have left over at the end of the year on average (or 150% of it) and put the rest in the clamp? Is having both systems in tandem much more expensive/complex?
@@kwoltekublai3337 That would be a good option to maximize the use of the existing clamps. In our situation when we have all the equipment for making and feeding bales we like to get the most use from them rather than bringing in a contractor to do part or have to buy our own silage equipment as well. This incoming bale wrap prices may change things but usually I am happy that any additional costs with bales are well covered in the savings in DM loss etc.
Madness how ye dont have a silage pit look at the amount of extra work handling all those bales! even just to wrap them 🙄
Very impressive. Why round bales? Would square bales not be an option for this amount?
crazy set up !!!.
Good crazy or crazy crazy?
Just subbed.. great camera work
That's a lot of bales. How many rolls of wrap did you use? To build a clamp would mean a big investment in machinery to collect the grass. Would imagine baler and wrapper costs less per hour than trailers, loading wagons or a chopper? Would you get all the grass in those bales in a clamp the same size as the Bale storage area? Loved the video, especially the part with footage next to tedder rotor.
We are going to price up changing to clamp but it’s not going to be cheap. A huge pad of concrete with drains and collection tank (££££???). A trailed forager ( would want our own because would want to do it when we wanted) to do our acreage 60k, a 2nd hand 300hp tractor to run that size of forager (69k), silage trailers, buck rake, shear grab, feed wagon...the list goes on. I like to stick a camera where other people have not!
Great video thanks
What about using a using a big baler like a Krone BigPack and wrapping them. More dense, less bales, wrap, transport, etc. Same feed quality.
I’m sure you have your reasons for baling your grass, both labour wise and economic wise, if something works why change it, keep up the good work and keep safe 👍🏻
Interesting! We still do round bale Silage here but stack as a Pyramid rather than end on. I put them Five high with our Manitou.
If we make any haylage we would stack higher but the silage bales would squash too much
Wow fantastic cut
Forage wagon is the way to go. 2 would easily do 100 acres a day. However more importantly for you is the the fact that it gives a longer chop so would assist in keeping your butterfat up.
What distance will you be from the pit to do that much in a day?
If your not running knives in the baler the chop will be longer than a wagon
Class video
Beautiful countryside.
I hope all that plastic can be recycled afterwards.
no YOU ARE GRAZY😳😳😳💪🏼💪🏼
Great video, you guys must have put a shift in to get that many bales in 👍
It was a long few days!!
Awesome 👏
Is this for dairy or beef? What are the advantages for you doing bales over clamp silage? Cracking video amazing achievement by you all!!
It’s for dairy cows. We have a very simple system where we just put bales in front of the cows. The long fibre of the bales is very good for the cows rumens and we have a really high butterfat %
@@sandersfarmvids I know about bales being good for cows rumens, been herdsman/manager for nearly 16 years. When you say you have really high butterfat, do you have Jerseys then?
No we have Holsteins, montbelliarde, Swedish red, brown Swiss and British Friesian. We regularly get butter fats if 5.5%
@@sandersfarmvids dam that’s bloody impressive, what is your protein like? What’s your SCC and bactoscan like?
The guy stacking those bales will see bales in this sleep.
I’m glad I didn’t have to do them all. Did about 4 hrs at the end which was enough
Wow that’s amazing, how many days did it take you guys to bale 4000 bales from 400 acres ? , because that is one major undertaking thing to do.
We didn’t do it all in one go as rain interrupted us. It probably took a full week in total
Is the brighter plastic better to preserve the silage? Here in Ireland it’s getting more difficult to get contractors when you want them and they find it hard getting drivers.
No real difference in plastic colour, we just ran out of black. One of the reasons we do bales is that we know we will get the contractor when we want him
Thats because nobody wants 2 work 4 a fiver a hour🤣🤣
Christ we had 1,500 bales this year normally we get 800. Bales are alot of work and are messy but you can feck up all the feed in bales
This is absolutely insane 🥴🤯imagine being the wrapper man 🥵🥵🥵
They love it!!!
How long does it take to wrap 4000 bales?
Jesus that's some job how many rolls of wrap would u use in first cut?
A few pallets!!
Am I the only person in the world who’d rather listen to the sound of the machinery than damn music?
Drones don’t record sound!!
I’m more intrigued how you got 10 bales to the acre ?? We baled our place in Tasmania and only got 280 bales from 120 acres? I know different grass will effect the numbers, but did you fertilise with anything out of the ordinary to get such a massive number?
Just 250kg/ha of N some prilled lime and a generous helping of slurry. We had some crazy reseeds which were producing over 13 bales/ha. Weather came right at the right time too. My dad is desperate to move to Tasmania!
good video, dunno why people always tell you "jUsT bUiLd A cLaMp!!!" its whatever suits the farm best, not what suits your mind. only downside of this i can think is the unwrapping and the plastic waste, otherwise seems like a decent solution.
How much do you make of all those bales
I think you apsalout crazy but you have good taste in tractors valtra and fendt 🤙🏻🤙🏻🤙🏻🥵🥵🥵
The massey is helping as well! 😃
They all have to earn their keep!!😂
Have you considered buying a baler that wraps too? It would leave one step in the process out.
No. We have a very quick system and moving them when wrapped is not the best thing to do
Maybe they can't because they are on PS 4 lol.
@@christiandietz6341 FS19 Vanilla has a baler that wraps
How much does it cost to have a contractor? Is it price pr bale or hourly?
How much in wrap would that cost you
We’ve not even finished first cut yet and only bale 80 acre 🤦♀️😂
Good job!
I have big problems with birds who damage my silage bales, specially in the first period after wrapping.
Do you have this kind of problem?
I think they are looking for some bugs…
Could black wrap solve this problem?
Thanks!
Since we stack the bales on their ends we haven’t had any issues with birds pecking them and we have a lot of crows about. We also use 6 layers of wrap for added protection
If the bale is wrapped wit black and white wrap birds wont touch them but I'm not sure if it's just the 2 in 1(bale and wrap)balers can do that though
black and whit are a nono to birds magpies come to mind birds see them and they are gone miles
Get a. 22 rifle and even if you miss they will piss off. Way cheaper than shotgun shells. Had a serious problem with crows for 25yrs as in 600+ doing alot of damage to bales and organic oats pre harvest. Set up target board one day fired about 30 shots to zero the scope with the intention of doing some crow sniping. Next day all gone and never returned. Didn't have to kill one. Think the rifle noise did the job.
Questions....
Are the bales for sale or own use?
How far away are the fields from the yard?
Bales are all for our own use. Furthest field is about 6km away. Have to navigate busy country roads though!
@@sandersfarmvids don't let the grass go to 10 bales to the acre. It cost good money to put grass in a bale so better put the good stuff in them. Keltic trailers are the way to go. Saves labour something unreal
@@mrstr8pipes no heads in it it was pretty good stuff
I'm just wondering why you don't have a bale chaser something like the bridgeway or pronar would make sence for your operation imo
We don’t strap the bales on so why would we need one?
@@sandersfarmvids self loading bale chaser be quicker
@@MrScalesie we use 3 trailers, one being loaded, one traveling and one being unloaded so the wrapper never stops so there is no way apart from 2 wrappers that could speed it up. Some of our fields are steep so bales are rested against banks and walls so a chaser couldn’t get to them
I like it if the clamp fails you can waste loads. This way your sure to save more. Do you struggle with brids pecking the plastic?
Not if you stack on their ends
In how many days you make a Bales after you cut the grass???
If we cut on a Monday afternoon we would pick up late morning wednesday
Nice 10 bales on acre
Would a fusion be a better job for ye?
No interest in wrapping in the field
wow, was it worth it ?
It’s what we do every year and it works for us
Running over the windrows 😬😬lol
👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻
We just finished stacking 10k of them off 650 acres
How many bales will your stock eat in a season
we usually try to make 6000
The thought of having to cut open all those bales has me breaking out in hives. What do you do with the wrap once it's taken off?
We use a bale shear so don’t have to get off the handler. Plastic goes to an incinerator to produce electric
Serious video 👍🏼
Where are you guys based and what kind of farm are you running that requires 4000 bales, from first cut?
How much will you feed out over winter?
Thanks from Éire 👍🏼
We are in the Isle of Man. We have nearly 600 milking cows and can be feeding up to 30 bales a day
@@sandersfarmvidsfair play, thanks very much for the reply. You are kept busy so 👍🏼
Will you be making second cut?
@@cdemo1186 yes we need a bit more yet!
@@sandersfarmvids i take it no mixer wagon?
No all put out with a handler and bale shear!
Was surprised to see those seagulls looking for snails. Only then noticed the desc.: ISLE of Man....okay.
Fair play to ye, some operation. You'd want as much help feeding them out🤣
one man on one handler with a bale shear feeds them all out
are you not worried about lifting with spike? It will create air pocket. Seems like not a problem?
We spike onto and off the trailer and have had no issues. Our bales win the silage analysis competitions so can’t be bad
@@sandersfarmvids how many wraps of netwrap you put on bales?
@@artur8403 we don’t use netwrap anymore we are putting two layers of plastic film on
How many layers you putting on with your hs2000? And What setting are you putting into the box to achieve this
Putting 6 layers on. Set wrapper to 12 wraps to do this
Where abouts is this bc one of the mountains look like Ben bulben in sligo in Ireland
The Isle of Man 🇮🇲
Jesus that must of took some amount of rolls of wrap
Quite a few pallets!
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What do you think one bale of silage would sell for?
Probably £15. There’s not much money to be made
Why bales not a clamp?
I'm hungry now. Fancy a burrito
The problem with the bales each 1 is an individual if they get row or vermin attack uhave to repair each 1 with the clampu have just 1 massive clamp much much cheaper less headaches u also save on panadol
The hardship of those yokes There like a lucky bag you don’t know what’s in them till you open them
Not if you make them properly
@@sandersfarmvids they are still hardship and an eyesore around the country
What happens the plastic at the end of winter?
Goes to an incinerator to be made into electric
Not taking plastic bags in the supermarket seems ridiculous to me when i see this.... Is there realy no other way to store the grass?
4000 bales. And a stationery wrapper needing 2 loaders to take off and put on the bales. Alot of unnecessary work. A fusion would save a massive amount of work.
If you want to make top quality bale silage you wrap at the stack. moving wrapped bales after theyve sagged in the field is a recipe for disaster. we dont hole any in our stack, moving 4000 bales after theyve been wrapped is going to be slow and a lot more likelihood of damaging them
Wrap and stack is the way forward.
Out of interest why no clamp allow you to feed differently, or something?
It's all in you're head. The new fusion baler that uses plastic instead of netting is the new way to go. Their is no waste whatsoever and fusion bales holds their shape. Pit silage is the best for large acreage of silage.
@@patrickbrennan6449 never known a fusion make silage as good as stack wrapping yet
How far away are your fields from your Farm?
Anywhere from 1-6 km
Why only stack 3 high? With 4 high you need less space and the bales still keep theire shape (if it aint to wet)
They are fairly heavy chopped bales. We find 3 is the best
Have you tried a belt baler you will get a lot more grass in each bale.
Not found that here? Roller balers always make a tighter bale that I've seen
Here in sweden the kuhn vbp has starter to be more and more popular. Since the one with belts kan press the bale all the way from the core they get the same density all the way. And with the combination of that and the 3d wrapping they hold their shape even one year after.
Worked at a farm up in northern sweden (where I live) a few years ago and was really happy with the bales the kuhn made
Hey how much do you sell each of those for ?
We don’t sell any, they are all for feeding our own cows
Don't mean to be that guy but how do you get 10 bales of 1 acre
New leys, fertiliser, slurry and perfect growing conditions. One field was nearly 19 bales an acre!
Are you going to recycle all that plastic?
What are the bales weighing in at?
We have no way to weigh them, but they are decent heavy bales as are all bales from a mchale
@@sandersfarmvids get a scales fitted to your telehandler maybe
Some amount of bales how much cows do ye have
Around 600
@@sandersfarmvids holy shit
Big bale silage must suit your farm needs, it sure is a lot of work for one baler and wrapper.
McHale stuff is prettty tough