RDFF
Well-known member
I've dealt with plastic wrapped bales... bought about 50 of 'em on the spring auction last year. I'd never want to have to deal with that much plastic, ... was alot harder to work with than even the frozen bottom netwrap. However, it DOES shed the ice etc. pretty nicely... but it's still "wet"... and a much wetter mess than net. Just too much material to have to deal with and dispose of.
I put the netwrap in my tractor cab, and I unroll 10 or more bales a day sometimes when I'm out there feeding. At one point I thought that wrapping would be the cat's meow... but no longer. Mainly, I wish everybody that I get bales from would store their netwrapped bales inline end to end and up on a parallel row of posts, like Jeanne-Simme Valley said. When I do that, I have almost NO trouble with muddy bottoms or removing the netwrap. ALOT lower cost than plastic wrapping too. Around here, they charge something like $10/bale or more for inline wrapping. Most do it because they're making silage bales.
I put the netwrap in my tractor cab, and I unroll 10 or more bales a day sometimes when I'm out there feeding. At one point I thought that wrapping would be the cat's meow... but no longer. Mainly, I wish everybody that I get bales from would store their netwrapped bales inline end to end and up on a parallel row of posts, like Jeanne-Simme Valley said. When I do that, I have almost NO trouble with muddy bottoms or removing the netwrap. ALOT lower cost than plastic wrapping too. Around here, they charge something like $10/bale or more for inline wrapping. Most do it because they're making silage bales.