Posted by kyhayman on August 10, 2010 at 23:19:56 from (75.104.128.36):
In Reply to: hay cutter posted by jack-iowa on August 10, 2010 at 11:56:59:
I've yet to have a customer stay gone more than 2 years who planned to get in the hay business from scratch unless they ended up selling their livestock. Good custom operators are hard to find, theres no question there. We had 5 in the area plus a couple of guys starting up. Both of them are out and we lost two of our old timers last year. One died and one sold out.
I certainly wish you the best and do encourage you to try. Stuff breaks down, the older it is and the harder you use it the more often it generally breaks. Nothing like having to fiddle with a square baler trying to get it to tie when rain is coming, or have a mower breakdown that costs you a weather window fixing it.
As far as what I use to mow, I've been running 2-5408 New Idea discmowers. Just upgraded last year to a NH 1411 discbine. Then realized I was going to need to drop another 20 grand in a tractor upgrade to pull it at a decent speed. I'd say on the low end you could get in for under 10 thousand not counting the tractor. If you've got a lot to do its EASY to get in 10-15 times that.
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