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Chilliwack BC | I took a few calculations this fall when bagging corn silage. We used a 12 foot bagger.
8300 kg's at 55% moisture took up exactly 6' of bag
Mathematically, that works out to 13.5 ft of 8 foot bag.
But 55% was dry and if you adjust the moisture to a normal 72%, the load weighed 13,340 kg. (I hope my math is right)
That comes in at exactly a metric ton per foot for an 8 foot bagger or slightly more than 2 tons per foot for a 12 footer.
We had then tension set tight enough to kink the backrack and rip the cable spool of the frame.
Moisture was determined by a lab.
Weights were measured by a certified scale.
I used a tape measure to measure movenment between loads.
I hope this helps.
Here's a video of it from this fall.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tiDzQsRzNH8 | |
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Silage bag
