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Payback period of a hay shelter?
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<blockquote data-quote="upfrombottom" data-source="post: 806065" data-attributes="member: 13088"><p>If you figure you lose the outside 3 inches of a 4x5 bale you are losing about 19% of that bale and considering the densest part of the bale is not the center, you could be safe to assume 20%. On a 5x6 bale its around 16 to 17%. Add to that a little more for the bottom frozen to the ground and you could easily justify some kind of shelter. Hay tarps will more than pay for themselves in one season, and if you figured in your labor wrestling them around you could probably justify a permanent structure. But who figures their labor?</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="upfrombottom, post: 806065, member: 13088"] If you figure you lose the outside 3 inches of a 4x5 bale you are losing about 19% of that bale and considering the densest part of the bale is not the center, you could be safe to assume 20%. On a 5x6 bale its around 16 to 17%. Add to that a little more for the bottom frozen to the ground and you could easily justify some kind of shelter. Hay tarps will more than pay for themselves in one season, and if you figured in your labor wrestling them around you could probably justify a permanent structure. But who figures their labor? [/QUOTE]
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