The 24T makes the 14" x16" bales (measure the height and width of your bale chamber). The length is adjustable with the setting on your star wheel. As we had a #30 thrower on the 24T, we would try to set the bale length at 36" to 39." When baled, they would weigh about 55 to 60 lbs and eventually dry down to about 50 lbs. A good strong first cutting field would yield 125 to 150 bales per acre (for the 3 cuttings). We fertilize our hay fields and have pretty good rain. A tired grass field with no fertilizer might produce 40 to 50 bales/year.
The post just below by J states 950 bales = 1 ton. That is either a typo or math error. If your bales average the 50 lb wgt, then 50 X 40 bales = 2,000 lbs = 1 ton. I usually have 120 to 140 bales on a thrower wagon, a little over 3 ton.
To do your calculation, you need to know the productivity of your fields, and the size of your bales.
If you are storing bales to later sell, then stack them on their side, with the strings going around the 4 sides. Do not stack them with strings on top/bottom of bale. Reason: Hay will shrink as it dries (stem diameter shrinks a bit, length stays same), and with the weight of 10 to 15 layers deep, the bales will be significantly squished, making for loose strings and a very soft bale. Customers do not like shrinky looking bales. If you stack them on edge, any compaction from weight above will make an even tighter bale. Customer thinks they are getting a better product for their money. Besides, bales stacked on edge do not have strings as easily available to mice, and the pile has much less shifting from drying. In your own barn, stack them any way you want to.
To have a barn that can store 30 acres of hay with 3 cuttings, that needs a pretty big barn. For us that would be 4,000 to 4,500 bales of grass mix horse hay. We use an electric elevator to lift the bales up to the higher layers. We will work without the bale elevator for the first 5 or 6 layers, then get the elevator for everything above that. We stack some barns as high as 20 ft, but prefer not to go above 14 ft. Any higher is just too much work and dangerous if the pile begins to give way.
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