Posted by Billy NY on March 15, 2020 at 10:50:14 from (74.70.87.149):
In Reply to: Update on hay field posted by Grandpa love on March 15, 2020 at 06:30:09:
Been following this, smart move. Granted, starting small, testing the waters and putting that old equipment back to work like you mentioned, sensible way to feel your way through. I've got nice ground here for growing hay, but the odds are stacked in regards to pulling it off, no barns standing anymore, no hay equipment and I would have to start with new stands of hay grasses. What I do know is that orchard/timothy does very well here, there were so many great stands of hay around here at one time, I can't recall all of them. I'd do the same thing, start small, see who wants to buy, go from there. My goal would be to provide the best quality hay, and I'd probably take an early 1st cut, and subsequent cuts to cut down on volume for each being a 1 person operation. Those later 1st cuts can make some tonnage, gets stalky too though and even this small field by my house will produce 100 bales.
Some of my knowledge comes from putting up 3000-4000 bales way back when off this ground and another nice field a few miles away. I have not actually baled anything myself since 2009, and that was with my good friend and farmers operation, nice stands too. I used the same baler you have, a NH 315. It was a well kept one too, I should have bought it when they sold his equipment, very fair price and it performed great every year. Only trouble was with certain sisal twine, found that out when baling oat straw, quality of that twine that year was poor, kept breaking bales when they landed in the wagon, it had a thrower. Changed twine, problem solved.
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