Kiwi6920 Posted November 16, 2007 Share Posted November 16, 2007 I was just wondering what sort of pit do you normaly have in uk and the rest of the world, Over here in Nz we mainly have out door stacks So what do you have and what do you prefer? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SPN Posted November 16, 2007 Share Posted November 16, 2007 Here's a pair of pics of the farm I did silage on in 2006. Before and after. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Deere-est Posted November 17, 2007 Share Posted November 17, 2007 Outdoor every time. Many round my way are made from railway sleepers though as when the lines were pulled up in the 60's and 70's they were going very cheap. A few posh newly built cocrete types are going up here and there though. Indoor ones are crap with trailers, loaders and herds getting ever bigger. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tractorman810 Posted November 17, 2007 Share Posted November 17, 2007 mixture of indoor and out door round this way, outdoor ones are usally concrete walls or i know of a few built into the hills and polly lined, so basicly holes they fill Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rich.new holland Posted November 17, 2007 Share Posted November 17, 2007 we got an indoor one , you got to tip in the middle every time otherwise good bye roof which i almost did lucky i hit the beam and when we use the powershovel we can only got to the top of the wall then we use the telehandler on it the fill it up Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
james f Posted November 17, 2007 Share Posted November 17, 2007 Thers a good mix of outdoor and indoor shed types around my way, though mostly outdoors. Not all outdoor ones have walls, just a slab like the one Stan put up, or with a bank on one side like our own. When making a pit in a shed, we always tip outside on the ground and then the loader backs out over the silage and pushes it in when the trailer is gone. Personally I think an indoor pit is an awful waste of a shed, especially as very few people let the cows feed from the pit face nowadays, but in lots of cases that's just what is there on the farm and most lads will work away with it rather than have to build a new outdoor slab with provision for effluent run-off and all that in order to gain the use of the shed. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JC Posted November 19, 2007 Share Posted November 19, 2007 I've only ever seen outdoor one's until indoor ones began being posted on here..... I think Farmermarshall's was the first indoor one I saw (posted on here) \ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Light Land Posted November 24, 2007 Share Posted November 24, 2007 I think the silage silo's look nice and tidy,and don't take up much space in the yard. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JohnDeereMan Posted November 24, 2007 Share Posted November 24, 2007 Heres ours, when we did our maize this year. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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