Bale Bandit

[5030]

Mike:

I think I have said this at least one hundred times......... IF MAKING HAY WAS EASY, EVERYONE WOULD DO IT. IT ISN'T!!!!!!

 

[MikePA]

<font color="blue"> IF MAKING HAY WAS EASY, EVERYONE WOULD DO IT. </font>
Sometimes (all the time?), buying it is hard work, too! /forums/images/graemlins/tongue.gif /forums/images/graemlins/smile.gif

 

[DAP]

I think long before George Dubya starts in on ya, some of our mexican TBN member's might have sumpin to say though. /forums/images/graemlins/shocked.gif

 

[dancce]

Hey Woodbeef,
Where did you get info. on Krone coming out with a small square baler that packages. I can't find anything on their USA website.
I'd sure like to have one available here.

dancce

 

[Old_Hickory]

I would rather buy it out of the barn then have to be the one worrying about cutting it,raking it bailing it and putting it in the barn and not getting it wet and have equipment break downs and worrying about if the help was going to show up or not.

 

[5030]

Dap:

Migrant workers are probably making out better than the average American Worker (non-seasonal). You have to provide housing, a good wage, health care, etc. Very costly. That's why hand picked crops like asparagus are so expensive.

 

[Woodbeef]

Hey Dan,

It's brand new,a friend from NZ told me about them. They just had the first showing back at Agritechnica. They call it the Big Pack 1270 Multi-Bale. I found it on the main Krone site from Germany,and ordered some brochures for it. The website is a little cryptic for info,but maybe you can decipher it better than I could. A PDF brochure download is also there,but I'm on very slow dial-up!! www.krone.de/en/ldm/pi/index.html

The width looks adjustable,but the length looks longer than normal over here for small squares.

 

[DAP]

Daryl, I cant disagree with that. However, limiting the makeup of the migrant working population to the Mexican race would be disconcerting to certain individuals methinks.

Only a short 65 years ago, the "migrant workers" were US citizens, mostly caucasians.

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[dancce]

Hey Woodbeef,
Very interesting--they are obviously not offering this here in the US yet--as my Krone rep. has not mentioned it.
I could not get the PDF file to come up either.
This looks like an add-on to the BigPack large square baler, which by nature is pretty expensive. It's a heck of a good concept, though. If I was still doing custom baling on the scale of a few years ago (before I lost my head and got into selling iron), I would be taking a hard look at it. I'm sure it will be available in the US before long.

dancce

 

[ScottAR]

I got it to work... Very interesting!! Would be the best of both worlds I think.

** disclaimer ** I know nothing about hay equipment. /forums/images/graemlins/crazy.gif

 

[dancce]

Scott,
My thoughts exactly---the best of both worlds.
I still can't get the PDF file on the Multibale Big Pack--can get all others--but not on MultiBale.

I guess I should qualify my statement about big square balers being expensive---it's all relative--if you have large volumes of hay to produce, initial price is not the principal factor.It all boils down to cost per bale (or ton) produced over a period of time.
The cheapest equipment, is not necessarily the least expensive. This is especially true ,when calculating costs in large operations.
I have told many prospective customers that are considering getting into the hay baling business, that the least expensive piece of machinery used in baling hay is a tractor.I have received many expressions that indicated that they thought I was crazy. But when you figure the costs per bale (or ton),allocated to each piece of equipment used, the tractors come out the lowest,simply because a properly maintained tractor will outlast (and be worth more when sold or traded )than the other equipment.

dancce

 

[ScottAR]

Makes sense. Just as you said, it has more resale value. Besides, it gets used for every step of the process assuming only one tractor. I dunno any hay farmer that only has one tractor but the principal is the same.