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what is a tube wapper?
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<blockquote data-quote="Beefy" data-source="post: 260286" data-attributes="member: 57"><p>you have to keep the holes out so there is an anaerobic environment in there aand whatever is inside will cook itself. i suppose you can put as many bales in there as you have or until you run out of plastic. we arent doing this anymore (well at least not this year) but we liked to keep each cutting from different fields of whatever in different tubes so that when we tested it if there was a problem we didnt have to worry about the whole tube. the roll on each end is usually not feedable b/c it is exposed to oxygen so it doesnt ferment right or whatever but we usually use rolls from the year before of nogood rolls to start and end a tube. when you get ready to feed you just go pick one up out of the roll with a fork and the plastic breaks off there. once you start feeding a tube you need to go ahead and feed it till its gone b/c the oxygen will start getting in the new roll that is exposed. when you cut the plastic off it usually either smells like beer, wine, or something died in there. we had a problem the last year we did it with bermuda growing thru the plastic and bobcats and squirrels digging holes thru it. fixed that up with, you guess it, duck tape.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Beefy, post: 260286, member: 57"] you have to keep the holes out so there is an anaerobic environment in there aand whatever is inside will cook itself. i suppose you can put as many bales in there as you have or until you run out of plastic. we arent doing this anymore (well at least not this year) but we liked to keep each cutting from different fields of whatever in different tubes so that when we tested it if there was a problem we didnt have to worry about the whole tube. the roll on each end is usually not feedable b/c it is exposed to oxygen so it doesnt ferment right or whatever but we usually use rolls from the year before of nogood rolls to start and end a tube. when you get ready to feed you just go pick one up out of the roll with a fork and the plastic breaks off there. once you start feeding a tube you need to go ahead and feed it till its gone b/c the oxygen will start getting in the new roll that is exposed. when you cut the plastic off it usually either smells like beer, wine, or something died in there. we had a problem the last year we did it with bermuda growing thru the plastic and bobcats and squirrels digging holes thru it. fixed that up with, you guess it, duck tape. [/QUOTE]
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