It is so easy for people to spend your money telling you that you need something you do not need. You have a small amount of cattle or you would not be saying about couting every couple of days to supplement pasture. So figure that if that chopper saves you from having to buy just one 120 small bale load of hay it has paid for itself. The machines they are telling you that you need if they could be found (perhaps in their area they can be but not in your area) will cost way more and you may or may not need it after a week if the rains start and pasture recovers where is the cost advantage of buying a high priced machine to have seeting around. Not faniluar with a 718 but the 717? believe it was that belonged to my uncle took all the power that his 3020 put out to run it, used it a couple of times while we were between choppers. We got a cheap flywheel type throw NH chopper and the JD B handled it as easy as the 3020 did the other model and those models they say you should be getting would possible require at least a 4020 to handle. From what you are saying you want to do I dought that you have that big a tractor. We orignally bought an old Cockshutt with pickup head and one row corn head, chopped on flat bed hay wagon for a week with hay head and put on the corn head for a wek and by that time rain had come and pasture was back to normal. Next year built a feeder wagon bed and picked up a first model JD flail chopper and went to chopping every day, That JD B handled it as well as a bigger tractor would have. That cut our need for pasture in half. When that old Cockshutt gave out got the Old New Holland.We never had a silo or fed silage. All the machines they are saying to get are bigg enough you would need to put up a lot of silage to make them pay and you are not doing silage or you wouls already have the forage harvestor. So if that $700 machine saves you from having to buy 3 ton of hay it has paid for itself and any future use is free Not those others if you could find them would coust you not $700 but $7,000 till you found it and got it shipped to you how many loads of hay would you have to buy to have paid the difference in cost, pluss possibly having to buy a different larger tractor just to run it. Adding everything together does ther reasinging make econicim sence to you? If it does then follow it but if you do math like I do then go with the machine you are looking at. And then next year consider getting a flail to suppliment it and use the time to find the correct machine. We only had a high of 23 cows and quit milking when the dairy closed.
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