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<blockquote data-quote="SRBeef" data-source="post: 879668" data-attributes="member: 7509"><p>No, I have not made any baleage with it. I have also heard you can do it by wrapping over the corners then pushing the bales together very tight. I would suggest you try it as a small scale experiment before doing a lot. You also need to get the bales up on a dry surface if you are going to try that. I am wrapping to try to minimize waste and make it easier to feed in the snow and ice.</p><p></p><p>I am very particular about removing net wrap completely even in the snow and ice. I don't want my cattle eating plastic. Wrapping the OD with the plastic really makes the netwrap easier to remove.</p><p></p><p>Here is a picture of typical conditions for much of the winter in Wisconsin:</p><p></p><p><img src="http://i1108.photobucket.com/albums/h414/SRBeef1/SnowcoveredunwrappedbalesinJanuary_1.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /></p><p></p><p>I do not have nor am I likely to ever have a hay shed. Wrapping makes feeding a lot easier and faster when bales are covered like this in Jan and Feb and sometimes into March. I just pickup a wrapped bale on my loader spear and drop it and the ice and snow come off. There is little or no waste and I can easily get the netwrap off. </p><p></p><p>Without wrapping the netwrap is often frozen on and into the bale sometimes requiring me to cut a fair amount of hay away to make sure I can get all of the wrap off.</p><p></p><p>The down side to wrapping is that it takes me 10 or 15 minutes per bale to take each bale off of the trailer, wrap each one and place it in line when I am working by myself. I am getting better and developing a system for wrapping as I take them off of the trailer but it is slow. This year due to time limitations I only wrapped maybe half of my bales - these I will use the second half of the winter.</p><p></p><p>The first couple bales I fed earlier this month were left over from last year and in surprisingly good condition given all the rain we have had and sitting outside for over a year.</p><p></p><p>Jim</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="SRBeef, post: 879668, member: 7509"] No, I have not made any baleage with it. I have also heard you can do it by wrapping over the corners then pushing the bales together very tight. I would suggest you try it as a small scale experiment before doing a lot. You also need to get the bales up on a dry surface if you are going to try that. I am wrapping to try to minimize waste and make it easier to feed in the snow and ice. I am very particular about removing net wrap completely even in the snow and ice. I don't want my cattle eating plastic. Wrapping the OD with the plastic really makes the netwrap easier to remove. Here is a picture of typical conditions for much of the winter in Wisconsin: [img]http://i1108.photobucket.com/albums/h414/SRBeef1/SnowcoveredunwrappedbalesinJanuary_1.jpg[/img] I do not have nor am I likely to ever have a hay shed. Wrapping makes feeding a lot easier and faster when bales are covered like this in Jan and Feb and sometimes into March. I just pickup a wrapped bale on my loader spear and drop it and the ice and snow come off. There is little or no waste and I can easily get the netwrap off. Without wrapping the netwrap is often frozen on and into the bale sometimes requiring me to cut a fair amount of hay away to make sure I can get all of the wrap off. The down side to wrapping is that it takes me 10 or 15 minutes per bale to take each bale off of the trailer, wrap each one and place it in line when I am working by myself. I am getting better and developing a system for wrapping as I take them off of the trailer but it is slow. This year due to time limitations I only wrapped maybe half of my bales - these I will use the second half of the winter. The first couple bales I fed earlier this month were left over from last year and in surprisingly good condition given all the rain we have had and sitting outside for over a year. Jim [/QUOTE]
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