My daughter and her husband were there showing the auto feeders. He has a welding manufacturing business and built them for a guy and was showing them there. i'd say they are probably for the rancher who has money to burn, but they are pretty neat.
We jostled around getting a small baler for the pines, but now that they are thinned, we'd just use a full sized baler in there. We'd just bale it up, then rebale into square bales off an unrolled round bale. Or just sell it in big round bales. I want one for my garden. Maybe one day while baling hay, I can get the guys go bale up one for me. I just need to go in one of the rows and clean up the limbs and stuff.....