Posted by philip d on August 09, 2017 at 08:09:01 from (142.68.126.16):
In Reply to: Re: Silage bunker??? posted by cumminspuller on August 09, 2017 at 06:36:24:
I've done it a couple different ways depending on the situation. If we're chopping today and the pile won't be finished and there's several days of heavy rain on the way we will pull the plastic over it and hold it down usually with some bales just to keep all the water off it than pull it off and go chopping again. Heavy rain on the fresh uncovered pile will do damage to the nutrients as well. It won't be air tight but will protect it from rain till the weather clears. If were doing a pile and for whatever circumstances its going to be a bunch of days to complete say half way finishing a pile we'll roll the plastic out and stop close to where the face that is still in progress ends and use clay and tires on the completed section. As far as chopping a month apart if it was me I'd cover it airtight as best you can whatever size the pile you complete first will be and leave it be till you start to feed it. These piles to be done with very minimal spoilage seem to require lots of attention to detail to get the best results. We've tried sprinkling barley over piles, taking 2 weeks to make a huge pile than covering it when finished, using bales to hold down plastic basically just sitting on top and rows of bales as a starting wall. All of those resulted in huge amounts of spoilage. Anything we've found here is it cant sit open to air more than a couple of days and the plastic has to be put on tight as an underarmour t-shirt that's 2 sizes too small and stay tight until after you take it off.
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