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WYDave
Posted 10/26/2006 22:42 (#55546 - in reply to #55206)
Subject: Re: cost of hauling


Wyoming

Your Honor, that's not condescending, it's common sense.

Here, where our small bales are always picked up with a bale wagon, we dream of getting a hay press into the valley. If we had one of the modern hay presses that can re-package big bales, you'd see nearly every "small square" (3-string) baler sold or parked, and everyone would go to 4x4x8 big balers in a second, as soon as financial considerations would allow. One man with a 4x4 big baler can do the work of three people with 3-string balers in a night. The big balers can bale more hay, drier hay, into a more consistent package and they cost less to run than the three stringers in string, fuel and parts.

Why isn't there  a re-packing hay press here? Well, they cost about $500K+ to buy and more to set up, and then you need some labor to run them. But they'll cut hay out of a 4x4x8 bale and re-pack it into 100 or 50 lb compressed bales, all day long.

Even with 3-string balers, which can put up about 3 times the hay of a 14x18 baler per hour, we're short of enough pairs of buttocks to put into tractor seats.

And the set of buttocks in the balewagon seat needs to know their buttocks from "that particular warm rock", lest they wreck the machine.

 

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