Silage bags

plow hand · Mar 18, 2017

It seems a lot of guys are turning to plastic to store silage haylage etc.How do you get it out of there with out tearing it?Ive seen a lot of plastic balled up and wasted just curious.

Sparktrician · Mar 18, 2017

You don't, it's a one time use deal

Leroy · Mar 18, 2017

My question is how do you move them after they are wrapped without destroying them?

kevinecwi · Mar 18, 2017

Loader tractor or skidsteer. Not sure I'd want one, lowlifes around here are taking a knife and slitting the bags open! Wildlife also disturb them once they figure out what's inside.

farmerwithmutt · Mar 18, 2017

Around here there is company's that put dumpsters out for recycling. Where i work they reload shipping containers with plastic and send it back to china.

plow hand · Mar 18, 2017

Are there any issues with cattle eating pieces of plastic?

Donald Lehman · Mar 18, 2017

The ease of removing silage from ag bags depends a lot upon the skill of the loader operator. Jeff used to work for a fellow who used ag bags for silage. He had very little problem scooping out the silage and leaving a layer of the plastic on the ground as smooth as you please. However, any time he had a day off, he would come back to the plastic all wadded up and a complete mess and about three days worth of feeding to get the stuff smoothed back out again. Drove him bonkers. Lol!

Ken Macfarlane · Mar 18, 2017

It does get torn, part of chores is cleaning it up.

I've head of guys using an old square baler to bale the plastic. Locally they recycle it into plastic lumber or something like that.

Bruce from Can. · Mar 18, 2017

Bags work good and you can save the plastic from the top 2/3 with a bit of imagination , and use it for other things.

Phil9N3667 · Mar 18, 2017

I work in vehicle maintenance for the world's largest pork producer (starts with Sm,ends in ld ) and we use 250' and 300' silage bags to store corn, wheat and milo to make hog feed. We have a special debagging machine that hooks up to a tractor and might lose five bushels, if that much. It winds the bag up on a reel and then it's rewound into a roll about four foot in diameter, 30"-36"high. A company buys the bags to recycle, so it works good for us. The bagging/debagging machines come a company called Akron, I believe built in Argentina.

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