Round Bales

He's using a film of plastic instead of the net, more expensive than net but people that use it swear by it

Mould issue could be silage not wilted/tedder consistently as in its quite dry but you have intermittent damp grass

Used the plastic film the past 2 years and would never go back. As tanko said there are so many variables that can contribute to waste and most of them occur once the bale is dropped out of the wrapper.

The 2 biggest factors are rough handling and pest damage birds, cats and dogs

On the rough handling, bale handlers with net wrap has a tendency to pinch the plastic where it sits on the tube of the handler. This increases exposure to air when the bale is toppled on its end. This damage is increased by the pilot and tends to be greatest when there is only one bale at a time that can be hauled in

Cats are notorious for climbing on bales and the claws can create small pin holes. I have even seen dogs running on top of bales stacked in the yard.

On the hauling one at the time. Majority of the time is a rush to get these hauled in. This increases the speed and let's the bale rock more on the handler. That's before bales falling off handlers, light 2wd drive tractors with the front rearing due to the weight and the bale on the back scraping on the ground. Most folks with double handlers and a bale on a loader tend to travel slower, this helps a lot. I have once even seen a guy roll old carpet on the bale trailer.

All of the above help greatly, but the biggest has to be a pilot with their head screwed on drawing in bales. After all you are relying on 4 layers of 25 micron plastic stretched to 70%. This leaves a total of approx 0.085mm of plastic covering the bale

Those balers that can use the film can also use net….but it’s a very limited number of balers that can use the film. It’s mainly newer Fusions and similar combi balers that use it.

Typically wrappers following balers are operated by youngsters in a awful hurry through life.seen many off them here over the year's, the half of them at best might do what their asked & put on the extra wrap,the rest not.

Always go for extra wrap here on bales. Come winter when opening it may not always be evident on the bale, but I'd know by the lighter wrap when rolling it up, most bales with some mould would have the less wrap on them.

Nrf on a small number here, would think it good job if you were having recurring problems with net bales.it was €1 extra in 2021,can't see it still only been that this year?nets easier & quiter taken of a bale in my opinion if dealing in big numbers

12

I was thinking ten.

Sound lads I was think 15 per bale myself as it would be 10 bales even, he saw me out of a hole and I'm glad to be able to repay the compliment but there are as many bales here as he needs, I won't see him short

Is it only the kuhn balers that can do this?