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Walk behind Tractor for making hay ?
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any recommendations ?
could I use one for baling hay ?
I have a scythe so cutting the grass is not an issue but moving hay about ? More easy if I could have a small baler .
David
Living in Anjou , France
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They are made, seen videos.
I know the sickle mowers work WELL. But I would buy the disc mower--they cut much faster in tougher conditions (like wet grass).
They are EXPENSIVE (at least here in the states). For the price of a baler you can get an almost new full size round baler.
I have worked with small round bales (the old allis chalmers ones). They were a PITA--lots of twine for the amount of hay (expensive bales) and very hard to feed less than whole bales (not like feeding a flake from a square bale).
Don't forget a rake!
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As far as the CAEB baler, I saw older photos as well, so you might find a used one somewhere.
I have been thinking about how one could buy the baler, and probably the rake as well, and throw all the implements on a landscaper's trailer. Hire a kid for the summer to go make hay for people with 1-5 acre parcels. It's almost impossible here to find someone willing to hay these smaller parcels, mostly because of the long distances to move the equipment at 10 mph down the highway. The brilliance of the two wheel tractor is you can move it in a small trailer at highway speeds.
I would think seriously about doing it, but for the cash outlay and the fact that hiring the labor around here is next to impossible due to kids in sports and inertial laziness, and I'm not she-ra enough to do the work myself. For the right person, it could pay.
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You need to line them all up so you can canvas a neighborhood in one shot like the landscape companies do or it will never pay.
It is a cool idea, and a needed service. But tough to actually make money at.
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Now I just noticed the original question of the OP.
How much land are you cutting David? What are your storage facilities for hay like?
So far this year we've cut about 0.45 hectares (1.1 acres) of hay, excluding what I cut today, some of it with scythes, some a neighbour did with his tractor and drum mower. All of that we then raked by hand, stacked, and then another neighbor came with a tractor and wagon and we hauled it to the barn. The whole fork-onto-trailer then fork-off-of-trailer-into-barn thing isn't so quick, but it isn't so bad either.
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