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farmerwannabe

06-25-2007 08:23:06




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Just wondering if, for a very small acreage, a square baler could be used stationary with the hay being loaded manually? Is this harder on the tractor?




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Oldmax

06-26-2007 18:56:44




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 Re: stationary baling in reply to farmerwannabe, 06-25-2007 08:23:06  
A few of us still remember when hay was baled with staionary baler that was driven by a team of horses just barley but can remember seeing this happen one time at my Great uncles .



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Dave Sherburne NY

06-25-2007 10:42:22




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 Re: stationary baling in reply to farmerwannabe, 06-25-2007 08:23:06  
Feeding it by hand will probrobly make some pretty
sloppy bales They like an even feed. Why can't you tow it behind the tractor and bale with it?



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farmerwannabe

06-25-2007 11:05:46




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 Re: stationary baling in reply to Dave Sherburne NY, 06-25-2007 10:42:22  
Well, honestly I"m just getting into hobby farming and am trying to collect equipment as I can afford them on a nurse"s salary while finishing up a master"s degree. We have about 9 acres with 2 or so being hay and the rest being lawn/donkey pasture. I"m purchasing 35 acres down the road to farm in a couple years. To make a long story longer, I can"t afford a bigger tractor right now, and the only one I have is an Allis B (love that little tractor, by the way) I use for everything, thanks to the 3 pt. and hydraulics it has. I ran across this baler and was hoping there was some way I could use it until I was able to get a bigger tractor, like a Massey-Harris 101 or something similar.

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evilboweviel

06-25-2007 15:24:16




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 Re: stationary baling in reply to farmerwannabe, 06-25-2007 11:05:46  
if that B will power the baler than it will pull it around in 1st gear. UNLESS you are working on a hill side where the weight will get away from you. just bale on the ground and then come back and pick it up
Ron



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LarryW

06-25-2007 08:45:50




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 Re: stationary baling in reply to farmerwannabe, 06-25-2007 08:23:06  
Using a stationary baler may not be the best solution. When my pickup cylinder broke on my baler I decided to use a pickfork and throw the windrows into the baler. It took me several hours to do a couple acres and it wasn't easy. Perhaps if you had the hay in piles it wouldn't be so bad, but in windrows it required a lot of walking and a lot of relocating the baler as you went down the windrow.

If you want a feel for what can wear out on a baler just do a search in this site on the word "baler". I did it for "46 baler" and got plenty of reading.

I think the most discussion is on problems with the knot tieing system on a lot of the balers. But there's also plenty of other things that can go wrong. I get the feel that the more experienced you are with the baler the less hassles you have with it too, as you'll know it's little quirks.

I'm trying to get my baler fixed up and working partly as a hobby to get hay to feed horses. We normally have a local guy do the cutting and baling and we get 40% of the bales. That's probably cheaper if you look at all the costs and frustration.

When and if I get everything solved on my baler I figure that no more hay than what I have, it shouldn't take much in maintenance after that.

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farmerwannabe

06-25-2007 10:14:46




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 Re: stationary baling in reply to LarryW, 06-25-2007 08:45:50  
Thanks for the reply and info. I agree it"d probably be cheaper to have someone else bale and give them some, but around here most people are round baling or baling the BIG square bales, and they don"t seem too interested in doing the small amount we have here in square bales. I don"t have any way to handle or store the big bales, and the 4 mini donkeys I have combined probably don"t weight much more than one round bale. :)

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Matt from CT

06-25-2007 19:10:51




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 Re: stationary baling in reply to farmerwannabe, 06-25-2007 10:14:46  
If you're already considering the labor to manually feed the baler reasonable, do you have space to just put up the hay lose?

If no room in the barn, and it'd be hard to find someone who could show you in person how to make an old fashion hay stack, maybe some pallets on a well-drained spot & heavy tarp would be a reasonable investment in an experiment? Wouldn't think it's worth the cost of one of those nice dome-top car garages, but what's the worse, you end up buying hay anyway?

Maybe the guys with more experience will say I'm out in left field though...

Still get to use the B to cut, ted, and rake the hay :D

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