Over your farming career.

[skyhightree1]

How many bales of hay do you think you have baled over your farming carreer? Silage?
I would say estimated:
60k square bales
10k round bales
Silage 200 tons

 

[Bigfoot]

Ive fed in excess of 20,000 rolls. i didn't roll the majority.

 

[bigbull338]

prolly well over 20,000 rolls of hay or more.

 

[jltrent]

Got our first baler in 1977 and for the past 37 years I would say around 35000 bales including some custom baling for neighbors and most of it 5x5.

 

[Alan]

Over the last 14 years I would guess I baled, small squares only, ah....... Zero bales. I'm a hobby guy, I buy my hay. But since I sold most the herd last summer my hay bill is way down, just started haying cattle about a week ago. I have plenty of pasture so I am prepping my biggest pasture to hay next July, but I'll hire a someone and their equipment to bale it for me hopfully at about half the cost of buying it.

 

[TexasBred]

I guestimate I've fed over 40,000 round bales. All were purchased.

 

[Jogeephus]

Better than seven I would think.

 

[M5farm]

more than 1 and less than a million.

 

[TexasBred]

more than 1 and less than a million.

1000 lb. or 800 lb. bales?? (yeah I know when they sell them they're all 1500 lbs. ). :lol2:

 

[greybeard]

I'll have the do some figurin, cipherin, and guzintos.....wait...., is this one of those "you're just a wannabe hobby farmer unless you've bailed X amount of your own hay" questions?

 

[highgrit]

Greybeard, it depends on location if your going to use hay as a judge. I know folks with 2-3 thousand moma cows and they feed no hay, been doing it that way for better than a 100 years.

 

[skyhightree1]

I'll have the do some figurin, cipherin, and guzintos.....wait...., is this one of those "you're just a wannabe hobby farmer unless you've bailed X amount of your own hay" questions?

I am not one to judge like that I just thought it would be neat to see peoples estimates of what work they have accomplished over a farming career. I forgot its a sensitive crowd when asking stuff like that.

 

[M5farm]

I'll have the do some figurin, cipherin, and guzintos.....wait...., is this one of those "you're just a wannabe hobby farmer unless you've bailed X amount of your own hay" questions?

I am not one to judge like that I just thought it would be neat to see peoples estimates of what work they have accomplished over a farming career. I forgot its a sensitive crowd when asking stuff like that.

im sure there are a few that know exactly but most do the work required and don't keep a tally sheet so they can brag about what they have accomplished

 

[Nesikep]

we put up 3-4000 80lb squares a year.. been doing it for 25 years, so we're closing in on 100,000 soon.. The old NH285 baler I'm estimating has about 750,000-1,000,000 bales through it, the ceramic twine eyelets were badly worn!
In tonnage I guess we'd be around 7,000,000 lbs or 4000 metric tons...
Whatever the number is, we've handled each one of those bales at least once and probably 3 or 4 times... and it's a lot of weight

 

[herofan]

I don't personally operate the roller, but since we have been back in the farming business, our farm has produced exactly 247 rolls, and I have fed exactly 183.

Oh, and we have purchased 68 small, square bales. Whew, boy, am I tired!

 

[Rangenerd]

I am pushing 850,000 of the 3 twine square bales.

 

[Kingfisher]

I am pushing 850,000 of the 3 twine square bales.

I suppose you know some about balers?

 

[polledbull]

I have one older baler that is showing over 25,000 rolls and a newer baler showing 5000 rolls , I sell about 1000 rolls of horse hay per year, and feed 150 head of brood cows we own , and custom bale as well.

 

[Angus Cowman]

More than 30000 round bales in the last 8 yrs dont have clue as to how many before that and small squares I would say over 50000 that I have baled personally but haven't done hardly any squares in the last 20 yrs
I know we wore out more than a few square balers when I was younger
We usually baled 50,000 squares a yr when I was a kid

 

[Stocker Steve]

I know we wore out more than a few square balers when I was younger

What wears out on a square baler ?