The Vinyl Wrappings .. ?...

from the round bales, silage bags, HM corn bags ?? Where does this massive amount of waste end up ?? Is it recycled ?, burned in a fire pit?, buried in your backlot ??

DiyDave wrote: Grab a bunch of blue plastic stuff, and re-blue your oval...

Edited by FREEDGUY - 13 Apr 2022 at 6:05pm

Where do YOU think it goes ?  What do YOUR locals do ? ........... that happens EVERYWHERE.

i've used some of that stuff for small tarps, when it gets tore up, it goes in my burn barrell. 

The one here is only salvageable for the burn pile. Or pay a fee for disposal at the land fill.

Or maybe recycle into something Viable for Fun as Fishnet Stockings for the Gils he sees/lives around?

JC-WI wrote: maybe FreeD will go around and collect it freely and put it in a biomass burner... to generate some heat...

 

Edited by FREEDGUY - 14 Apr 2022 at 6:28pm

And I suspect he meant Detriment instead of Determining what he meant by Determinant!!!

I do NOT support the "plastic wrap" ANYTHING from the mid '80's on 

It would be my guess on any given day the amount of plastic consumed in metropolitan America is 100X the plastic consumed by ag for a entire year!  But I'll give it to ya if we just limit grain and silage bags we can save the planet, just like when you drive a electric pickup with a 8 ft box you'll save the planet, meanwhile the people that aren't ignorant will buy energy for a song.

You know fellows this is a perfect example of what's wrong with this world, people that aren't capable at looking at their surroundings will raise a big stink over plastic bags and it would be my guess that some of those bags are biodegradable, yet when they drive by in a vehicle surrounded by plastic, go to work surrounded by plastic, go home surrounded by plastic, the only thing they're worried about is random white plastic bags that will most likely get cleaned up and as they're driving by on roads with ditches full of plastic bottles, bags, and you name it plastic trash etc, they go home to their plastic computer, plastic phone, plastic keyboard and bich that everyone and everything that they know nothing about do it the way they decide, even know they don't have a clue what they're talking about.

dad never used plastic to cover his cribbed corn piles, he would elevate corn cobs up there and cover the pile. it did work, wasn't any spoiled corn in the piles when we went to shell them. 

It'll stay where it lays forever. Have a few pieces show up after discing every year. We covered 250+ 3 & 4 cutting 5'x6' alfalfa bales 1 year in early 1990's, I burnt some, took most to work and put in the dumpster, and a few blew away. Them few are still a pain to me and the renter.

Neighbors tore down 3 Harvestores and made a blacktop pad to pile silage on. Maintenance on the silos was getting to expensive, new unloading chains only lasted 2 years in the 90ft silos. They are chopping the corn wetter then they could put it in the silos, and are making better feed which makes more milk. They couldn't blow the feed in the silos as fast as they could chop with a 6 row chopper, now they can pull up on the blacktop and unload in a minute. They can fill the feed mixer with a couple loader buckets instead of running a couple unloaders and conveyors. Farming has changed. Bags and a bagger are a little more money but you can get away without a concrete or blacktop pad, but there again it takes a big bagger to keep up with a big chopper. Feed quality would be a little better but more work to feed out also.

Edited by DanWi - 15 Apr 2022 at 10:09pm

Would disagree with that, depending on certain circumstances.

I fill my bunker relatively late in the year, and it’s gone by May usually. It’s also relatively tall and narrow, so spoilage isn’t too widespread.   I don’t use vinyl.

Wider silos, silos that are fed out all year long, that might sit close to a year before being opened, can benefit from being covered. Less spoilage, better feed quality, and keeps parasites and diseases from bird poop off the feed.

Edited by Tbone95 - 17 Apr 2022 at 7:44am