recommended trailer for hauling bales

[☆ True Patriot]

I am needing to sell, well, a ton of silage bales. Any recommended trailers?

[Tregon]

I prefer self loading ones, more expensive but it is faster to load and unload. Two models, one for square one for round, in unmodded game IIRC, both carry 24 bales when full.

[☆ True Patriot]

Originally posted by Tregon:

I prefer self loading ones, more expensive but it is faster to load and unload. Two models, one for square one for round, in unmodded game IIRC, both carry 24 bales when full.

Tregon you are a wealth of knowledge. It takes so much time baling, wrapping, and fermenting to get silage is it faster to make silage in a bunker and get it with a forage harvester and sell it that way?

[Nomad]

Originally posted by TruePatriot:

Originally posted by Tregon:

I prefer self loading ones, more expensive but it is faster to load and unload. Two models, one for square one for round, in unmodded game IIRC, both carry 24 bales when full.

Tregon you are a wealth of knowledge. It takes so much time baling, wrapping, and fermenting to get silage is it faster to make silage in a bunker and get it with a forage harvester and sell it that way?

You have to take into account that you have to load it on a trailer, after it is fermented, to take it to a selling point. That is a timeconsuming task too.

You can automize both variants with autodrive and courseplay, though.

[Zayrie]

auto trailer bailing is what i use, fast and easy, reccomand especially if you are at the end game of your main map

[Tregon]

Originally posted by TruePatriot:

Originally posted by Tregon:

I prefer self loading ones, more expensive but it is faster to load and unload. Two models, one for square one for round, in unmodded game IIRC, both carry 24 bales when full.

Tregon you are a wealth of knowledge. It takes so much time baling, wrapping, and fermenting to get silage is it faster to make silage in a bunker and get it with a forage harvester and sell it that way?

Bales save few steps. Namely hauling everything to prism and then compressing and finally loading into wagons to haul it onward. You also cannot add into prism after you cover it, so you have to collect all grass you intend to use until you finally cover it. And driving over the piled grass can be bit challenging at times.

Bales require baling, then I collect the bales and drop them near area where I work to ferment while opening up the grass for next mowing in couple months. I recall silage price being highest sometime around December to January, so last bales should have fermented by then as grass does not grow during winter.

There is difference in use of silage additives, as forage wagons for example can have it installed along with use of additive liquid and it results in small increase in final silage amount. At least fastbaler which I use does not offer that possibility with bales IIRC. But it can run uninterrupted like square balers and do wrapping at same time.

So all in all, I would say total time is close to dameo, I give slight advantage to bales while prism might get small quantity advantage with additives. For me convenience wins the game for bales.

[Tregon]

Of course, if you want to go be serious silage emperor, you forget grass completely. At least almost. Forage harvester (can fit silage addition), field of corn and turning it into chaff makes huge amounts of silage but only works with prisms since you cannot bale it.

For me grass silage is kind of minor additional income and thing to do while waiting for harvest or sowing.

You can chaff other crops too, but corn comes with biggest quantity gained so for me it makes no sense to use other crops.

[vipersan]

You can try out the Roland trailer pack on official modhub. There are autoload trailers in there and you can also hook them up to each other. Found it very usefull for my big bale transport needs ;).

an example: https://ibb.co/SnDRjX6

[Wizard]

I'm currently playing on Western Wilds. That BGA produces methane from silage. My grass field currently produces around 112 bales per harvest, four times a year.

I'm using 220cm square bales. A helper drives the Krone Big M, the baler is on an auto drive course, and I follow the baler with the wrapper. I pick up the bales with the Acousin square bale trailer.

I haven't timed it, but each harvest takes about 45 mins or so. I don't use autoload.

Each harvest brings in about 600k.

Basically, on Western Wilds, the BGA lets you print money.

[Wizard]

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2841016172