Powered silage clamp rollers making lasagne silage

BRB John

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Mixed Farmer
Location
Aberdeenshire
you’ll have to lie the standard sheets out first though?
No standard sheet required the boy in the pictures has a sheet along the wall but I suspect that's not necessary and just a bad habit.
Plus the chance of a wall sheet blowing away is pretty slim...
I see the motorized one is 60 grand , wow .
Yeah I wonder how much we could do a bodge job at it... Surely it's just a rail plus a big pipe to roll it up and a electric pump/ motor.
I recont maybe 20k and the rest is them just being greedy.

Apparently better to sell one at 60k than 5 at 20k....
 

Whitewalker

Member
No standard sheet required the boy in the pictures has a sheet along the wall but I suspect that's not necessary and just a bad habit.
Plus the chance of a wall sheet blowing away is pretty slim...

Yeah I wonder how much we could do a bodge job at it... Surely it's just a rail plus a big pipe to roll it up and a electric pump/ motor.
I recont maybe 20k and the rest is them just being greedy.

Apparently better to sell one at 60k than 5 at 20k....
Well if you knew what the cover cost you could work back from there however I imagine a cover would cost a fair chunk. I'll not be needing one anyway. Id say if a few sell the neighbour will need one too 🤣
 

JP1

Member
Livestock Farmer
No standard sheet required the boy in the pictures has a sheet along the wall but I suspect that's not necessary and just a bad habit.
Plus the chance of a wall sheet blowing away is pretty slim...

Yeah I wonder how much we could do a bodge job at it... Surely it's just a rail plus a big pipe to roll it up and a electric pump/ motor.
I recont maybe 20k and the rest is them just being greedy.

Apparently better to sell one at 60k than 5 at 20k....
Greedy or seriously working at supplying and servicing a requirement professionally

Jan’s team is now 9 full time

As I’ve just posted I gather the second UK site has a system supplied with the steel gantry made locally
 

BRB John

Member
Mixed Farmer
Location
Aberdeenshire
Greedy or seriously working at supplying and servicing a requirement professionally

Jan’s team is now 9 full time

As I’ve just posted I gather the second UK site has a system supplied with the steel gantry made locally
Well ideally that's what should be happening and they just provide the sheeting.
9 full time staff is alot.
 

Whitewalker

Member
Well ideally that's what should be happening and they just provide the sheeting.
9 full time staff is alot.
I get the idea behind it and the demand for it being quick and easier, it's a smaller scale of milking robots or silage pushers , really your just outsourcing the work through a different way . Some will see it as a great way to fill a gap others will see it as another expense . Everyone's different.
 

Agrifool

Member
There's positives and negatives to the system. The "lasagne " silage I dont think should be promoted everywhere, particularly in wetter climates. All to often you make 1 or 2 good cuts of silage only to have the DM spoiled by wetter later cuts on top.
 

Wesley

Member
There's positives and negatives to the system. The "lasagne " silage I dont think should be promoted everywhere, particularly in wetter climates. All to often you make 1 or 2 good cuts of silage only to have the DM spoiled by wetter later cuts on top.
In an ideal world personally I’d rather have a separate clamp for each cut. So I could decide what & how much I could feed to different groups of animals depending on what is in the clamp. Rather than being forced to feed something because I had no choice & can’t get to the other layers/cuts until one part is used.
 

Agrifool

Member
In an ideal world personally I’d rather have a separate clamp for each cut. So I could decide what & how much I could feed to different groups of animals depending on what is in the clamp. Rather than being forced to feed something because I had no choice & can’t get to the other layers/cuts until one part is used.
I agree, and eventually this is the way I intend to run my system, smaller clamps and more of them. Biggest mistake we ever made was building a big clamp for a few cuts. It suited the contractor but thats about all.
 

JP1

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Livestock Farmer
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