Given where you are you will need a combination mower and conditioner although there are the old pre-1960 conditioners out there and they are also being made new albeit by shortline manufacturers. Despite many crop guys chucking their hay equipment the last few years old equipment such as New Holland 461 haybines are bringing the better part of a thousand dollars and same era (1960's) 69 or 270 balers are bringing the same kind of money. You will need a tedder (another 1000 plus dollars) some rake to combine windrows (maybe, possibly under 500 bucks if it does not have to say New Holland on the side of it), Flat rack wagons with old 6 ton gears 5 to 700 dollars a piece or kicker wagons with similar gears a thousand a piece. Good hay around here means three tons per acre yield and good second cutting can mean nearly two tons per acre. A good season means pulling 5, 6 or more tons per acre. In heavy hay with older smaller equipment I would want at least one 50 horsepower tractor that has some chassis weight (no 3 year old compact) to hold itself plus machinery on hills. When we baled a lot of hay and wheat straw the JD 4010 (1963 vintage) ran the 347 baler and in heavy hay that tractor grunted in 4th gear. A good 50 horsepower tractor (1960's vintage should be doable for 5000 dollar or less depending on model and condition. A lot of things to be thought over on this. As somebody else said you could do all the preliminary work on this then get kicked to the curb if your landlord is not very ethical.
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