Anything to do with moving any shape and size of a bale takes a bit of effort .Most dairy lads now have very little spare time for any type of tractor work.
this^^They have time but they wont do it.
2 trailers and a loader hired in is minimum of 120/hour. How many bales and hour can you move with that system?I load in the field and contractor lifts off and stacks in the yard or vice versa. For some we'd organise four trailers or a short draw two trailers.
2 trailers and a loader hired in is minimum of 120/hour. How many bales and hour can you move with that system?
I was just saying the way I do it. I'm not trying to knock your system . I never really worked it out tbh but the four trailers were keeping me going from 4 miles away , but 4 miles of the worst roads in the country.
I take offence to that ..
I live on the last bit .
Yep . They are middling enough . A good few narrow bends .
You could get a pit contractor draw the grass for you instead 😉.
Signed.
Not a bale lover .com.
It gets right bad after my Gate 😃😅
Thats so that a big dairy farmer like yourself doesn't try to expand down our Borden.
Not knocking anybody's system, I'm just curious how it works cost wise.I was just saying the way I do it. I'm not trying to knock your system . I never really worked it out tbh but the four trailers were keeping me going from 4 miles away , but 4 miles of the worst roads in the country.
Not knocking anybody's system, I'm just curious how it works cost wise.
Some say I'm expensive, some say I'm cheap. I'm just wondering how an alternative system would work (cost/bale) for a lot less money invested.
Great point. Its a huge capital investment and its annoying to see them sit for 5 months of the year. On the plus side, they have a long service life.The other thing not being discussed here is the actual capital investment.
a trailer an be used all year round, theoretically you could have the same trailer draw silage, corn, clay, fertiliser, spud boxes, livestock, all owned at less money than a dedicated chaser.
if you are a outfit that has work for trailers all year round a chaser is less of a ‘no brainer’ in my opinion.
i do not doubt that the chaser is the most efficient way to move round bales, i’d just speculate that it is not the most cost efficient machine to own, unless you are like @wheatwhacker is suggesting that you could make almost a fulltime in season job out of it.
I taught you were only out of college yourself?. Instead I get a couple of young lads mad for work
Correct, but between messing on the farm for a while before college and spending 6 years in college then I do be calling them young lads now 😆I taught you were only out of college yourself?
The problem with the bale lifters I see is that if there's a big amount of bales your crippled from continually going through gaps ectI have 2 lads to move bales for me sometimes during the summer. 40-45 an hour is what they charge. That’s either with a trailer or if close enough to yard just the loader and rear lifters.
the lifters works out at about a euro a bale.
the trailer can be anything obviously depending on length of draw but typically 2.50 a bale would cover it
You move a lot of bales with that setup.The problem with the bale lifters I see is that if there's a big amount of bales your crippled from continually going through gaps ect
Normally this is what we do in them kinda jobs put 3 on the back and two on the front and draw with the loading shovel too.
If we were wrapping at the stack then I'd definitely have a chaser
Jaysus if you were told to line them up, the wrapper be a few hours behind the baler waiting for bales. That wouldn't sit right with me one bit tbh. The wrapper imo is better off chasing the baler. Usually get a bale wrapped before the next bale is madeYer lucky to have the option of a contractor drawing the bales in wheither a euro a bale or ten euro to bring them in.dont know of anyone providing that service.there is a man with a keltec trailer near cavan but that over an hour on a tractor.
Alot of contractors round me wont wrap them til there " lined up ".
Im normally baling at their off peak and mostly their 1st bales of the yr and i have quit lineing them up.to much time lost and tramping bringing all to one area.would have alot stacked before you'd get to draw in