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I may not have all them letters behind my name and can figure the way he does but from a hands on experience I can again recommend unrolling hay , It will save you money and only take a few days to figure out the right amount to unroll.
 
M-5":2iecack1 said:
I may not have all them letters behind my name and can figure the way he does but from a hands on experience I can again recommend unrolling hay , It will save you money and only take a few days to figure out the right amount to unroll.
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I have always guestimated that I have $80 a ton in my own hay. That makes it a little over a dollar a day to feed a cow, when the grass plays out. In other words, it cost about $1000 a week to feed hay. A pretty pricey venture. Id prefer to put it off as long as I can, and stop as early as i can.
 
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No way is feeding hay anywhere close to cheap, but it's neccessary even this far south.
Dash, do you still use that wheel thing on the front of your tractor to unroll bales?
 
greybeard":2if80f2n said:
No way is feeding hay anywhere close to cheap, but it's neccessary even this far south.
Dash, do you still use that wheel thing on the front of your tractor to unroll bales?
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It is setting beside the fuel tank waiting to be bolted back on the FEL when I start feeding. I experimented with several ways to unroll last year and by far the best is to unroll 15 ft pick up move over 30 ft and unroll 15 ft and so for and so on . It is impossible to do this with the cows in the field with you our you run the chance of stabbing one of them. when I feed hay I also give them 10 gal of cube feed so I feed cubes in the lot shut the gate go and unroll hay then turn them out . it is time consuming to do this and when its dark at 4:30pm in the winter ya need good lights
 
M-5":bj7rqfbc said:
greybeard":bj7rqfbc said:
No way is feeding hay anywhere close to cheap, but it's neccessary even this far south.
Dash, do you still use that wheel thing on the front of your tractor to unroll bales?
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It is setting beside the fuel tank waiting to be bolted back on the FEL when I start feeding. I experimented with several ways to unroll last year and by far the best is to unroll 15 ft pick up move over 30 ft and unroll 15 ft and so for and so on . It is impossible to do this with the cows in the field with you our you run the chance of stabbing one of them. when I feed hay I also give them 10 gal of cube feed so I feed cubes in the lot shut the gate go and unroll hay then turn them out . it is time consuming to do this and when its dark at 4:30pm in the winter ya need good lights
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Thanks--yeah, I sure understand the part about them being in the field. I have a hard enough time just getting thru a gate with a bale and them not coming thru before I can drive thru and close the gate behind me. I need to find your thread on that roller......
 
It's just a boat trailer tire mounted to an axle that I bolt to side of fel. I'm thinking about mounting 2 wheels to my A-frame hitch on rear so I can drop it with fel then roll it backwards without fear of impaling an animal
 
I've been messing around with some scraps since dash showed his. I m gonna build on that uses the front axle adjustment holes on a 4020 to mount to. I think about 30 inches wide with 4 smaller rollers.

Also gonna build one that fits in the Hitch reciever on a ranch hand front bumper
 
Stocker Steve":3jawzdj5 said:
Bigfoot":3jawzdj5 said:
I have always guestimated that I have $80 a ton in my own hay. That makes it a little over a dollar a day to feed a cow, when the grass plays out.
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Have you put a number on what grass costs you?
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Naw, but it ain't cheap.
 
I will take a stab at improved pasture:
Our business types charge a rental rate (which means the land company has an operating loss) plus direct expenses.
If you spend $40 on rent, $30 on fertilizer, $5 on spot spray, $25 to clip -- you total up to $100/a
If there are 4 tons of forage at 50% utilization then grass costs 100/2= $50/T
So not much cheaper than current cow hay price but much better quality.
 

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