Help with making tmr without bales

[Perbjorkhem]

So far I have been doing tmr with bales. Easy.
But now I am planning to do it with loose hay etc.
Can someone please give me good tips on how to do it?
What shovel?
How many shovels of each etc...

Many thanks!

[Patrick73]

Use alien Jim’s silo, it accepts hay,straw and silage so load up your mixer from that

[kahfs]

Like for bales it is matter of ratios. I often use Straw:Silage:Hay = 1:1:2, but 1:2:1 would also work. The size of your bucket will determine how many buckets you need. To fill a 16000 L mixer with a 2000 L bucket, you would need 2 buckets each of straw and silage and 4 buckets of hay. As buckets are not 2000 L you will have to top up at the end, if you want to fill the mixer 100%. Normally silage from a pit would be the only loose material used. Straw and hay would normally be bales.

[Azfoor]

Just go 50/50 silage and hay DONE

[FarmCatJenkins]

I believe the mix in game is at least 25% of each; no more than 75% of one. So for the SiloKing 16K it would be 4K silage, 4K straw, 8K hay. I use the big Anderson mixer so I go roughly 7K silage, 7K straw, and top the rest off with hay. Or like Azfoor suggested 50/50 silage and hay if you don’t have straw.

[redglasses]

Just go 50/50 silage and hay DONE

This works and keeps things simple. If you're short on one is particular you can change it. I've done 66/33 using smaller mixers before.

[ThatCanadianGuy]

open the menu on the mixer, there are the slider bars at the bottom, just keep each commodity within the arrows > < and your good.

[ThatCanadianGuy]

Just go 50/50 silage and hay DONE

Doesn't TMR need straw also?

When I was filling out of a silo I would do ~37/37/26 straw

[jasonbarron]

If you're growing a lot of cereal crops wouldn't it make the most sense to utilize as much of the straw as possible for the tmr? If you want a lot of animals and you go the 50/50 hay & silage route you have to factor in the time, money and space required to have dedicated grass fields, whereas with a handful of cereal crops the straw is an abundant byproduct.

[phalken95]

I use the biggest anderson mixer and the smallest lizard (12000l) sugarcane trailer one trailer each of silage and hay rest straw perfect everytime

[Perbjorkhem]

Thanks a lot for all the advice!

I just love this forum. Quick answers on almost anything.

[Boost_GLR]

When I did it with out bales, I just went off the amount a bale holds. I ended up downloading a 4000l silage fork and using that.

[Azfoor]

Just go 50/50 silage and hay DONE

Doesn't TMR need straw also?

When I was filling out of a silo I would do ~37/37/26 straw

No you don't need straw for TMR you can do 33/33/33% straw silage and hay but 50/50 hay and silage works just as good!

[Bryan83]

Straw for TMR is a filler. It's not needed for the recipe, but what it does is takes up some room in the mixer so you can conserve some of your silage and hay. Because of the fermentation time, on an 18K mixing wagon I would do 2 bales hay, one bale straw and then top off with silage, again, just to use less silage in the mix so I could make my supply last longer.

[ace54858]

open the menu on the mixer, there are the slider bars at the bottom, just keep each commodity within the arrows > < and your good.

that only work's if your hoping in and out and between the 2 now if filling from a silo you can see it without hoping in and out now if they could add a way to see it when not in the tractor that the mixer is attached to would be nice. but you use a belt system by pile's of hay and silage so you didn't have to keep hoping in and out to check.