Mini square baler for CUTs....

   / Mini square baler for CUTs.... #11  
</font><font color="blue" class="small">( Soon CUT balers will be available in the $7,000-8,000 range. )</font>

Do you have any details you would care to share? For instance baler weight? Round or square? Size of bale?

-Mike Z. /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif
 
   / Mini square baler for CUTs.... #12  
If you check the link below, it will give you the details on a mini-round bailer designed for CUTs. Bale weight is around 40lbs. In Europe they pull them with a Gator sized ATV.

http://www.rekord.com/f%20&%20s%20machinery%20pages/Balers/columbia_r_500_minibaler.htm

The manufacturer's website is www.wolagri.it

They also have a model they call the Pony which is for mountainous terrain. I've been looking ino the compact round baler because I've got a 1/4 mile of pipeline R/W across the wooded areas of the farm I'd like to use for hay, but there's no way I can use my NH 310 on the hills.
 
   / Mini square baler for CUTs.... #13  
Ummm....What link?
 
   / Mini square baler for CUTs.... #14  
I can imagine the 1/4 mile of hay in a narrow strip being worth investing in a baler. If it is that steep wouldn't all the bales go rolling down the hill?

I have seen some self loading loose hay wagons, could load one of them then fork it into the baler back home.

I get 2 acres for that piece if 60 ft wide, so 200 bales of hay if small squares. Maybe a hay fork on the tractor loader like in Montana, gathers it for stooking.

</font><font color="blue" class="small">( They also have a model they call the Pony which is for mountainous terrain. I've been looking ino the compact round baler because I've got a 1/4 mile of pipeline R/W across the wooded areas of the farm I'd like to use for hay, but there's no way I can use my NH 310 on the hills. )</font>
 
   / Mini square baler for CUTs.... #15  
Micro, there's two links in the post above. Run your cursor over the text until the cursor changes from an arrow to a hand. Click when it turns into a hand.

You're correct, Slowzuki. Just that stretch wouldn't be worth buying a baler. The pipeline goes for miles before it hits a road. I've got easy access from the top of the ridge. My neighbor has already told me I can take hay off his section of the R/W. While I only have 1/4 mile, there's miles out there.

Besides that I have small fields I can get a tractor into but getting the square baler in the same area doesn't work. Most of them are odd shapes. As for the hay rolling down hill, that might be a good deal if they roll down to my bottom land. I already have a frame that fits my loader forks that I use to transport small bales.

I've also looked into the self loading German hay wagons that load directly from a windrow. Some of those are built for steep terrain also, but they're priced higher than the small round balers. The Italians supposedly build them too, but the one builder I found wasn't currently building them.
 
   / Mini square baler for CUTs.... #16  
I can certainly understand the romance with the idea of the small square or round but I really think picking up hundreds of small round bales will be a pita. Have you looked at centre line small squares such as Hesston?

There used to be a self loading wagon around that lightly compressed hay. Probably held 100 bales equivalent. The front gear off that might get you started on a small self loader.

I could see buying an old scrap baler or pull type conditioner and using the pickup attached to a wagon to build your own unit.
 
   / Mini square baler for CUTs.... #17  
I agree, small bales are always more labor intensive. Here's a link to a self-loading wagon. Click on self loading wagons once you link to the Pottinger site.

http://www.poettinger.at/en/landtechnik/
 
 

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