Paul Wald said: (quoted from post at 05:38:17 05/29/10) 2 guys I usually have bale have new balers. One a JD 568, the other a 5x6 Case IH. Baling mostly clover and timothy, it takes a good bale to hit 1800 pounds. Costs between 10 and 12 bucks a bale. I will probably never get back to doing all the hay, work mornings 6 days a week now. Right now I have some heavy fescue/clover, and all the big guys are busy planting or puttin up alfalfa. Fescue dries up and loses weight so fast, would be nice to have an option to get some done myself.
My area it's 6.50 a roll for the guy to roll a windrow and leave it on the field. Not a big deal to get someone to do it here but you folks are spread out a lot more and have a much bigger requirement. I ed 60 rolls between 5 and 8 hundred pounds :roll:
Lost 25 rolls last year because the guy rolling forgot a field and it got rained on, so I bought a small square baler to put up enough to fill the barn (rolls are stored elsewhere).
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