I was putting 16 acres of hay for quite a while before my son started trying to make a go at getting in the hay business. What you were using as a kid still works today - if you can find decent machinery to use. Until 4 years ago I used a single Farmall 350, an International 1000 balanced head mower, a New Holland 56 rake, and an IH 47 wire tie baler. Along with a couple hay wagons and a fairly heavy duty 16' utility trailer. The 16 acres would produce anywhere from 850 to 1200 bales (depended on weather) usually right at 1000 bales.
I would mow it in patches of 300 or so bales - so I could load everything and not leave a bale in the field at night. Want to make it rain - leave 100 square bales standing in a field overnight. It would take a couple days to unload and sell what was on the wagons then do it again. I was extremely short on storage space and literally only had space for 200-250 bales under a roof. A good day was when I would discount a $1 a bale and people picked up their own from the field.
I delivered to one place that had horses and the guy pointed out his new little John Deere 3032 tractor that he used for mowing. I told him he had at least 3X more money wrapped up in that lawn mower than I had in all my equipment that I used for hay - and that included the 1964 F250 that pulled the trailer to his place.
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Today's Featured Article - A 1937 John Deere Unstuck - by Gary Hickman. Here is my story of how I got the pistons out of a 1937 JD B that the engine had been stuck for about 14 years: About 12 years ago my Dad gave me one of the tractors I ran as I was growing up on our farm in central Nebraska. The engine on this tractor, a 1937 John Deere "B", had been stuck for 2 years before he gave it to me. This last spring (1999) I hauled the tractor to our 2 acre lot in St. Libory Nebraska where it joined my antique machinery collection, at that time a 1929 Caterpillar T
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