milo Posted March 5, 2009 Share Posted March 5, 2009 This has been puzzling me for a couple of weeks now.. Have been looking through pictures and videos of 2008 harvest and noticed alot of farmers using Direct Disc headers for wholecrop and it suddenly came to me why don't they use it for silage as well. I am sure I have seen somewhere a picture of a claas forager with direct disc cutting grass. Is it perhaps that grass is much more denser and damp than wholecrop? Would like to know why they don't use it for grass and thought this would be the best place to ask. thanks Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kiwi6920 Posted March 5, 2009 Share Posted March 5, 2009 Main reason two reasons are, Grass needs some wilting time, eg, mowed at 10am, choped at 3pm , The other reason is , cerial paddocks are normaly cleaner, haveing been worked up they tend not to have bumps and rocks Hope thats some help to you Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Simon Posted March 5, 2009 Share Posted March 5, 2009 As Nick says, in the UK we like high dry matter silage, you don't get that from direct chopping... You'd have a lot of effluent to deal with too clamping unwilted grass.. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Deere-est Posted March 5, 2009 Share Posted March 5, 2009 Forward speed too is a factor too. If you think the forager only has to pick up a swath so most of it's horsepower is used to chop and move. If it had to cut the crop with a cutting width of up to 3m, aswell as chop it and move, this would massively affect forward speed. Plus you would have to cover more ground. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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