Hay Making Equipment: What Size Tractor?

[searcyfarms]

oh i wasn't referring to the generalities i was referring to the SPECIAL aspects and how sometimes we can get so caught up on technicalities and lose sight of the practicality and reason of things - going from giant piles of pitched hay to $100K balers now there something to debate

 

[atsah]

LOL.. We went from a JD 14T to a round baler.. Hope we didn’t scare the OP away from making hay..

 

[Rm9610]

You can spend a little or as much as you want. Don稚 mean to be rude but if your goin bale hay and don稚 have a clue what痴 goin on HIRE it done...... your goin feed your horses and if you don稚 put it up right it値l mold and being in sq bale can catch on fire. In my are in not tx for simple math 20 ac at 50 bales custom at a $1.5= $1500 a cutting and 50 bales a ac is avg for costal. That痴 with fertilizer each cutting don稚 know what kind of grass you have? So back to the economics of it you get 3 cuttings that痴 only $4500 a yr. for wore out I mean wore smooth out junk your goin spend 10-15k just on equipment. Then you have fuel wire and other operationing cost not to mention the break downs on the wore out eq.