What is your silage operation?

How do you chop your haylage/corn silage?

I don't like/need to make silage
2
3%
Grass - loading wagon or baler
29
40%
Grass - pull trailer behind chopper
6
8%
Grass - chopper on worker/Courseplay, player run trailer
6
8%
Grass - trailers on AutoDrive, player run chopper
0
No votes
Grass - multiplayer
1
1%
Grass - hands free automation
2
3%
Corn - pull trailer behind chopper
9
12%
Corn - chopper on worker/Courseplay, player run trailer
12
16%
Corn - trailers on AutoDrive, player run chopper
3
4%
Corn - multiplayer
1
1%
Corn - hands free automation
2
3%
 
Total votes: 73

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What is your silage operation?

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How do you chop silage for Farming Simulator? Created a poll with two options so you can choose a grass option and corn option, unless you don't make any silage. I personally like chopping haylage (grass) with a pull type chopper, so I do everything myself besides the tractor sitting at the blower, then for corn silage it's either the pull type again, or on bigger operations I will run the chopper myself and have tractors hauling to and from the farm.
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Bale square bales that are wrapped, so far have pulled a chopper box behind a pull type a few times, hope to run some type of courseplay set up with a SPFH sometime.
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We do both grass and corn in multiplayer, me and my mother-in-law's wife run choppers or mowers, and nieces run loading wagons and trailers. My wife, her mom and sister-in-law do the compacting.
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I make grass and wrap it for the silage. I don't do Corn for Silage through.
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I have tried a couple different paths for silage and this is the most efficient I have been able to come up with without going deep into courseplay.
  • Triple mower or similar that windrows (player, cruise at 18 kph)
  • Large square baler following the mower (bale capacity set to 10k, follow me)
  • Large square bale wrapper following the baler (modded to wrap faster, follow me)
  • Autoload large square bale trailer
  • If using BGA, edit to process a higher volume and to accept silage bales
I don't do corn because it is manpower intensive and has to replanted. I also don't like silage bunkers for the same reason. I've done "loose" silage with a fermenting silo and loading wagons/chopper, but has it turns into a lot of driving.
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Playing on Autumn Oaks DFMEP. I’m using a pull type chopper for grass, triticale and corn. I run the chopper, and I use Auto Drive to haul the wagons back to the tower silos.

Once I get more cows and land I will probably upgrade to a self propelled chopper.
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I mostly chop corn, but I do bale and wrap a small amount of grass as well. I do all the grass work myself and as for the corn silage, auto drive runs the chopper boxes and courseplay or vanilla workers and I take turns running the chopper while I level the pile off and help get the inevitable lost sheep back on track

Edit: I use a tractor, usually a four wheel drive, with a front blade to level and pack
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I'm also interested to read what people do for unloading the bunker.
I really like using a wheel loader manually (using wheel and joysticks), but it gets too repetitive for 2mil litres of silage.
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I use AutoDrive or Courseplay for that. Both works pretty fine with the latest versions.
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george.earlslight wrote: Fri Oct 15, 2021 7:52 am I'm also interested to read what people do for unloading the bunker.
I really like using a wheel loader manually (using wheel and joysticks), but it gets too repetitive for 2mil litres of silage.
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I do that too as I have a similar setup to yours.
When I'm bored and playing solo, I pick a Grimme conveyor belt with a smaller one, and fill a large trailer with it to help.
In a hurry I make a path of conveyor from the bunker into the BGA plant.

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Largest chopper available. 2 of Largest semi trailer available. 1 hooked on a dolly with chopper pulling hired worker. Another with semi running to dump. Unhook trailer and swap. Chopper almost always going. 1 person
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I chose the grass loading trailer and pull behind chopper. That's the preferred methods but I can see myself using all the console options at some point. Everyone who says auto drive makes me jealous
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Re: What is your silage operation?

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I'm running a small self propelled silage chopper pulling a silage box. The grass is through a pickup head, it's pretty rare I direct chop anything other than corn.

I unload my bunkers using the Liebherr 622 with the CSZ silage fork (12,000l.) The maneuverability is hard to beat and it handles pretty well with a couple adjustments on PC.
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Normally, bales.
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I automate everything with courseplay. Sometimes I bale it with the Kuhn baler/wrapper. But usually I run a swath dropping mower. Loading wagons use the mower route plus delivery to bunkers. I sometimes have 6 tractors running on courseplay to do it all. 2 mowers, 3 loading wagons, and a compactor in the bunker.
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