Author Topic: Weight of haylage? (Read 1596 times)

Penninehillbilly · « **on:** August 21, 2018, 08:33:32 pm »

Hi, not sure where to ask this, please move if appropriate.
We are going to buy quite a bit of haylage in, but getting s few first, borrowing a truck to carry them. Obviously don't want to overload, so does anyone have a rough idea of weight of average large bale haylage, presuming it was got in dryish. Thanks.

SallyintNorth · « **Reply #1 on:** August 21, 2018, 08:50:46 pm »

Could be anything between 1/3 tonne and a tonne. Sorry, that’s not a great deal of help!

Badger Nadgers · « **Reply #2 on:** August 21, 2018, 08:58:25 pm »

I work on the basis of 400kg but they may well be lighter this year. If you can get any.

Rupert the bear · « **Reply #3 on:** August 21, 2018, 09:26:05 pm »

a length of string comes to mind , SallyintNorth has it, depends on the moisture content and the density the bale was made at .
My mini round bales could weigh up to 70kg if I made them really dense .
I think its a case of loading and looking at the truck