Haying w. Massey 35

I'm looking for recommendations on haying equipment.
I've seen MF 8's for $800 but I'm not sure I'd have the power to drive it.
Would I be able to pull a wagon in addition to the baler?
Should I look for a small round baler?

We used to stack three bales across the back, one in the middle running fore and aft, the others running sideways with the ends hanging off the edge. We'd get three groups per layer like this, or 15 bales. The 2nd and 3rd tiers would be just as wide, but with one bale front-to-back on the outside, and the others running sideways, with the 3rd tier having the fore-aft bale on the other side. Tiers 4-6 would have two bales running sideways, then two outside bales fore-aft with a middle one sideways (alternating again); then tier 7 and sometimes 8 would be just 1½ bales wide. Thus we'd get 96 or 111 bales per wagon load. Damned if I know how you got nearly double that, if you're talking about the same sized bales I am (twice as long as wide, about 12" high).

The biggest challenge sometimes was getting it to the barn without spilling part or all of the load, especially on rutted, rough or hilly lanes, or when rushing to beat an impending rain storm. When it dumped, we always had an "animated" debate: was it the fault of the driver of the load, or he who had stacked it, if it tumbled? Worst case was when the entire wagon tipped over; lesser but still a huge mess was when most of the load (bales all tied together went swiftly from an asset to a liability) came tumbling off; best of a bad situation was when just one corner or side would come down, with no bales busted... right!). The person deemed at "fault" had to re-stack the load. Everyone else present (usually just one or two others) would invariably help, but the hardest work would go to whoever lost the argument about responsibility, and who would suffer considerable ribbing and loss of face. The real tricks were to know who the best stackers were in order to drive their loads in, to recognize a loose load in advance, and to find something more important to do when it was time to drive an exceptionally loose load to the barn. Me, I became real "adept" at baling so I'd be otherwise engaged!

And what does any of this have to to do with the original question?!

We used to stack three bales across the back, one in the middle running fore and aft, the others running sideways with the ends hanging off the edge. We'd get three groups per layer like this, or 15 bales. The 2nd and 3rd tiers would be just as wide, but with one bale front-to-back on the outside, and the others running sideways, with the 3rd tier having the fore-aft bale on the other side. Tiers 4-6 would have two bales running sideways, then two outside bales fore-aft with a middle one sideways (alternating again); then tier 7 and sometimes 8 would be just 1½ bales wide. Thus we'd get 96 or 111 bales per wagon load. Damned if I know how you got nearly double that, if you're talking about the same sized bales I am (twice as long as wide, about 12" high).

The next challenge was getting it to the barn without spilling part or all of it, especially on rutted, rough or hilly lanes, or when rushing to beat the impending rain. We always had an "animated" debate: was it the fault of the driver of the load, or he who had stacked it, if it tumbled? Worst case was when the entire wagon tipped over; lesser but still a mess was when most of the load (bales all tied together went swiftly from an asset to a liability) came tumbling off; best of a bad situation was when just one corner or side would come down, with no bales busted... right!). The person at fault had to re-stack the load. Everyone else present would invariably help, but the hardest work would go to whoever lost the argument about responsibility, who would suffer considerable ribbing and loss of face. The trick was to have something else to do when it was time to drive an exceptionally loose load to the barn (and to know who the good stackers were, and be sure to drive their loads in). I became real adept at baling so I'd be otherwise engaged.

And what does any of this have to to do with the original question?!