Silage 2020

[scoffcruddle]

Due to all the recent rains,my lagoons full so had to cut some so I could spread,mowed and tedded yesterday,grass dry but ground wet,had the mrs on the rake and managed the wagon and the clamp myself,didn’t do bad,45 acres between milkings,heavy rain forecast for the morning.

How I didn’t get stuck I’ll never know.:sweat:

 

[Blackwater boy]

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Is that inniscarra dam?

 

[nashmach]

All go on the bales today.


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No shortage of power on the wrapper anyway :Whistle2:

 

[Arthur]

Due to all the recent rains,my lagoons full so had to cut some so I could spread,mowed and tedded yesterday,grass dry but ground wet,had the mrs on the rake and managed the wagon and the clamp myself,didn’t do bad,45 acres between milkings,heavy rain forecast for the morning.

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How I didn’t get stuck I’ll never know.:sweat:

Shouldn't be putting a "like" to that, sticky going by the look of it, haven't had to deal with the like since 2012.

 

[Danielk]

No shortage of power on the wrapper anyway :Whistle2:

No he used to have a 2wd ford 7600 but the long journeys were getting to him so he put it on the mx for the last few years

 

[SMID]

Due to all the recent rains,my lagoons full so had to cut some so I could spread,mowed and tedded yesterday,grass dry but ground wet,had the mrs on the rake and managed the wagon and the clamp myself,didn’t do bad,45 acres between milkings,heavy rain forecast for the morning.

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How I didn’t get stuck I’ll never know.:sweat:

Same here, stole 85 acres Thursday night Friday morning half loads in the front of the trailers and go.

 

[headcase]

 

[headcase]

Looks like an elephant pushing a cvx....

 

[Mf240]

Looks like an elephant pushing a cvx....

Looks like a tiger on rollerscates hanging onto the back of a tractor and roller

 

[ponderosa]

Sh1t i thought i hit the jackpot....:cool1:

Or was it the Deere gave you that feeling

 

[headcase]

Due to all the recent rains,my lagoons full so had to cut some so I could spread,mowed and tedded yesterday,grass dry but ground wet,had the mrs on the rake and managed the wagon and the clamp myself,didn’t do bad,45 acres between milkings,heavy rain forecast for the morning.

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How I didn’t get stuck I’ll never know.:sweat:

clucking bels:eek3:
i left 1 or 2 marks but in shyte low ground next to the railway track

 

[Bencroy]

Lads, just wondering overall through oit the country is many lads with sph 's putting on addivtives for farmers .here in leitrim cavan longford border area they wouldn't hear of putting on anything through the harvestor for us.is that similar in other parts.2nd cut could have done with it yesterday as sugars was extremily low and what additives are most using.
As we have a long winter here we hope to get good silage especially for the autumn calvers.off to slurry meadows for 3rd cut now.
Any info appreciated.had been advised to use ecyosil from volac

 

[headcase]

this year there's only 1 or 2 customers that haven't used additive

a few years ago only 1 or 2 used it:scratchhead:

 

[Bot.exe]

this year there's only 1 or 2 customers that haven't used additive

a few years ago only 1 or 2 used it:scratchhead:

Do the additives have any affect on the pickup/rotor and/or wagon body. I don't think anyone has an applicator on a baler, wagon or harvester around me

 

[jf 850]

Do the additives have any affect on the pickup/rotor and/or wagon body. I don't think anyone has an applicator on a baler, wagon or harvester around me

I wouldnt know much about wagons , but I can't say that I know of anyone local to me with an applicator on either a baler or harvester.
Sulphuric acid put people off it for life.
Powder inoculate were like Marmite , and or Witchdoctor territory. :rolleyes2: depending which side of the fence you were perched .

 

[Bencroy]

There just dry powders or powder added to water.i do remember when i was a cub cosil and add f acid been used.did a great job on silage but ate concrete and hard on machines.
Havent heard of it in years.persume its long gone of the market.
Alot of dairy men in the north would be using them

 

[ponderosa]

Lads, just wondering overall through oit the country is many lads with sph 's putting on addivtives for farmers .here in leitrim cavan longford border area they wouldn't hear of putting on anything through the harvestor for us.is that similar in other parts.2nd cut could have done with it yesterday as sugars was extremily low and what additives are most using.
As we have a long winter here we hope to get good silage especially for the autumn calvers.off to slurry meadows for 3rd cut now.
Any info appreciated.had been advised to use ecyosil from volac

Have heard of a few farmers putting on their own additive. For pit you wouldnt have to do every swarth either. Sure i saw something somewhere a farmer dribbling molasses out of a barrel on swarths

 

[scoffcruddle]

Have heard of a few farmers putting on their own additive. For pit you wouldnt have to do every swarth either. Sure i saw something somewhere a farmer dribbling molasses out of a barrel on swarths

Years ago someone used to advertise a tank that you picked up with the buckrake,you then dribbled molasses on the pit,not a bad idea really.

 

[ponderosa]

We used to use buckets back in the day. Pure hardship

 

[gone]

Years ago someone used to advertise a tank that you picked up with the buckrake,you then dribbled molasses on the pit,not a bad idea really.

Back in the mid Seventies, when my father was dairying, we had a Kennan molasses applicator, we use to put it on a 135 and you could coat each layer of the pit. It was also used as a molasses lick during the winter.

 

[scoffcruddle]

Going back early 80s we used F100 Acid sold by a firm called fsl bells,it absolutely wrecked the forager,did end up putting on up the spout.

 

[headcase]

Do the additives have any affect on the pickup/rotor and/or wagon body. I don't think anyone has an applicator on a baler, wagon or harvester around me

All bugs I wont use acids

 

[recycled]

Do the additives have any affect on the pickup/rotor and/or wagon body. I don't think anyone has an applicator on a baler, wagon or harvester around me

the old add f was apparently brutal on the steel think most of the newer addative usually dont cause bother
comes and goes with us we've gon years without anyone putting anything on then you get 1 or 2 wanting it , usually that requires a new pump as the old 1 seized solid from lack of use

 

[headcase]

the old add f was apparently brutal on the steel think most of the newer addative usually dont cause bother
comes and goes with us we've gon years without anyone putting anything on then you get 1 or 2 wanting it , usually that requires a new pump as the old 1 seized solid from lack of use

AddF was evil stuff
Used to turn the roofs of JD cart tractors blue

 

[gone]

Then they started pumping it on, that was some dirty job.

Only had the misfortune of using one once, the Kennan applicator was rusted out, the bloody yoke didn't work properly and ended up using watering cans with the rose removed and most of it went on the top before covering.