Minibalers

[czechsonofagun]

that is amazing:

Mini-Baler Prices and Packages

From what I could find, if you sell your hay is minibales to the home pet market, you get like $5 for a bale the size of a book or so.

 

[riptides]

that is amazing:

Mini-Baler Prices and Packages

From what I could find, if you sell your hay is minibales to the home pet market, you get like $5 for a bale the size of a book or so.

You go to your local Meadow Farms (a landscaping company for those of you out of this area) and see the prices of a minibale around Halloween time?

Boggles my mind.

 

[creekbend]

Simply unreal in regards to prices.

 

[chucko]

The must come with enough land to get started

 

[Luremaker]

At $5.00 a bale it would take between 2,000 and 3,000 bales to pay for the baler, and you'd still need all the other equipment needed to hay. Around here Home Depot sells the mini-straw bales for $7.99 each:thumbsup:.

 

[chkntrktr]

I read in Farm Show a while back about someone who sells plans to make your own mini-baler. Probably kind of slow but a whole lot cheaper.

 

[Taylortractornut]

My little Takakita baler paid for itself with trashy hay for fall decorations. Women in town were giving 8 bucks a pop for them.

 

[MotorSeven]

This is not a bad idea for small operation goat/sheep/horse people. Some of the folks buying my 4x4 bales don't even own a tractor, so moving them around is a choir. Even a full size square bale is a lot for some, so a mini bale has a nitch. I'm kicking the idea a round some.

So how many mini bales make up a regular square bale?

 

[Heywood Jannockitov]

At $5.00 a bale it would take between 2,000 and 3,000 bales to pay for the baler, and you'd still need all the other equipment needed to hay. Around here Home Depot sells the mini-straw bales for $7.99 each:thumbsup:.

Or, you could just buy round bales, one at a time if storage is a problem, and re-bale it into mini bales. Anyone could do that without investing in any additional equipment. Think how many mini bales you could get out of one $30 round bale.

 

[mikim]

dunno where you get round bales for $30 ....but it darn sure ain't around here. I don't think they've seen $60 for a long time.

 

[Heywood Jannockitov]

I don't. I pay $20.00 ...for 4x4s though

 

[charlz]

Or, you could just buy round bales, one at a time if storage is a problem, and re-bale it into mini bales. Anyone could do that without investing in any additional equipment. Think how many mini bales you could get out of one $30 round bale.

I thought about that at one time but I would have to build a barn or something to house the operation so that really adds to the cost.

 

[Taylortractornut]

I built a bale unroller one time for atractor. The man that owned it also had me make a powerunit skid with a 3phase motor to run his NH square baler. He and his son worked alone and they did all round rolls. We used and old feeder house off a combine to let the hay land on and feed the baler pickup

 

[Ductape]

They get $7 + here for the mini bales. They are made of the raunchiest of hay.... definitely nothing you would be feeding out. They are kinda cute.... I can see why people buy them.

 

[Heywood Jannockitov]

They get $7 + here for the mini bales. They are made of the raunchiest of hay.... definitely nothing you would be feeding out. They are kinda cute.... I can see why people buy them.

Wow! Then again, anything miniaturized seems to cost more