cat fever
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I bought my baler about 140 miles from my house. Towed it home on the back roads real slow. Did not have any issues but I was very glad to get it home in one piece.
I bought my baler about 140 miles from my house. Towed it home on the back roads real slow. Did not have any issues but I was very glad to get it home in one piece.
After reading this post I am convinced not to do my own haying for my three horses even though I have enough land to obtain more hay than I need. But I must comment on CAT FEVER's pictures on this first post on this thread......That second picture gave me EQUIPMENT, OUT BUILDING AND FENCE ENVY in a MAJOR way. :licking: That is some of the nicest fencing I have ever seen.:thumbsup: Your "first bale" post made me smile. Thanks to all who contributed to this most interesting thread and saved me from doing myself in.
For what its worth I baled some hay this with a Mahindra 3616 and new holland 68 baler. Everything worked fine but I must say I wouldnt want to go with any smaller tractor.
Small Farm Innovations sells small balers for tractors such as yours.
On buying equipment and haying, don't do it (haying) for the money unless you are a commercial operator and are set up for it like TX. Jim for example. You'll never get there. Now how do you think I know that? On doing other people's places, my experience has been that you get asked to hay a place that somebody wants cleaned up for free or that needs some ag. activity to maintain their ag. property tax exemption. Glad I finally quit it and just take care of my place.
For me it would also be more of a fun """(delete)""" than anything.