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<blockquote data-quote="farmerjan" data-source="post: 1604430" data-attributes="member: 25884"><p>I hear you on the farmer not being willing to teach.... some just are that way. If you are getting those prices for your hay when you sell it, then you are not paying too much to have it made. And yeah, the kids mostly do love to be "help" when they get to drive the tractors. Mine learned to drive the standard shift pick up in the fields going around to get the hay. I think that maybe you ought to consider the possibility of making your own, and try to find a "new used" baler that hopefully won't give you alot of trouble..... the kids are getting to the age where they can be more and more help and they will learn about hard decent work. I cannot advise as to all the equipment. That is my son's "department". Maybe take a year or 2 and acquire the stuff, and maybe you can find some one else that you can learn from? But you do not need a huge tractor with 100 hp to run a sq baler. If you drop it on the ground then a tractor doesn't need the power to pull the baler and a wagon behind it. </p><p> A side delivery rake, roller bar rake or whatever you call it out there, will last forever, very little can go wrong, and most places want a higher capacity "wheel rake" that is v-shaped and rakes faster. A tedder will make it quicker to dry hay but not essential for the first few years. We didn't have one for at least 20 years. This year it got used once because we had decent weather to get it made in between weather fronts. Some years we use it all the time.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="farmerjan, post: 1604430, member: 25884"] I hear you on the farmer not being willing to teach.... some just are that way. If you are getting those prices for your hay when you sell it, then you are not paying too much to have it made. And yeah, the kids mostly do love to be "help" when they get to drive the tractors. Mine learned to drive the standard shift pick up in the fields going around to get the hay. I think that maybe you ought to consider the possibility of making your own, and try to find a "new used" baler that hopefully won't give you alot of trouble..... the kids are getting to the age where they can be more and more help and they will learn about hard decent work. I cannot advise as to all the equipment. That is my son's "department". Maybe take a year or 2 and acquire the stuff, and maybe you can find some one else that you can learn from? But you do not need a huge tractor with 100 hp to run a sq baler. If you drop it on the ground then a tractor doesn't need the power to pull the baler and a wagon behind it. A side delivery rake, roller bar rake or whatever you call it out there, will last forever, very little can go wrong, and most places want a higher capacity "wheel rake" that is v-shaped and rakes faster. A tedder will make it quicker to dry hay but not essential for the first few years. We didn't have one for at least 20 years. This year it got used once because we had decent weather to get it made in between weather fronts. Some years we use it all the time. [/QUOTE]
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