Well in my opinion a baler is only mandatory if you plan to sell the hay as no one will buy it otherwise.
For a guy who wants to hay 2 to 3 acres for his own use then the old ways are they only ways that make fiscal sense. Two acres could easily be hayed with nothing more than a hand scythe, hand rake, pitch fork, and a $5 cheapo tarp to collect it with and use as a drag. Laughingly there are lots of idiots out there buying a $25,000 tractor and a $15,000 baler (all on credit so add interest) to bale 2 to 3 acres. These geniuses think they are making money too on their enterprise. Sadly most of them have kids and that money could be better served in a college investment fund for the kids.
No reason you can not put up hay the real old fashioned way as it worked for thousands of years (prior to the mid 1940's) assuming you willing to put in the physical labor to do it. Sadly today we have too many lazy people who are not willing to work that hard. (Ever notice that you do not see a bunch of fat people in the pictures posted from the 1920's, 1930's, 1940's, 1950's).
Now once the acreage meets a certain minimum level then more modern mechanized ways are certainly justified, economically feasible, and certainly warranted.
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