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| Check out the BCS hay making/baling line of equipment for two wheel tractor and talk to Joel at Earth Tools - you can sell mini-bales at a premium to suburban bunny and chicken owners. www.earthtoolsbcs.com
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| very cute, how will you gets parts? 2-3 weeks by mail order?
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Hello,
I noticed in the Hobby Farms magazine an ad for a New Holland minibaler.
http://www.minibaler.com/
It looks like a table top and pull versions are available.
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| Coming from a ranch that puts up a about 500 acres of hay. I have to tell you their is considerable expense in any piece of equipment. It is probably cheaper in the long run to hire someone that allready has the equipment to come do your haying for you. Someone mentioned that you can make the hay bale any size. I would recomend using a small square baler and setting it to whatever size you want. HAving to store and maintain equipment all year long is very expensive. Hope this helps!
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| Oh no Jamie, no one should put equipment away, leave it outside in the rain and cold. I bet it would cost as much OR MORE to own that tinker equipment.
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oldfarmer (2/4/2009)
Oh no Jamie, no one should put equipment away, leave it outside in the rain and cold. I bet it would cost as much OR MORE to own that tinker equipment. Why wouldn't you take care of your equipment? Putting it under cover is a GOOD thing. Leaving it out in the weather is a BAD thing!!!
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| my first reaction is that any hay baler you could use with a garden tractor would be more in the nature of a toy, rather than a machine. if you want small bales, have your hay put into square bales and have the guy running the baler to set it to make lightweight bales. that's usually a simple and quick adjustment on most square balers. just be aware that lighter bales mean a greater number of bales out of a given amount of grass- and a lot of balers charge by the bale. so you'll be wind up paying more on a per-ton basis.
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| ditto Booger, we pay $2.50 here. Then it's $7 to the person unloading the wagon. $12 if it is stacked in the wagon. If you buy the hay by the bail, you will then pay another $1 per bail.
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I've seen the add in Mother Earth News, for new "tiny" bailers, but I don't remember? .. I've wanted to look, but never got that far.
good luck
JLH
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in Amana, IA
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I looked at them and was a bit taken back by the price. A round bales that is the same physical size as a square bale (2 foot diameter) cost nearly 8 grand.
I wouldn't mind keeping my sheep operation separate from the dairy farm as much as possible, but for me that would mean selling 266 lambs just to break even on the purchase price of the mini-baler. I understand costs of manufacture and equipment design, but that kind of price really kills it for the market they are after.
I really hate to say a negative comment about a potential advertiser for a magazine so gracious enough to host this forum, but its hard to pencil out a price like that. In the end I'll still search for my separation of sheep and dairy farm, but I'll do it through winter grazing or a small 4 FOOT FLAIL CHOPPER...now that is what we all really need. (Hint, hint, hint small farm equipment makers).
Eat lamb...because 50,000 coyotes CAN'T be wrong!
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