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East of Broken Bow | What is location?
We do 500 acres+ every year of dryland hay in Nebraska, and I don't think we spend 100 hours baling. It is the cutting and raking that takes time. Some years when it is dry like this year seems to be, we will spend 6-8 hours on a 14 foot haybine cutting, then 3-4 hours raking that field, and bale it in under an hour.
On the flipside, we have some irrigated fields that take as long to bale as it does to cut.
I have run the haybine with an open station tractor, and provided your fields are smooth and somewhat square so you can pick your travel direction and which side of the field you work from, it isn't all that bad if you are somewhere that the heat isn't a killer.
For 10K I don't think you will get a much better tractor than an IH 1066. Reliable unless abused, fairly easy on fuel, and parts are easy to find, cheaper than most, and in general they are easy to work on. However I would strongly look at upping the tractor budget if you can. | |
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