Labour Saving and General Guntering

I've always had great results with these Dewalt bits with the pilot nub. Use cutting fluid to protect the bit and you're away

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@Nekarsulm sets the craic with the car in the background?

We have a wagtail vicon and the bushes are worn in it. You can hear it two parishes away. Sounds like a machine gun. Must get it fixed as there is no value in a new one for all we spread.

@Nekarsulm, they're able to peep around corners here

Probably think about using the float switch to trip a contactor.. This reduces the pump being strained running the power all the way to the float switch and back down to the pump.. The pump is fed direct from the contactor beside it, the contactor would be far less susceptable to damage from voltage drop over such a run.

Never seen silage wrap being gathered up like this. Fairly neat way of doing it, but there mustn't be the smell of his stuff that there is of ours. We tend to keep as much distance as possible!

Cutting net with a knife, especially on bales that are still perfectly in shape like that, has to be the slowest and stupidest way of taking it off. Catch the end of the net and walk around the bale unwinding the net is much easier and faster and no net is ever left behind on the bale that way.

The film definitely would be easier no matter how you take off the net but the net is not as big an issue as is being made out in the video.

Around 2 and a half rounds of net is what would be on silage bales so it’s not that many circles and will always be easier than trying to cut it, no matter how sharp the knife is. Also on the last round you shake the net in your hand as you are pulling it off and any silage stuck to the net will fall off and leave the net clean.

Also, depending on how far the baler driver stayed driving after the buzzer for tying went off, you can get a small layer of silage covering the start of the first layer of net on the bale. Then, depending on where you cut the net with a knife, this bit of net can be hidden in the bale. Not too much of a problem in silage as it’ll be seen in the feed passage and picked up, but as someone that spreads dung, it’s a lot of hassle when these bits are in the dung from the straw bales and get caught in the beaters of the spreader. That’ll never happen if lads just walk around the bale to take off the net!

Net and silage will blunt any knife very fast. With dry bales like that whether it's on the ground as is or is on spikes the bale will not fall apart.

If bales are low DM then it's harder to unwrap net and slicing it underneath is probably the easiest solution.

I would tend to unwrap the net as much as possible

I should have really made that attachment to go out to the side of the ibc and be able to drive alongside the swarth. Contractor here rakes ahead of the baler and the swarths are that bit more higher. Plus there's room then to drive alongside the swarth.

Anyway did it.

Field did 14 bales/acre. Fertiliser was 50kg kieserite and three quarters of Field got slurry.

The attachment to the side will be the ibc turned sideways and just a straight pipe out from the tap with one those blocking joiner ends on for the end of the pipe and I'll drill holes this time in the pipe underneath. I have a fair idea by looking now after today what type of flow rate I want.

I only used a third of what I wanted to put out today. That was because the slit wasn't enough and then I was taking a knife to make a hole on each side on the slits. But it is what it is. What's gone out today was better than none.

The pipe is 1 inch normal gauge and that was because the screw on joiner for the ibc was 1 inch in the co-op. But it does flow perfectly in 1 inch.

And the bucket will be left on the loader to put the pipe in to and from the field. That ain't going in the cab of the tractor. 😆

You could but there's a tap anyway on ibc tanks. All you have to do is turn it off.

You're risking damaging the pipe that way. And you do have to get to and from the field.