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<blockquote data-quote="cowtrek" data-source="post: 251088" data-attributes="member: 2847"><p>I get $15/bale to cut, rake, and bale. I'll move them to one end of the field as a courtesy/thank you. That's for 5 foot wide twine tied bales 5-6 foot diameter. I don't discriminate against a guy who's got small irregular fields or thinner hay, though compounding the two makes me think twice. I've got one customer right now who's kinda antsy because I haven't cut for him yet, but it's a couple 2 acre patches 4 miles apart (luckily I'm in the middle of them) and when it was SO dry here they just weren't worth messing with. Been lucky to get 3-4 bales off them altogether. Now with the rain they're getting up in size and when the ground dries out I'll go get it for him. </p><p></p><p> I cut on shares too and get 50% of the hay. I could really use the hay more than the money this year. Had one guy that ONLY wanted to do shares and that was OK, pretty good bahia and dallis, but usually had a little more hay than I wanted at the end of the season. He's retired so I've only been doing cash jobs last few years. My experience has been that you're better off to do it yourself if you can. When we could hire milo hauling for 25 cents a hundred and were getting $5/cwt. for milo, you did just as well or better hiring the hauling. Last couple years I row cropped, hauling was 50 cents/cwt and milo was $3.50/cwt if you could get it, it's haul it yourself or go broke. That 50 cents/cwt is your profit. I shudder to think what hiring the combining would do to you. Same thing applies to just about everything. Now, that said, no it doesn't make sense to own your hay machinery for a 2 acre hay patch or baling for 5 head of cows or something. But the college studies that say you shouldn't own hay equipment for less than 100 acres or 200 head of cattle is grossly overestimated IMHO. Most college figures are overestimated from what I've seen. I guess if you go finance or lease all brand new equipment for a hay operation, maybe those numbers are right, but if you do like most folks and go used, fixer uppers, and do your own work, it is usually cheaper and more timely. Just depends on what you're doing and trying to do and what kind of custom guys you have around I guess. Good luck! OL JR <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite1" alt=":)" title="Smile :)" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":)" /></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="cowtrek, post: 251088, member: 2847"] I get $15/bale to cut, rake, and bale. I'll move them to one end of the field as a courtesy/thank you. That's for 5 foot wide twine tied bales 5-6 foot diameter. I don't discriminate against a guy who's got small irregular fields or thinner hay, though compounding the two makes me think twice. I've got one customer right now who's kinda antsy because I haven't cut for him yet, but it's a couple 2 acre patches 4 miles apart (luckily I'm in the middle of them) and when it was SO dry here they just weren't worth messing with. Been lucky to get 3-4 bales off them altogether. Now with the rain they're getting up in size and when the ground dries out I'll go get it for him. I cut on shares too and get 50% of the hay. I could really use the hay more than the money this year. Had one guy that ONLY wanted to do shares and that was OK, pretty good bahia and dallis, but usually had a little more hay than I wanted at the end of the season. He's retired so I've only been doing cash jobs last few years. My experience has been that you're better off to do it yourself if you can. When we could hire milo hauling for 25 cents a hundred and were getting $5/cwt. for milo, you did just as well or better hiring the hauling. Last couple years I row cropped, hauling was 50 cents/cwt and milo was $3.50/cwt if you could get it, it's haul it yourself or go broke. That 50 cents/cwt is your profit. I shudder to think what hiring the combining would do to you. Same thing applies to just about everything. Now, that said, no it doesn't make sense to own your hay machinery for a 2 acre hay patch or baling for 5 head of cows or something. But the college studies that say you shouldn't own hay equipment for less than 100 acres or 200 head of cattle is grossly overestimated IMHO. Most college figures are overestimated from what I've seen. I guess if you go finance or lease all brand new equipment for a hay operation, maybe those numbers are right, but if you do like most folks and go used, fixer uppers, and do your own work, it is usually cheaper and more timely. Just depends on what you're doing and trying to do and what kind of custom guys you have around I guess. Good luck! OL JR :) [/QUOTE]
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