Gazza Baling at GRASSMEN HQ! 

i agree, seems like a really poor idea. 12 bales at a time, rather slowly and no way of carrying more if you wanted to. quite a high centre of gravity to by the time it folds up

They did say in the video on the bale mover that the man operating the machine was new to the tractor so that might have something with the speed.

Whats the advantage of the plastic? I’m from Australia and no one has a fusion baler locally. I have never heard of plastic for bale wrap out side of on the internet

@@benjaminbauer4883 In a warm climate like Australia i'm guessing bales aren't wrapped & are saved as hay. In wetter climates like here in Ireland, where there's so much rain, then it's normal to wrap the bale in plastic, to ferment & preserve the forage. The outer plastic wrap requires to be recycled & the normal net (that initially wraps the bale), is a different waste stream, so the two must be separated. With the newer film wrap its all one which is much less hassle. In addition, with film around the bale it requires less layers of outer wrap. If you watch a separate baler & wrapper operating, you'll get a better idea.

Thanks, @@hughmarcus1 so its just for waste reduction then? In Australia, we do make silage mainly so that crops can be cut for the best quilty early in the season before we have warm enough weather for hay. Thanks for telling me about the plastic wrap!

@@benjaminbauer4883 It's way more convenient too though. The concept of baled (& wrapped silage) took off about 30yrs. It provided a solution on smaller Irish farms that didn't have big silage pits (or the finances to build them). Interestingly baled silage is now a part of larger farms too as it provides a lot of flexibility, some grazing paddocks grow too quickly & the farmer can take a quick cut of silage using bales & get the paddock back into a grazing rotation. My baling contractor is a dairy farmer with a diverse & scattered area of rented land. He initially bought a baler to give him that flexibility & recruited some of his neighbours to offset the cost of the blazer & wrapper. He's been so popular that he's now added a second baler to his fleet. Big difference from Australia, I suspect.

thats dry matter of 43% thats pretty good

Patrick Barry but isn’t hay 16?

The odd Farmer Hay is hay, silage is silage 👍🏻

Have they a big fleet??

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