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A freshly baled round bale, when spit out without twine, really opens up & turns into a somewhat loose pile much of the time. So, your plan is to round bale ahead of a rain, then 2-3 days later unroll the bale & rebale it with a square baler. But, when rain hits that unwrapped round bale, it will soak in & really wet down your hay. It would take more to dry it out than if you had just left the windrow and turn & square bale it later. Round bales shed moisture _if_ they are tightly rolled & wrapped with a lot of twine, or better yet with net. If you leave it sit without twine, my feeling is it will be more like a sponge. Anyhow, that is how it would work here in the midwest. Your climate & rain issues might be totally different. I'm just concerned that you will be making 2wce as much work and end up with the same end quality? Here if it rains, the field is wet for a while, make it moddy to unroll & rebale, hurting the next cutting - etc. There will be losses from both balers, unrolling losses, leaf loss yes even on grass hay, and so on. Some people round bale because it goes so much faster; store the bales indoors; and then rebale them into squares as time allows. It has a lot of work, but does work & make good hay in as short a time as possible. Without twine, stored outside through a rain, and then rebale in the field.... Just would not work _here_ at all. Maybe totally different where you are. --->Paul
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