hay cuber?

IaLeo · Dec 26, 2015

Anyone ever seen a JD haycuber? Years back, working in JD engineering, I saw a parts breakout on the microfiche of one. Why would anyone cube hay? Makes buffaloes eating/pooping eating grass look brilliant. And "free range too!" IaLeo

Brendon-KS · Dec 26, 2015

There used to be a couple of Deere self-propelled cubers setting at the JD dealership in Holly,
Colorado which is in the SE corner of the state. They sat there for quite some time but I haven't
seen them now for years. Don't know if they got sold or just drug to a back corner of the lot that
isn't visible from the road.

Hayfarmer · Dec 26, 2015

a farm used one here years ago. Reason for cubbing was less storage space for same amount of hay. I believe the cubes may have been exported but not sure. There were others who used stationary cubbers here and in the Columbia basin, mainly for Alfalfa. I was in the Columbia basin area as a JD mechanic setting up a swather. The hay was then chopped and blown into the boxes on gooseneck trailers hooked behind pickup trucks, then taken to the cubber. The field I was in had lots of big pigweeds, you could hear them hammer through the conditioner on the swather. Thought to myself that after they went through the cubber it all looked like nice alfalfa.

Eagle Beagle · Dec 26, 2015

There are two of them in Oklahoma that run every year at Golden Harvest Days near Colbran. They have a great show there on the third Friday & Saturday of June. They have Detroit Diesels in them.

Eagle Beagle · Dec 26, 2015

Here you go,

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zL7Ef9icMpw

GreenEnvy · Dec 26, 2015

I've seen some down between Cody and Powell in Wyoming. Even had a chance to buy one for $15,000 that had been rebuilt. They made over a thousand of them.

kyhayman · Dec 27, 2015

I've actually been in the market for one of them. Its all about value added. In a cube, you
can sell based more on nutritional analysis rather than color or smell, at a premium price.
Look at what TSC sells in the bags, of hay cubes. 40 pounds of hay, in a nice clean paper
bag, for 13 to 20 bucks for what started out as a fairly light small square bale.

Seth_ia · Dec 28, 2015

Will the JD cubers work in humid areas? My limited understanding was that hay had to be super dry and thus only worked in arid areas. Otherwise I would love to have one.

Tech 7 · Dec 28, 2015

There was a John Deere cuber displayed at our Two Cylinder club show here in Ontario this summer. There was some question as to there being any marketed here in Canada, with the thought of MAYBE in the drier parts of the western provinces

GreenEnvy · Dec 28, 2015

I saw one up in Alberta just south of Lethbridge.

Phil in Pa · Dec 29, 2015

I had never heard of them but I bought a recent Heritage Iron for the 1155 Massey info and they did a section on hay cubers.

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