Hey SVcummins

grandpa Love

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Yesterday you posted a picture of a baler. We ain't got nothing like that around here. I'm guessing it's big square bales? How heavy are they? How do you move em? Most folks here do round bales ,with a few doing small squares for horse people or feed store sales. I enjoy seeing pictures from other parts of the country. It's neat to see different ways of doing things. If you have time post a couple more pictures of the hay operation. Thanks Kevin in Central AL. What state are you in?
 
Those big bales are common in the west. A good way to put up,move/transport,and feed a lot of hay.4x4(1 ton),3x4(1500 lbs),and 3x3(1000 lbs)They are picked up with a loader with spikes(similar to round bale spikes).There are mechanized feeders,or you just set one on the ground and feed with a pitch fork.However,there are still PLENTY of small squares here,and rounds too...
 
Here is link to the "Stinger" manufactured in central Kansas. When my son was working for a large farm(er) he and the boss built two of them only held more bales than the stinger. They also ran two of the large Hesston 4x4x8 balers. That was the way his boss was; always a little bigger.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nv6Ei2Zxf4M
 
We try to squeeze 1900 pounds In em in hay and about 1400 in straw . A regular loader handles em fine that?s how we move and stack em . We double rake two 14 foot windrows together and if the field is smooth we can run between 4 and 7 mph I?ve baled a lot of windrows that rub the bottom of the weights on these big tractors . I live in Idaho . Picture is my 4020 hauling 2 bales that scales 1850 each
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Thanks for the answer and pictures. The friend I helped bale hay last week is married to a woman from Idaho.
 
There are some 3x3x5 bales made here , but the ones that are far more common are 2x2x8 and they are used for hay wet or dry and straw. The big balers take big hp, minimum150 hp tractor to drive baler. And you can easy enough make a round bale with equal amount of hay in them with half the tractor power. And large square balers cost twice or more than round balers do.
 
(quoted from post at 15:56:04 07/11/18) We do big bales for selling and round bales for feeding and little bales for feeding horses

I see the advantage of them for selling, two bales high stacked across a semi's flat bed makes them easy to load fast and get more weight on than in round bales.
I've seen several loads of those big square bales heading to the horse farms around Lexington, Ky. The horses are feed in measured rations, straw is forked into the stables by hand, they cut the twine on those big squares and fork it into a wheel borrow to use where needed.
Some of the big farms have a compactor that makes the same size bales to rebale the used straw and horse manure to haul it away.

Always hated going to those big horse farms, they were quick to b---h you out if your trailer tracked off into the grass on their narrow dives.
 

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