Storing silage wraps

J DEERE

Just wondering how everyone stores and collects the wrap off round bales once they take it off? Was thinking of getting one of those large wheelie bins with the 4 wheels for the job. Have about 4-500 wraps each year. Normally tie pallets together and stack against a wall. Anyone do it any different?

moy83

we have two bars bolted onto a wall of the shed , hang one of the big nut bags off them and pack the plastic into it they take a good few wraps

polod

moy83 wrote: »

we have two bars bolted onto a wall of the shed , hang one of the big nut bags off them and pack the plastic into it they take a good few wraps

Thats a very good idea ....how many wrap would a half tonne bag roughly hold ? and when they are collecting it do you have to cut off the bags ?

reilig

J DEERE wrote: »

Just wondering how everyone stores and collects the wrap off round bales once they take it off? Was thinking of getting one of those large wheelie bins with the 4 wheels for the job. Have about 4-500 wraps each year. Normally tie pallets together and stack against a wall. Anyone do it any different?

Only problem with a bin is getting the plastic out of it. It can often attract vermin too as its warm and dry. They're lovely guys to have scurrying around the place when you're emptying.

We use 4 pallets at one shed, we have a half round metal diesel tank at the other with no bottom. The tank is split down the middle and hinged so when its full, you just open it up from around the plastic and set it up again for the next lot.

At the other shed we have one of these - which is the same principle as the tank:

http://nationalfarmersrecyclingservice.com/about-solway-recycling/

(see the bin half way down the page)

moy83

polod wrote: »

Thats a very good idea ....how many wrap would a half tonne bag roughly hold ? and when they are collecting it do you have to cut off the bags ?

We have a tall bag about six foot high there is at least fifty wraps in there now and its hardly half full . I poke it down with the teleporter everynow and then . Havent emptied it yet because we only started using it last year but those bags usually have yokes on the bottom for the forks so i could tip it upsidedown handy enough

J DEERE

Was thinking how would we empty it alright. Would be handy if we could arrange for the recycling lorry to collect once its full much the same as they collect the rubbish.

That idea with the big bags could merit a bit of research tomorrow