Can't outrun nothing in the end. Make hay while the sun shines is what I say. I won't be making it out of this world alive is all I know. I probably don't live the way the "experts" say to but I'm happy and I'm carved out of marble so they can stuff it. Statistically I will not see 80, so I ain't worried about it.
What size rolls are common for your area? Around here almost exclusively farmers do 5x5 or 5x6. We lost the one guy who would roll me 4 x6 so I'm in search of someone else as my feeders are geared to 4'
Mostly 4x5 or 4x4. 50 to 80 horse tractors are what most people have, including ourselves, and can't handle 1500 pound bales on these hills.
That's awesome. What do you bale with?
Unusual no doubt!
You bring up a very good point. Many people that know they are going to sell the hay cuts the rolls back to 4x4.5 or less. Measure some the moment it comes out of the roller. My Vermeer has a way to calibrate the size its showing to the actual size.That's awesome. What do you bale with?
I'd like to weigh a few mine and see. I try to fill em as much as possible. I notice my 4x5's are about 6 inches taller than what I buy from three different hay guys.
What I buy aren't as heavy as what I bale, that's for sure. I flick the loader's tilt back and forth a time or two to weigh them.
Just can't find those around here, but I'm still looking. I've got a 50 horse and these 13-1500 bales make it groan the it does handle them. Like I mentioned my old feeders hold a 4'bale perfect. When weather is cooperating I try to roll bales to help build soil, I I unroll a 5x5 they end up laying and trampling a lot of it doing a bale part day. 4' they usually clean up pretty well
If it's more than they'll clean up in a day I sit them out, whole, without a ring. They do a pretty good job of cleaning it up if it's good hay. If ya move locations each feeding it really builds soil. Just takes some time for the residue to break down.
That's awesome. What do you bale with?
I'd like to weigh a few mine and see. I try to fill em as much as possible. I notice my 4x5's are about 6 inches taller than what I buy from three different hay guys.
What I buy aren't as heavy as what I bale, that's for sure. I flick the loader's tilt back and forth a time or two to weigh them.
That looks great, I'll try that this winter. I did do something an old rancher stopped and told me about. When we got the place he stopped by when I was working some fence just to talk. I have about an acre of not very good soil that raised a bumper crop of those big cactus. He said it had been bothering him to see it for years but the previous owner never did anything with it. He told me to do all my winter hay up there, and to set the round bales directly on top of the cactus and it will kill it. Two winters later that area is cactus free and covered with crabgrass that I bought from Mr dalrymple (spelling?).
I assume most people are out to get me. Lol.
