Re-bailing, is it ever worth it ?

[cousinjack]

I have always liked the idea of rebailing both hay and straw into conventional bales.

Much less stress in the summer - just smack it into big squares or rounds just as it’s fit, so easy to cart, stack. Etc…

Then, in the winter, when it’s cold and wet outside, feed them into a conventional baler and watch the money roll in from the small bales …

In theory

Only I can’t see that it ever stacks up financially ?

anyone actually do this successfully ?

 

[Lofty1984]

I have always liked the idea of rebailing both hay and straw into conventional bales.

Much less stress in the summer - just smack it into big squares or rounds just as it’s fit, so easy to cart, stack. Etc…

Then, in the winter, when it’s cold and wet outside, feed them into a conventional baler and watch the money roll in from the small bales …

In theory

Only I can’t see that it ever stacks up financially ?

anyone actually do this successfully ?

See plenty do it whether it stack up financially I’ve no idea

 

[M-J-G]

I've done it twice in my life, once when I was in my teens, and again in my 30s just to remind me of how totally f#*king stupid I was in my teens.

Bale it in a suitable form at the time, and if you get it wrong learn how to plan better.

 

[Fendt516profi]

@Will 1594 ?

 

[Flat 10]

I've done it twice in my life, once when I was in my teens, and again in my 30s just to remind me of how totally f#*king stupid I was in my teens.

Bale it in a suitable form at the time, and if you get it wrong learn how to plan better.

This. Get a proper conventional baler and sledge (10s obviously ) and crack on

 

[Chae1]

@Will 1594 ?

He tried me to rebale some round bales into Hesstons!

Errr no.

 

[cousinjack]

This. Get a proper conventional baler and sledge (10s obviously ) and crack on

I currently run flat 10 sledge and grabs.

however I’ve adapted it to make packs of 15 using two and a half foot bales.
The horsey crowd prefer them.

 

[Still Farming]

Dust, noise, issues feeding fodder into baler, handling little bales there after.
Few doing it around here but never stacks up all the work and grief surly?

 

[MontyK]

The Hay Team on YouTube do a hell of a lot.

 

[Pan mixer]

This is how to do it.

 

[Courier]

I currently run flat 10 sledge and grabs.

however I’ve adapted it to make packs of 15 using two and a half foot bales.
The horsey crowd prefer them.

Same price per bale though

 

[Courier]

This is how to do it.

Everyone wearing hoodies to keep a bit of the dust out

 

[Chickcatcher]

Did some 3 years ago after strings didn't survive the winter. Krone 8 stringers achieved 23 small conventional bales.
krone this year weighing 520Kg worth £15 a bale for straw out of swath, £7 to bale £3.50 to cart and put into store would come out at £1.10 bale before rebale.

 

[Pan mixer]

Everyone wearing hoodies to keep a bit of the dust out

It is probably quite nippy there though

 

[JeremyD]

They are called idiot bricks for a reason....

 

[som farmer]

used to rebale rounds for the livery, turned some very moderate hay, into something the girls loved.
to get more than 3 horsey girls, to agree hay is good, is a miracle, we got 10, a full house.
Tells me, it must be good, bloody amazing really.

livery no more, and little baler sold, not missed.

 

[Pan mixer]

I have occasionally done some, only for our own farrowing houses that need small bales, not too bad with the spreadabale fiing into the small baler with a couple of bits of ply to keep things in line.

 

[DeeGee]

Maybe they can make money; but I always remember asking my son to fully roll out a Welgar straw bale on the field and put it through our New Holland 376, with the attractive idea of doubling my money by getting out twelve little ones at £4 each.

My fault entirely. The little baler moved forward about half a meter and grabbed a 4’ swath and just pulled it in.

This not only caused a massive bang from an offended shear bolt but also snapped four packer forks and generally just choked up the whole baler causing considerable damage and much coarse language.

So if you do try it you will need to recruit (willing) assistants wielding old fashioned pikels and another monitor to constantly adjust the bale press to avoid the inevitable mis shaped bananas and those bales that alert distant monitors of fluctuations in the Richter scale.

 

[Flat 10]

I currently run flat 10 sledge and grabs.

however I’ve adapted it to make packs of 15 using two and a half foot bales.
The horsey crowd prefer them.

Yeah they are ok

 

[Simon Chiles]

I have always liked the idea of rebailing both hay and straw into conventional bales.

Much less stress in the summer - just smack it into big squares or rounds just as it’s fit, so easy to cart, stack. Etc…

Then, in the winter, when it’s cold and wet outside, feed them into a conventional baler and watch the money roll in from the small bales …

In theory

Only I can’t see that it ever stacks up financially ?

anyone actually do this successfully ?

I can’t see how it adds up financially either. If you’ve got a market for conventional bales and want the convenience of handling big bales in the summer then a bale packer is the solution.