Silage

[postie]

I've been playing for a while and have got some cash together so I decided to get some cows.
So next thing make some silage, I have a wheat field by the cow sheds that I'm harvesting so I leave the straw in rows and pick it up with a loading wagon and of to the silage pits. So now the straw will not unload into the silage pit. I felt sure that wheat and barley straw can be turned into silage. Can anyone tell me exactly what goes into a silage pit please.

[Babylon5]

Only grass or chaff can be used to make silage. In FS15 ther was a mod that could be used on straw to convert it to chaff but am not sure if it made it to FS17

[Kooter]

Straw is used for animal bedding and making bales. Only grass or chaff can be unloaded into pit to make silage.

[postie]

I was watching a youtube clip of a farmer picking up straw with a forage harvester for silage, then I read your posts and took another look, FS15, blast!!
Extra question could you do it with uncut wheat and a forage harvester, same as maize?

[Kooter]

Yes Forage Harvester will turn wheat and barley into chaff. If I'm not mistaken straw can be picked up with Forage Harvester and turns into chaff.

[bigsnag]

there is one mod available named EasyFlow_300_S.zip

or

one can easily edit their own.

first off make a copy of the data directory for safe keeping so one can still play mp.

decide which pickup one wishes to use, krone, new holland or rostselmash or all three it doesn't matter. we'll use nh.

now enter data/vehicles/cutters/newholland and open newHollandPP273.xml in a text editor

look for the line <cutter fruitTypeCategories="pickup" convertedFillTypeCategories="forageHarvester" useWindrowed="true">

and change it to <cutter fruitTypes="grass dryGrass wheat barley" convertedFillTypeCategories="forageHarvester" useWindrowed="true">

save it and jobs done.

now one has a legit chaff cutter.

[bigsnag]

if one prefers to make one's own simple mod instead try this.

open the editor and click file.
choose new mod from game...
in the dialogue that opens click the drop arrow next to item
scroll down about 1/3 the three pickups are together, for up 370, easy flow 300 s, and 300fp
select one, click ok. then click ok again.
close the editor.

the working directory is my docs/my fs17 mods/

for this example we'll use the 300fp

go to where you saved the mod.
open the directory and delete everything except for moddesc.xml and newHollandPP273.xml.

open newHollandPP273.xml in a text editor. one needs to make three(3) edits.

change <image>store_newHollandPP273.png</image> to
<image>$data/store/store_newHollandPP273.png</image>

change <filename>newHollandPP273.i3d</filename> to <filename>$data/vehicles/cutters/newHolland/newHollandPP273.i3d</filename>

this takes care of the model.

change <cutter fruitTypeCategories="pickup" convertedFillTypeCategories="forageHarvester" useWindrowed="true"> to
<cutter fruitTypes="grass dryGrass wheat barley" convertedFillTypeCategories="forageHarvester" useWindrowed="true">


save and close.

open moddesc.xml. one needs to add some lines.

i added

<title>
<en>New Holland 300FP</en>
<de>New Holland 300FP</de>
</title>
<description>
<en>A pickup for all forage types</en>
<de><![CDATA[Ein Pickup für alle Futterarten]]></de>
</description>

and one change.

change <iconFilename>icon.png</iconFilename> to
<iconFilename>$data/store/store_newHollandPP273.png</iconFilename>

save and close.

now zip these two files and drop into one's mod directory.
it will show up in the forage headers at the end identical to the standard one except will also chaff straw.

[postie]

Thanks for all the advice and replies but I'm probably to old to understand a word you have said let alone where it is or what to do, mind you I can still build a car engine. Once again thanks it was good of you all for the advice.

[Kaeru Gaman]

Originally posted by postie:

... Can anyone tell me exactly what goes into a silage pit please.

1) grass - can be mowed with a mower and picked up with a forage wagon.

2) chaff - is small pieces of corn (maize), the whole plant not only the ... corns ...
you harvest it with the machines of the category next to the harvesters.

[postie]

Hi Bigsnag, I went for your file edit first I had no joy with that could'nt make it work. So I then tried the Easy Flow 300 zip file it works a treat. Thanks for all the help.