Posted by KYfarm on August 30, 2010 at 04:55:05 from (74.128.24.86):
In Reply to: Advice posted by Randy Cook on August 29, 2010 at 19:36:16:
Sounds to me like all you really need is a tractor and a bush-hog. Investing and maintaining all the machinery needed to produce hay on your 60 acres is very expensive and time consuming. If your neighbor has it all and is doing in currently i'd stay with that.
Get yourself something in the range of a MF265 or a Ford5610 and an 8' to 10' bushhog and have at it.
If you just REALLY want to make hay they you do actually need about 70HP PTO a at a minimum and a a decent disc mower, rake and a newer baler. You also will need to become a mechanic because the disc mower needs regular maintenance and balers must be maintained and adjusted properly or you will begin to lose sanity when your baler stops making bales with windrows on the ground and weather approaching. Then you will also need a good amount of time because hooking-up and dropping a disc mower can be a real chore. Like said below it is gonna run close to $30K+ to acquire all that machinery. If you buy very used hay equipment you will be sorry unless you are an experienced implement mechanic with a great deal of time on your hands.
Also, you will never make back your investment by doing some custom baling on the side. It would take full-time hours on your part to make back that kind of money after looking at the costs in diesel, maintenance and time.
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