In the hay business

grandpa Love · Oct 27, 2019

Yay! I sold my first bales! Lady on Facebook needed 5 square bales for a fall display. Let's see ,at $5.00 a bale .... gonna take a while to break even!

SVcummins · Oct 27, 2019

Charge ten for the decorators and 6 to that people who are feeding them

David G · Oct 27, 2019

Looks like you are leaving a lot on the ground.

old · Oct 27, 2019

Almost looks like you have a flat or very low tire on the right rear of the tractor. plus looks like you maybe do not have the pick up down as low as it should be. My NH271 has an adjustment on the pick wheel and you want those tines to be hitting the ground so you pick up all the hay

37chief · Oct 27, 2019

Your're not to believe this. I opened a bale of hay, and there was a chicken inside. How did that happen? Stan

formerly ny bill · Oct 27, 2019

amen!

old-9 · Oct 27, 2019

37, This has been around from 2016, still good though.
badger

showcrop · Oct 27, 2019

Your profits should increase substantially once you are cutting the hay in the field that you have lined up instead of buying round bales and unrolling and re-baling them, LOL.

grandpa Love · Oct 27, 2019

Showcrop , I bet you are right!

SVcummins · Oct 27, 2019

You?ll never get all the hay when your picking up hay that?s already been baled no matter how low you run the pickup .

ArleninOr · Oct 27, 2019

Read your book and it will tell you to have the tine about two [2] inches above the stubble to allow the pickup to create a turbulence to atd in picking the hay up. Hitting the ground breaks the tines.

old · Oct 27, 2019

Well then for the past 39 years I have had them set to low but have yet to have tines break. On all the balers I have had they do not dig into the ground but they are also down to say 1/2 inch above the ground. As for books only baler manuals I have are for the NH850 round baler and the JD 14T

centash · Oct 28, 2019

.....and stones. Half inch above the ground.

Ben

Adirondack case guy · Oct 28, 2019

He wore out the hay. Unrolled rounds into windrow, ran that thru baler, and it didn't tie, and he spread out everything that didn't tie from square baler and bales it again. It is pretty hard to pick up toothpicks with a baler.-----------Loren

BarnyardEngineering · Oct 28, 2019

(quoted from post at 15:05:40 10/27/19) Charge ten for the decorators and 6 to that people who are feeding them

I got 700+ bales of real nice alfalfa mix to sell. Anyone willing to pay $6 a bale, send them to me. I've had it for sale for two months at $4 a bale, and ZERO interest.

You wouldn't get $6 a bale here if the bales all had gold bricks in the center. It would be a good way to kill any market you might have.

SVcummins · Oct 28, 2019

They are 7 to 10$ a bale here and I sell straw for 3$

ArleninOr · Oct 28, 2019

SV, I get 10 for singles of straw, same as grass hay. $7 if more than 34 bales.

Bill VA · Oct 28, 2019

Send me a PM to discuss off line - email is open.

Bill

K Effective · Oct 28, 2019

I got 700+ bales of real nice alfalfa mix to sell. Anyone willing to pay $6 a bale, send them to me. I've had it for sale for two months at $4 a bale, and ZERO interest.

You wouldn't get $6 a bale here if the bales all had gold bricks in the center. It would be a good way to kill any market you might have.

I'm surprised to hear that, here in SWMI, I've been approached about hay for sale by everyone who has ever bought from me in the past and then some. Speaking to a coworker at turnover time this morning, he said the horse hay market around Kalamazoo had good first cutting at $7 and quality second cutting horse hay at $12 per small square...location location location, I guess.

showcrop · Oct 28, 2019

I get $6.00/ bale picked up in the field, $7.00 for second cut. off the wagon is $.50 more and delivered is an extra $.50- $1.00 depending on the situation. I don't make straw but I have seen prices and it is way more.

RobCons · Oct 28, 2019

This business model reminds me of a story. A friend was boarding a horse for a young girl. The girl got behind on payments so Stephanie decided to hold the horse for payment. I pointed out the horse was doing everything it could to eat her out of house and home. She got quite then said "I hadnt thought of it like that". Turned out good. Girls parents stepped up.

SVcummins · Oct 29, 2019

That?s a good price I normally don?t charge to much more for just a few bales normally it?s just friends that need them

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