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Need Help/Advise... novice but shopping for haying equipment
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<blockquote data-quote="farmerjan" data-source="post: 1604321" data-attributes="member: 25884"><p>Just to add, not trying to discourage you. We have old equipment, I just raked 4 small irregularly shaped fields with the old Farmall H and a single row side delivery rake. I LIKE to rake hay. You don't need a big tractor or tons of HP to make sq bales, like with a round baler that really makes a tractor work. Just want you to think about the time and the cost of not just the equipment, but the VALUE of the hay getting made well, and put in the barn. Around here a few have gone to an accumulator that stacks and binds the sq bales in "cubes " of like 27 bales or so. We cannot find help to stack hay on wagons, or to get it unloaded off the wagons into the barns. I envy your being young, and physically able to do it; I was there once!!!!! Just want you to try to see it from all sides and where your time and money will be better spent. Maybe, you could work with this farmer and learn from him and you could be in a position to start doing it as a business down the road????</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="farmerjan, post: 1604321, member: 25884"] Just to add, not trying to discourage you. We have old equipment, I just raked 4 small irregularly shaped fields with the old Farmall H and a single row side delivery rake. I LIKE to rake hay. You don't need a big tractor or tons of HP to make sq bales, like with a round baler that really makes a tractor work. Just want you to think about the time and the cost of not just the equipment, but the VALUE of the hay getting made well, and put in the barn. Around here a few have gone to an accumulator that stacks and binds the sq bales in "cubes " of like 27 bales or so. We cannot find help to stack hay on wagons, or to get it unloaded off the wagons into the barns. I envy your being young, and physically able to do it; I was there once!!!!! Just want you to try to see it from all sides and where your time and money will be better spent. Maybe, you could work with this farmer and learn from him and you could be in a position to start doing it as a business down the road???? [/QUOTE]
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