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Justifying a second tractor......
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<blockquote data-quote="Cdeyton" data-source="post: 1313938" data-attributes="member: 24927"><p>My dad and I run three tractors doing dry hay and three tractors and a skid steer doing haylage. We have two tractors that are newer (early 2000's) that are 4wd with loaders and one that is older (1973) that is 2wd and no loader. Doing dry hay we ted and rake with the 2wd, roll and load trailer with the bigger 4wd and unload back at our farms with the smaller 4wd. Doing haylage we rake and load hay on the trailer with the smaller 4wd, bale and load hay in the trailer with the bigger 4wd and then once the wet hay is hauled to the pasture it is going to be wrapped, the 2wd tractor is sitting there hooked to the wrapper and we unload the trailers and load the wrapper with the skid steer. Again, this is with two people, so it makes it much more efficient. When I do fields by myself, I usually pull rake, bale and load with the bigger 4wd then unload at the farm with the smaller 4wd. We do about 150 acres of hay and only 5 acres of it is at my dads farm, none at mine. Not a lot of flat land where we are, so bale trailers don't work well as there is not many safe places to dump them that they won't go rolling down a mountain. It saves so much time having two loader tractors that there is no way I could go to one. It is also nice to have another tractor that you can hook to a baler if something goes wrong to your other one and you have hay on the ground.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Cdeyton, post: 1313938, member: 24927"] My dad and I run three tractors doing dry hay and three tractors and a skid steer doing haylage. We have two tractors that are newer (early 2000's) that are 4wd with loaders and one that is older (1973) that is 2wd and no loader. Doing dry hay we ted and rake with the 2wd, roll and load trailer with the bigger 4wd and unload back at our farms with the smaller 4wd. Doing haylage we rake and load hay on the trailer with the smaller 4wd, bale and load hay in the trailer with the bigger 4wd and then once the wet hay is hauled to the pasture it is going to be wrapped, the 2wd tractor is sitting there hooked to the wrapper and we unload the trailers and load the wrapper with the skid steer. Again, this is with two people, so it makes it much more efficient. When I do fields by myself, I usually pull rake, bale and load with the bigger 4wd then unload at the farm with the smaller 4wd. We do about 150 acres of hay and only 5 acres of it is at my dads farm, none at mine. Not a lot of flat land where we are, so bale trailers don't work well as there is not many safe places to dump them that they won't go rolling down a mountain. It saves so much time having two loader tractors that there is no way I could go to one. It is also nice to have another tractor that you can hook to a baler if something goes wrong to your other one and you have hay on the ground. [/QUOTE]
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