Shavings man
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Hi all , hope your having a god day ? Wot roughly should we expect to pay to make hay with a 2 acre field? Many thanks ps cutting turning and baling.
Hay making
- Thread starter Shavings man
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- Location
- South Wales UK
Lots of threads on subject use search
- Location
- West Kent
Anywhere between £2 - £5 per bale.
A small area like that wants really to be done on an hourly basis for each task. If it's a light crop it could easily end up being very expensive hay.
A small area like that wants really to be done on an hourly basis for each task. If it's a light crop it could easily end up being very expensive hay.
Are you paying or doing it .
- Location
- Scottish Highlands
Location, location, location.
Shavings man
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Derbyshire
Shavings man
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Paying
- Location
- West Kent
Neither. Got enough of my own to do.
- Location
- Hereford
Don't bother ... better off grazing it and buying some in.
Exactly this, tried making hay on my dad's 4ac for several years running and with no machinery of our own it was a PITA to get contractors to do it and cost about the same as buying them off the merchant in the village. So last year we dropped one of the rented fields and grazed the hay field.
The other advantage of buying in is we didn't need to chance the weather or store the bales; just pop up the road for a trailer load when required.
Skintagain
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- Location
- Perched on the Pennines
If you really want to do it and you have a tractor buy a drum mower and a Haybob then you only have to find someone to bale it. Otherwise you will struggle unless it gets bunched up with other nearby pieces.
Shann_mann
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Where abouts in Derbyshire are you @Shavings man ?
It was already broken.
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- Location
- South Norfolk
I cut, turned and baled into small bales 2 acres for someone last year for £200. I can see their house out my back window, so local. Cutting is OK and turning. But baling such a small field is a pain. Always bales in the way so you are in and out the cab clearing a route through. Then when I said how much I wanted they said it was quite expensive for 160 bales! I will probably be too busy to do it this year.
Skintagain
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- Location
- Perched on the Pennines
You were too cheap and they are cheeky barstewards! Half of the hay is standard for me usually. A chap offered me a third of his weedy hay on 2 acres last year...someone else did itI cut, turned and baled into small bales 2 acres for someone last year for £200. I can see their house out my back window, so local. Cutting is OK and turning. But baling such a small field is a pain. Always bales in the way so you are in and out the cab clearing a route through. Then when I said how much I wanted they said it was quite expensive for 160 bales! I will probably be too busy to do it this year.
- Location
- Near Colchester
half the hay.
- Location
- West Kent
In a year like this, with no fertiliser put on that might only amount to £100
- Location
- Scottish Highlands
Just make sure it's you who counts the bales.
Grassman
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- Location
- Derbyshire
That job is not worth the hassle. Imagine if it got spoilt through rain or breakdown. They would of probably refused to pay or threatened suing you!I cut, turned and baled into small bales 2 acres for someone last year for £200. I can see their house out my back window, so local. Cutting is OK and turning. But baling such a small field is a pain. Always bales in the way so you are in and out the cab clearing a route through. Then when I said how much I wanted they said it was quite expensive for 160 bales! I will probably be too busy to do it this year.
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