I am thinking of buying a forage wagon to fit behind around 100hp tractor and then buckraking with a telescopic curantly have a jcb 526 we do around 100acres a year. Does anyone run this sort of system and would the telescopic be big enough. People tell me they would be no good but is that just because it not fasionable because it is not big like you would run for a self propeled forager.

You'll be fine, a chopper wagon doesn't go quick enough to warrant a big loader, just take your time rolling the clamp in, and cut the grass early, I've seen those wagons struggle with older tough grass.

Then laugh at neighbours paying a fortune for a contractor to come in when it's raining and cut their fields up making bad silage!!

I agree with Bovril, as long as you don't have to travel too far to the fields. We used to use a wagon but half the fields were about a mile away, down a rough track. It didn't half slow the job down. We use a contractor now....only machine we need now is a biro to write the cheque at the end !

Welshnwilling I have a biro (well used), you need a lend.

mursal:

Welshnwilling I have a biro (well used), you need a lend.

 

No,but thanks, the bank supply me with biro's, the more you owe, the more they send.

don't do it!!

we used a telehandler to buck rake maize this year (monster yield didn't help matters) and even though the forager was 2 miles away the 4 trailers swamped the machine (and the yard) the machine couldn't cope overheated and died.

The contractors JD6000 with buckrake cleared the yard ( stacked 12ft high with maize ) in 1/2 an hour and we were back in the game later that afternoon.

lesson learnt!!

with relation to your comment the previous farm i worked on used a manitou to buckrake silage and maize it kept up with the trailers coming in about 1 every 5 mins from a self propelled BUT you do have to be careful as we did have ocurenses where the radiator grill got cover with grass whic causes it to over heat but it takes 30 seconds to rectify

 I think that you should be fine with your handler for the forage wagon,

What wagon did you have in mind for your tractor, have been thinking of the benifits of them and they seem to be quite positive

Perry

 

I was thinking about a pottinger faro 3500 watched it at grassland with a merlo multifarmer working it and was realy impressed it was clearing grass at a good rate. I liked the control of doing it myself. The thing that realy makes me most interested it my land is in a ring fence and the trip at worst would be a mile by road.

Are there many second hand wagons about because i dont tend to see alot about

Perry