Tarp net wrapped bales

SVcummins · Jul 23, 2020

Do you tarp net wrapped round bales ?

Bobl1958 · Jul 23, 2020

Looks like someone has some Musk Thistles that need attention..! LOL! My Dad would have had a stroke if he would see them standing like that. He would take my Brother and I when we were 10 and 12 respectively out to a section pasture we had that had thistles in a couple of locations in the early morning, in the late spring and early summer, and drop us off with 2 shovels and a large water jug. He would come back before noon and pick us back up. Same thing the next day, for close to a couple of weeks digging thistles. That was 50 years ago and I have declared war on them ever since...lol!

On the hay, my opinion would be no more rain than you get I wouldn't worry about tarping them. Just don't stack any on a top row, keep them on the ground in rows. Good luck - Bob

Tx Jim · Jul 23, 2020

Why anyone stacks rd bales without a roof over them with the round sides touching or close together for rainwater to be trapped is a mystery to me.

GordoSD · Jul 23, 2020

On the ground, tight end to end

Roger in Iowa · Jul 23, 2020

Stack like a long tootsie roll. Not like you have with the round sides touching. That traps snow and water and cannot dry out.
What is you rainfall between now and when you feed the bales. If substancial, then you need to cover.

Tech 7 · Jul 23, 2020

In rows end to end set on truck tires. Just the net wrap to cover. In the lee of lake Huron and just north of lake Erie so we do have precipitation, but very minimal losses when stored like this

Kansas4010 · Jul 23, 2020

Just stacked end to end with a small gap on the sides.

danofarming · Jul 23, 2020

No Tarp. I line them up End to End as tight as I can get them. Nothing under neath. When we first started Round bales Years ago we stored them on the ground with space all around, I have since learned different. When you pick one up that has been stuffed tight to the end of another the hay will be dry like the day it was put up. I do not like the tarps, they are TOO hard to keep on and will sweat because the air cannot stir under them. I am in Middle Tennessee 50 plus inch of rain yearly. I have 2 sheds that will hold abut 85 90 rolls and I really like them.

Robert (ID) · Jul 23, 2020

OK i understand the question and the second pic but the first pic might need some explanation..

larry@stinescorner · Jul 23, 2020

Is the first picture Vanessa?

Bruce from Can. · Jul 23, 2020

I run my dry hay bales through the plastic wrapper, just like the wet silage bales. Zero wasted hay, cost me $2.00 per bale for plastic. No frozen hay, and getting net wrap out of frozen hay bale is next to impossible.

cjunrau · Jul 23, 2020

can you tell me who you buy your plastic from.
Mine are costing me 6 bucks in plastic.

racered57 · Jul 23, 2020

(quoted from post at 21:39:35 07/23/20) can you tell me who you buy your plastic from.
Mine are costing me 6 bucks in plastic.

I took this pic because the rolls were wrapped within 3 days of the hay being cut, I really expected the bales to ignite, the field is ready for a second cutting.

racered57 · Jul 23, 2020

(quoted from post at 21:39:35 07/23/20) can you tell me who you buy your plastic from.
Mine are costing me 6 bucks in plastic.

I took this pic because the rolls were wrapped within 3 days of the hay being cut, I really expected the bales to ignite, the field is ready for a second cutting. the plastic is a continuous sleeve.

Bruce from Can. · Jul 23, 2020

I am using an in-line wrapper. Are you using individual bale wrapper? Individual bale wrapping uses a lot of plastic on the ends of the bale

SVcummins · Jul 23, 2020

No she ran off with someone else and she Was never that cute

SVcummins · Jul 23, 2020

I don’t know how she got there

SVcummins · Jul 23, 2020

Fifty inches ?!? I might get 16 in a year

SVcummins · Jul 24, 2020

I bagged some like that on the dairy but they were short bales
like 3.5 feet

SVcummins · Jul 24, 2020

I’d like to have a bale bagger

SVcummins · Jul 24, 2020

That’s how we always did it but we stacked them tight together on the sides and front to back but I’ve never had net wrap before

SVcummins · Jul 24, 2020

Do the mice and stuff get in with them being off the ground

SVcummins · Jul 24, 2020

I bet that we won’t get 8 inches of moisture and a lot of that will be snow

SVcummins · Jul 24, 2020

The thistle In one little corner Is really that’s the fence line where I couldn’t cut need to dig that up again and when they sprout spray . I don’t do much on this piece because it’s for sale

Traditional Farmer · Jul 24, 2020

What little rain you get there in a year doesn't seem it'd matter how you stored them.

cumminspuller · Jul 24, 2020

I tarp mine because I have to stack them. I don't have enough space to set them all in single file rows. The net sheds water a lot better than twine for sure if they are not tarped.

Bud Sather in MT · Jul 24, 2020

set like a can on end with one on top laying on it's side. the bales touch end to end. Bud

Tx Jim · Jul 24, 2020

(quoted from post at 09:05:09 07/24/20) set like a can on end with one on top laying on it's side. the bales touch end to end. Bud

What is your reasoning for setting bottom bales on flat side? Was hay baled way too dry so you want bale to soak up moisture?? I had a neighbor that stacked his rd bales outside as you describe. He only did that method """ONCE""".

cjunrau · Jul 24, 2020

$120 for 30 inch rool

SHALER · Jul 24, 2020

I have seen rolls stacked like Bud describes (kinda looks like mushrooms). It must make sense in dry arid areas with very sandy soil. In my area (eastern US) you would have a worthless mold pile in no time if you did that. Its interesting how if you drive around the USA you see all kinds of different farming practices everywhere dependent on local conditions. Bale stacking/storage is a perfect example. In some areas of the country it is perfectly sensible to stack bales on their ends, blah blah. In other areas, if you did that your neighbors would have you committed. No one size fits all!

SVcummins · Jul 24, 2020

Kinda what I was thinking they’ve been almost 2 weeks without any moisture hopefully they’ve started do develop a crust

Roger in Iowa · Jul 24, 2020

I would not cover. But leave spaces between tootsie rolls. One long roll better than two or more side by side. Snow drifts on adjacent from the upwind row. One row makes a good snow fence.

SVcummins · Jul 25, 2020

They do it that way here all the time and most guys pyramid
stack we never had a loader so we just line stacked em just
wondering how well the net wrap protects them ? Some of
you guys get more rain in a storm than we get in 6 months or
more

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