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£6.50So what price per bale for a 120x90 weighing 450-500kgs.
£6.50
That’s why there is no money in it,
early eighties £5 bale, Hesston 4800 cost price ? Guessing 25k, tractor TW 25 30k? Driver £4hr diesel 12ppl string £15 double spool
Year 2020, XD Massey 120k Fendt 900 series 90k (used value) driver £15 fuel 40ppl string £43 double spool.
Not difficult to see who earns the money,
I will not contract bale for anyone unless I draw the straw out at my pricing in the winter. You cannot send quarter million pounds out working for farmers, only a fool.
Your very lucky that your contractor owns the only 120x90 Claas Baler to put out a decent bale weight, every one got rid of them for producing soft bales unreliably up this way.
There was no competition, long time before the NH D1000, now many farmers own big square balers never mind contractors, probably the person who earns the most money is the person with good old reliable horsepower and a mid nineties baler with very good mechanical knowledge. Shiny kit does not pay.£5 per bale in the 80’s! Is that right?
Never thought I'd say it, but bouts of spring barley straw far too big last year. Bloody stuff was lumping under tractor and couldn't get a even feed into baler. Was a horrible job. Plenty bales though. Needed a crop press. Had a full length belly sheet from front of tractor to baler.Used to be a dream to get out of a thin barley crop (not that you probably see many of those up there) and into some wheat, you need the flakes going through to push the knots of the billhooks well. Was like night and day.
There was no competition, long time before the NH D1000, now many farmers own big square bakers never mind contractors, probably the person who earns the most money is the person with good old reliable horsepower and a mid nineties baler with very good mechanical knowledge. Shiny kit does not pay.
Best straw i ever had, good weight toyou mean like this ? But the balers a 2002.
Bale all the straw you can store this year and I will take it from you and not rob you.you mean like this ? But the balers a 2002.
£6.50
That’s why there is no money in it,
early eighties £5 bale, Hesston 4800 cost price ? Guessing 25k, tractor TW 25 30k? Driver £4hr diesel 12ppl string £15 double spool
Year 2020, XD Massey 120k Fendt 900 series 90k (used value) driver £15 fuel 40ppl string £43 double spool.
Not difficult to see who earns the money,
I will not contract bale for anyone unless I draw the straw out at my pricing in the winter. You cannot send quarter million pounds out working for farmers, only a fool.
That’s for 120x90 XD bales, they can take it or leave it for me. Days get shorter from where they were 20 years ago, did 12500 Hesstons one year with one Baler, never a hope in the last ten years.£6.50 would be a dream round here, in fact £5 would be too.
I’ve a quadrant baler and struggle to get £3.50, waste of time, just do my own now.
Next door farmer bales ours, MF quads 120x70. £3.95. Hardly ever below 350kg. Mostly between 360-400kg.
Charge £4 a bale here same size bale, needs to go up really not much in it at that.Next door farmer bales ours, MF quads 120x70. £3.95. Hardly ever below 350kg. Mostly between 360-400kg.
Fair price, unachievable locally for quads. North Staffordshire
Charge £4 a bale here same size bale, needs to go up really not much in it at that.
Next door farmer is retiring after harvest. Had a farmer/contractor quote us £5 for 120x90 a few weeks ago. New Class baler.
Yes. Nobody else locally bales 120x70, so will have to go up to the 120x90. We thought £5 was very reasonableabove prices are for 120x70 so £5 is cheap