Silage Bagger For Big Square Blades

Silage Bagger For Big Square Blades CROP STORAGE Bag Silos 18-3-12 Oregon hay producer Chuck Nofziger says he's tried a variety of hay harvesting methods over the years but says his present system of putting big square bales into bags to make haylage is the best he's tried. Nofziger makes 6-ft. long 38 by 46-in. bales using a Freeman 1592 baler. He puts 66 bales into a tube-type silage bag using a bagging frame he designed himself and now manufactures for sale. His bale bagging frame lets him stack bales 2-high. He puts two bales into the frame using spears on a front-end loader, and then pulls the frame ahead to make room for two more. The process is repeated until the tube is filled. Then, using a modified leaf blower, air is sucked out and the bag sealed. The only modification he made to his Freeman baler to handle the high-moisture bales - he bales at between 55 and 75 percent moisture - was to Teflon coat the bale chamber to get bales to slide out better. When making the bales, he sets up his bale bagger nearby so he can get bales into the bag within about 10 min. after they're baled. One advantage of making bale silage out of square bales, as opposed to round bales, is that square bales make it easier to get all the air out of the bag. He sells his bale silage to a pair of large dairy operations about 200 miles`away. Contact: FARM SHOW Followup, Chuck Nofziger, P.O. Box 36, Christmas Valley, Oregon 97641 (ph 503 576-2554; fax 503 576-2502).

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