Big Bale Silage

[smallclaas]

Here's a handy and cheap way of making big bale grass silage or whole crop bales. Just get a lenght of 1inch strip timber and cut it into 2 inch lenghts, curve the edges with a sander and then wrap in insulating tape, hey presto one wrapped big bale. I've put the Britains/Ertl bale beside the wrapped one to give a comparision.

[SMurF]

Like your thinking cheep and efective

[smallclaas]

Like your thinking cheep and efective

I reckon I'll get 100 bales from two lenghts of timber, working out when wrapped at about 10p each not bad, pity the real ones are not as cheap to make

[ruskigman]

Like your thinking cheep and efective

as long as there not too heavy as the britains telehandlers like the john deere wont lift them! but like you said simple and cheap

[MJB1]

have you seen this stuff SC this is really light & i based then loosely on d1000 bales ,the loader will handle them really well & even my jcb 520 will hold them up & the rams are so crap it won't hold the flat 8 with bales in for more than a few seconds . once the bales have been spiked the holes stay there for good ,so they can be rehandled 

[smallclaas]

Saw them Mjb1 there the ones you made from insulation? I made these just to lie around. I want them for the front of my new pit to hold the barrier in place. I was looking for dowel today to try and make roundies but could'nt find any the right size.

[MJB1]

if it's for decoration only try getting hold of some swimming aids that is available ,it comes in different sizes & dimentions & then just cut them to length for round bales .

try this link , the yellow ones arn't bright  but would look good as straw & the green for baled silage

http://www.gb-sports.co.uk/water_woggle.jpg

[SMurF]

Saw them Mjb1 there the ones you made from insulation? I made these just to lie around. I want them for the front of my new pit to hold the barrier in place. I was looking for dowel today to try and make roundies but could'nt find any the right size.

get a bog roll and fill it with expanding foam      light and round and roughly the right size        could also make sausage wraped silage out of it

[NCC]

Tree stakes chopped up with a Jig saw, a few cracks are starting to apper now though due to the heat, moisture etc \ \

[SMurF]

but they look like lumps of wood    how do you bale them then

[NCC]

With a Welger RP 320 via a wood chipper :D :D

[MODELFARMER]

Welger all the way eh nath!!

Bale anything with them!!!

[new holland driver]

i use bog rolls for mine cheap easy and quik to make 

[Mike R]

what about using Polystyrene it nice and light and what do you use to wrap them up ?

[new holland driver]

black eletric tape

[Mike R]

ok I will try that when i make some next thanks

[Guest scot_models]

How about cement stuck in a round thing or sqaure till it sets and then paint em yellow or what ever?.

[Mike R]

too heavy

[Guest scot_models]

true but so are silage bales and with Nath in loader with his pink thong it will be fine

[NCC]

I'll be carting in my titty pink fastrac with titty pink artic and my titty pink thongs and overalls on, thankyou :D :D

[smallclaas]

This topic is getting scary :D

[Guest scot_models]

Getting very thongy

[FB]

going OT with to much pink.....

nice bales though, i'll try something lighter  \ \ as the loaders will need to stay up :)

[Tractorman810]

what about rolled foam,which can be bound with fishing net or similar,would be light and reasonabbly realistic to if painted

[smallclaas]

I was thinking about using aeroboard cut with a core drill bit and wrapped in black insulation tape, let ye know how I got on.

[FB]

I was thinking about using aeroboard cut with a core drill bit and wrapped in black insulation tape, let ye know how I got on.

what is used on farmmodels.net ??? \