Re: Hay baling rates question

Posted by RodInNS on July 26, 2007 at 14:09:49 from (24.224.246.156):

In Reply to: Hay baling rates question posted by DJL on July 25, 2007 at 20:55:10:

Figure out a price per hour you're happy with, and go with it. It's easier, and less risk to you. The little I do.... the clock starts when I get on the seat, and it stops when I get home. Period. Adjust the baler's hourly rate according to how many bales an hour you figure it will bang out, and the twine it will use.
Around here doing anything by the bale with these guys is a crap shoot for me. If I figured it on my crop, and then cut/raked/baled theirs, I might very well end up with 1/4 to 1/2 the bales.... and then my rates are screwed up, and I lose. You still have to cut it, and the light crop takes just as much time. You still have to rake it, which takes just as much time on the light crop.... and then you bale it, which may go a bit quicker on a light crop. Costs are much the same regardless of crop volume. That's why poor fields don't pay anyone. It's a lesson I don't mind teaching some people the hard way if they insist on cutting those fields....

Rod

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