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Ripley, Ontario Canada | Not sure what you have for tractors, harvesters like hp, but if you have 150 pto hp available, a good used NH 892/900 chopper will be less than 10 000 even with a pickup and corn head, a hydump about 2-5000 and 1 truck or dump box behind a tractor.
Wrapping hay isn't cheap either, and takes a lot of life out of a baler. You need a good loader (or 2 or 3 if you are trying to do 40-50 acres at once) and a fleet of good wagons. Once you bale it you gotta keep going til it's wrapped. Takes a lot of time and equipment. If you are only trying to do 10-15 acres a year, wrapping is better because of the storage loss from the pit, but bigger acres pit is better/faster.
In field operations if you wrap you bale, load then haul. When you chop you load as you chop saving 1 operation. When you dump the chopped feed it is 1 pick per load (raise the hoist) not 15+ depending on how many bales per wagon. If you don't have the wrapper there, you have to pick each bale again to feed the wrapper, where the pit is always there, ready to go, just push in and keep going. | |
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Chopping Alfalfa
