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<blockquote data-quote="cowtrek" data-source="post: 252236" data-attributes="member: 2847"><p>I think it'd be too much weight for a stackhand. Gotta remember even wrapped silage round bales rolled at less than like 40% moisture still weigh half again to nearly double what an equivalent size round bale of dry hay weighs. It MIGHT work if you had a stackhand and wanted to give it a try but I'd make the loads small. </p><p></p><p>Neatest outfit I've seen lately for making cheap feed was in a recent issue of FARM SHOW magazine. Some guy down in Fla. I believe uses an old JD flail silage chopper to pick up his hay instead of baling it. He cuts and rakes the hay regularly like for round baling, lets it dry down to proper baling moisture, but then instead of baling it he chops it with the flail cutter and blows it into modified trailers built on old trailerhouse frames. He has several of these trailers which are a wood or steel mesh floor on the trailerhouse frame, stud walls coming up from that with tin on the outside, and a cheap tin roof on top. The back end is covered with tin and the front end is too except for a fold down panel for the blower chute to blow the hay into the trailer. The bottom 2-3 foot on the sides is hinged the length of the trailer for feedout. The hay is covered from the minute it's picked up until it's fed out and the trailer doubles as a feeder. He just raises a section of the side at a time and the cattle eat out as needed. Kinda neat idea. Says it's a lot cheaper than baling and wrapping or twining and moving and building a barn or suffering storage losses and all that. Costs a little to build the trailers but he says that not having to buy and maintain a high dollar baler but getting by with a cheap auction chopper makes all the difference. 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: 252236, member: 2847"] I think it'd be too much weight for a stackhand. Gotta remember even wrapped silage round bales rolled at less than like 40% moisture still weigh half again to nearly double what an equivalent size round bale of dry hay weighs. It MIGHT work if you had a stackhand and wanted to give it a try but I'd make the loads small. Neatest outfit I've seen lately for making cheap feed was in a recent issue of FARM SHOW magazine. Some guy down in Fla. I believe uses an old JD flail silage chopper to pick up his hay instead of baling it. He cuts and rakes the hay regularly like for round baling, lets it dry down to proper baling moisture, but then instead of baling it he chops it with the flail cutter and blows it into modified trailers built on old trailerhouse frames. He has several of these trailers which are a wood or steel mesh floor on the trailerhouse frame, stud walls coming up from that with tin on the outside, and a cheap tin roof on top. The back end is covered with tin and the front end is too except for a fold down panel for the blower chute to blow the hay into the trailer. The bottom 2-3 foot on the sides is hinged the length of the trailer for feedout. The hay is covered from the minute it's picked up until it's fed out and the trailer doubles as a feeder. He just raises a section of the side at a time and the cattle eat out as needed. Kinda neat idea. Says it's a lot cheaper than baling and wrapping or twining and moving and building a barn or suffering storage losses and all that. Costs a little to build the trailers but he says that not having to buy and maintain a high dollar baler but getting by with a cheap auction chopper makes all the difference. OL JR :) [/QUOTE]
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