Posted by Jal-sd on July 20, 2020 at 18:18:17 from (142.0.9.52):
In Reply to: Re: hay stackers? posted by Tony in SD on July 20, 2020 at 17:38:03:
They were just coming out at the time I was growing up on a farm that had 180 acres of alfalfa that had to be harvested 3X a year. We also farmed small grain & row crops on 3 quarters. We had about 180 acres of pasture for about 100 cow/calf pairs. We "loose" stacked our hay in a stack frame. If it didn't rain on it, we could do it in 9 days. When I went off to college, Dad gave up some of the land, sold a bunch of cattle & thought about getting one of those new mechanical stack builders. After a couple of years of investigation, he decided they would be too "high maintenance", so he quit hay farming as his summer college student help was gone too. I think he was correct & that's why many are setting in the weeds today. Big rounds appear to be much easier to maintain.
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