grain baggers- how to handle used bags?

[poorboy]

I am on my second year with a grain bagger and really like the concept and the way it works, but I struggle with handling the used bags.

They are heavy, slippery and extremely bulky once they are used. I need a way to get them compact and then take them to the landfill??? I tried burning one, but it takes forever to burn it all up and it is not great for the environment. It would be nice to have a machine that would collect it up and compress into a bale and tie it.

How is everyone handling the bulky and 270-300 lbs of bag once it is used, and where are people disposing of the bags?

TIA

[Koldkanuck]

Not sure were you are located, but someone told me Sarcan in Sask. buys them.

[poorboy]

Thanks for the lead.

Biggest problem is getting the used bags packaged small enough to transport anywhere. The won't fit in the back of a pickup truck and are even hard to get compact enough on a 16' flatdeck.

[wade]

I think I recall in my surfing that I saw an extractor (red?) that rolled up the bags as it worked. Would help with one problem but not the disposal end of it.

[lepoubelle]

We used Ag-Bags in UK for grass silage and a recycler collected used bags . He used a modified baler to compress the plastic , feeding it into the baler with a truck mounted Hiab , which then loaded the bales onto his truck .