I AGREE 100%. Fewer times you handle something, especially something heavy & awkward like a hay or straw bale the better. The big round and square bales popular now probably save time, but for some things wouldn't work at all. We used to bed with small straw bales, 14"x16"x48", could do 2 or 3 small hog houses 6 ft by 8 ft, and also bed hog shelters, big loafing sheds 7 ft, 8 ft, or wider on special order up to 12 & 14 ft and 16 ft long and 4, 5, or 6 ft high. Took a couple small bales of straw to bed them. But how many of both do you think a big square bale could bed? Neighbors used to bale onto the ground, then come along with a low hay cart to pick the bales off the ground. You could step on&off the cart easily even when moving. But they had one guy baling, one guy driving tractor pulling hay cart, three men on cart picking & stacking bales. They would go to the barn and one unload the cart and three stack the haymow. Our whole baling crew was 2 men and a small boy. I started driving the tractor pulling the baler when I was about 8 or 9. Neighbor who owned the baler rode the rack, Dad hauled in and unloaded, and the bales stayed exactly where they stopped rolling after falling off the end of the elevator. The lack of hands eliminated the chance of having to handle bales too much. Last time Dad and I baled we did 20 acres of Alfalfa, 2nd cutting I think, between 900 and 1000 bales in an afternoon, tiny bales out of an IH #37 baler. Think between 90 and 100 per load, baled both racks full, pulled them home and unloaded. If we had baled with the IH #55T with the monster bales it made would have been 700-750 bales, and probably taken two days.
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