Hay making 2022

[bobk]

I think there's been a few articles over the year's in the farming press about that design how do you get on with it? Over here my landlord bales maybe 500 acres a month of Lucerne all loaded singly by hand on trailers we keep telling him there are other ways but it falls on deaf ears.

Even youtube works in Kenya

 

[GAM]

We are all finished this year both hay and haylage, now available for contracting...

 

[Lowland1]

Totally out of date here.

But if you go back 40 years loads of great kit available. But farmers did not buy it & in real terms more affordable than today. If there were no round or big square balers farmers would buy Hew Holland bale wagons & top notch elevators. But 40 years ago they did not, I wonder why?

I remember seeing a New Holland balewagon in 1978. Our neighbour bought one of the first Hesston balers in 1979 but my Dad still insisted on us hand stacking bales in 24s and 32s up until 1990 when i left home. Then he got a flat8 something he’d refused because it was stupid to run all around the field picking up eights.

Even youtube works in Kenya

Yes it does but as i wrote above everyone has different ideas about costs and efficiencies.

 

[Bob c]

Very interesting design.
If I'm correct, I came to look at your JD38 a few years ago, to see what they were like and you showed me the sledge

that would of been frank Henderson`s sledge

 

[Bob c]

I think there's been a few articles over the year's in the farming press about that design how do you get on with it? Over here my landlord bales maybe 500 acres a month of Lucerne all loaded singly by hand on trailers we keep telling him there are other ways but it falls on deaf ears.

frank Henderson`s sledge the one in the sale in the FW weekly

 

[Lowland1]

frank Henderson`s sledge the one in the sale in the FW weekly

Yes there was a Power Farming article about it. Is yours the same or similar?

 

[Bob c]

Yes there was a Power Farming article about it. Is yours the same or similar?

same, , frank has done more mods over years
frank has done 100k conventional bales a season for several years

 

[Grassman]

I'm impressed by how well farmers of today stack with tele handlers. I know I can't do it so tidy.

Does anyone still stack barns by hand?

I mark bays out with builders twine to keep straight & have 6 different courses so that there are no cracks in the stack. I'm a bit of a dinosaur. 15k bales hay & straw, I'm the only one on the stack.

Its on the wish list to fit a flat eight to the industrial 2.5 ton forktruck we use in the yard to put the bales on the stack.

I'm all mini hesston here. Not touched a little bale in last 20 years.
If I was ever considering it I would have a bale packer.

 

[bobk]

I'm all mini hesston here. Not touched a little bale in last 20 years.
If I was ever considering it I would have a bale packer.

Me too , you just have to educate your customers

 

[Bob c]

3 made
franks
a chap at St Margaret South Elmham he moved on to big bales , I Bought this one
one for farmer friend of franks which he sold and now in australia

 

[bobk]

I'm all mini hesston here. Not touched a little bale in last 20 years.
If I was ever considering it I would have a bale packer.

What baler have you got ?

 

[Grassman]

What baler have you got ?

2008 Nh bb930. 80x70.
What's yours?

 

[bobk]

2008 Nh bb930. 80x70.
What's yours?

Ha ha , them's enormous .

80x50 here , baler drops them in 2's
Hesston 4600 , not many around
Think @Goweresque bought a new one not long ago

 

[Goweresque]

Ha ha , them's enormous .

80x50 here , baler drops them in 2's
Hesston 4600 , not many around
Think @Goweresque bought a new one not long ago

A new 50x80 baler rather than a new Hesston 4600, they are no longer made.

 

[bobk]

A new 50x80 baler rather than a new Hesston 4600, they are no longer made. View attachment 1053530

Any good

 

[Grassman]

A new 50x80 baler rather than a new Hesston 4600, they are no longer made. View attachment 1053530

Ahh I remember you getting that. How's it gone. I forget the make of it?

 

[Goweresque]

Any good

It works well, no problems in the 4 years I've had it, bar when I baled up a branch and bent a needle but at least that episode proved all the shear bolts worked correctly and I was up and running again in a few days. New needle came from the guy who imports them,he keeps a stock of basic stuff. I like that it has no electrics, or rather while it has a control box in the cab you wouldn't need that to run it, its mostly for info rather than anything else. Considerably faster than the 4600 too, and can take a bigger swath which makes things easier.

Ahh I remember you getting that. How's it gone. I forget the make of it?

Supertino. Italian.

 

[hendrebc]

It works well, no problems in the 4 years I've had it, bar when I baled up a branch and bent a needle but at least that episode proved all the shear bolts worked correctly and I was up and running again in a few days. New needle came from the guy who imports them,he keeps a stock of basic stuff. I like that it has no electrics, or rather while it has a control box in the cab you wouldn't need that to run it, its mostly for info rather than anything else. Considerably faster than the 4600 too, and can take a bigger swath which makes things easier.



Supertino. Italian.

What sort of money would a baler like that be if you don't mind me asking?

 

[glasshouse]

I think there's been a few articles over the year's in the farming press about that design how do you get on with it? Over here my landlord bales maybe 500 acres a month of Lucerne all loaded singly by hand on trailers we keep telling him there are other ways but it falls on deaf ears.

Maybe he likes to keep folk working

 

[glasshouse]

Finished baling last field of hay tonight
about 7
190 acres done

Sitting now in the conservatory with the rain battering off the roof.