Here is the scoop. Presently I have a NH TC33D, great tractor, been very happy with it.:thumbsup: We (the wife and I) have 40 acres, little over half in pasture, the rest is treed. Mostly flat but the back of the property goes up the side of a pretty steep mountain ridge. We just have horses (to keep the wife happy, my boys and I use the property for dirt biking and snowmobiling). Been feeding the hay burners:licking: square bales but those are getting more and more expensive, and more and more of the hay farmers around here are doing round bales. So we want to go to round bales. We have a hay barn big enough to hold all the round bales we need for a year, if we could stack them two high. This is where the TC33D pipes up and announces, "Not with me you are not picking up and stacking full size round bales!" I basically have the go ahead from the boss (aka the wife) to get a bigger tractor to do this job. If I get a bigger tractor, how big is big enough for stacking say a 1200 lb round bale? I would really like to keep the HST as all of the other tractor work on the farm is always back and forth, and back and forth, etc and I won't be able to keep the little tractor if we get a big(ger) one.:confused2:
I also had a crazy idea. :stirthepot: The TC33D could pick up a round bale with a spear on the 3PH and move the round bales to where they need to go. So, really, all I need is an implement to stack and take down the top row of round bales. We are also adding lots of fencing, clearing trees for more pasture and building trails up the mountain ridge behind us. To top it of, in a year or two we are going to build a new house on the farm. All of this sounds like excavator work to me but feel free to set me right if I'm wrong. I think I could sell the boss on an excavator if I could convince her that it could handle the round bale stacking duties.
So what say you, am I nuts or full on BSC?:laughing::anyone:
I also had a crazy idea. :stirthepot: The TC33D could pick up a round bale with a spear on the 3PH and move the round bales to where they need to go. So, really, all I need is an implement to stack and take down the top row of round bales. We are also adding lots of fencing, clearing trees for more pasture and building trails up the mountain ridge behind us. To top it of, in a year or two we are going to build a new house on the farm. All of this sounds like excavator work to me but feel free to set me right if I'm wrong. I think I could sell the boss on an excavator if I could convince her that it could handle the round bale stacking duties.
So what say you, am I nuts or full on BSC?:laughing::anyone: