Delivering hay pics & stories

[Hay Dude]

A Krone high density 3x4 baler loaded up is $150,000+
Fendt tractors to pull them are $350,000. :laughing:

 

[senecak19]

Thanks for the feedback. I had a sneaking suspicion this would be the net outcome. If tractors are expensive, implements can only be worse. I just helped a friend purchase a new/used logging skidder at $150,000. He’s a realist as well and readily admits, it’s all possible because of what his father and grandfather did decades ago. So fully understand cost of entry being outrageous. I can appreciate that. As for the hard work, I’d be okay with it. You don’t grow up in a Mason family and shy away from manual labor . In the meantime, one can dream.

 

[Hay Dude]

Thanks for the feedback. I had a sneaking suspicion this would be the net outcome. If tractors are expensive, implements can only be worse. I just helped a friend purchase a new/used logging skidder at $150,000. He’s a realist as well and readily admits, it’s all possible because of what his father and grandfather did decades ago. So fully understand cost of entry being outrageous. I can appreciate that. As for the hard work, I’d be okay with it. You don’t grow up in a Mason family and shy away from manual labor . In the meantime, one can dream.

You can buy older used stuff, but it typically has problems, or drips oil everywhere or needs repairs.
I am 1st gen farmer. I started off by selling some of my construction machinery and investing in a decent tractor and some junk farm machinery. It just evolved from there.

 

[Semper Paratus]

My neighbor used to buy his horse hay from a dairy operation. He would buy 60-70 tons of first cut orchard grass a year. The dairy guy used the hay fields for converting cow manure to money. The dairy guy fed second/third cutting hay to his own dairy herd, supplemented with grain. As times change my neighbor passed at 102, all but the last couple of years active and productive, and the dairy guy closed down.

 

[japody]

I've been getting hay from the same guy for the last 10 years. I usually buy about 200 rolls from him. Was paying $30 delivered for 4 x 5 rolls. He just bought a new hay roller that produces 5 x 5 rolls. He went up to $35/roll. I couldn't argue with him. My clutch went out on my tractor and he even brought one over to unload the hay for me. He says that he barely breaks even. I'm lucky to have him.

 

[Hay Dude]

I've been getting hay from the same guy for the last 10 years. I usually buy about 200 rolls from him. Was paying $30 delivered for 4 x 5 rolls. He just bought a new hay roller that produces 5 x 5 rolls. He went up to $35/roll. I couldn't argue with him. My clutch went out on my tractor and he even brought one over to unload the hay for me. He says that he barely breaks even. I'm lucky to have him.

Yeah you are getting hay for 1/2 price. Theres also a lot of hobby guys making hay for beer money. They kill the farmer selling hay to feed his family. Unfortunately, many folks dont know the difference between baled hay and baled weeds. (Not saying your guy is one of them)

 

[japody]

Yeah you are getting hay for 1/2 price. Theres also a lot of hobby guys making hay for beer money. They kill the farmer selling hay to feed his family. Unfortunately, many folks dont know the difference between baled hay and baled weeds. (Not saying your guy is one of them)

He runs a pretty big operation He sells me the his surplus.

 

[5030]

You can buy older used stuff, but it typically has problems, or drips oil everywhere or needs repairs.
I am 1st gen farmer. I started off by selling some of my construction machinery and investing in a decent tractor and some junk farm machinery. It just evolved from there.

I always buy new. That old saying, never breaks in the barn always applies. New as in new New Holland. Run mine 7 years depreciate them fully and replace. Rinse and repeat except for tractors. I'll never own a T4 final tractor. Total PITA junk.

 

[5030]

My Kauffman 28 foot tandem axle gooseneck has been sitting in the side yard for 5 years now unused. My hay customer (he buys every thing I make), comes into the hay field I'm running with his tractor trailers, drops trailers in each field and I load his trailers (48 foot spreads) with rounds, he straps them and hauls them to his place. All I do is run the hay, I don't haul it anymore. All rounds, no squares, so the NH 575 sits in the barn unnused as well.

I should sell both the 575 and the Kauffman.

 

[CobyRupert]

Delivering hay pics & stories

Picture from a couple years ago after we built the barn and wife and daughter brought their hayburners home from the stable. Must of been first winter, because we always get our hay off the wagon in the summer now.
Stopped loading at an even 60 bales. I’m still a little disappointed I didn’t load the top layer differently and go for the elusive 70.