I have about 210 acres now on 8 fields in a 10 mile radius and it takes many, many consecutive 18 hour days to get the fields baled-up. Darn near the whole month of June and maybe another week into May or July.
Presently, I have 700 850lb 4x5's done and still have one field to go with maybe another 75 on first cut!
Then it'll have to be done again in late August.
I'm estimating the bale total at 1300 based on last years total. 1100 will be mushroom hay and 200 for cows/horses.
I'm doing this almost all by myself-shipping too. I only feed like 20 bales, so it all has to be loaded and trucked by me. Takes a lot of logistics to move equipment from field to field.
Is it time to make the leap into a 3x4? Since I'm mostly self-taught, I have observed that all the medium and big guys do 3x4's in my area. My thought was to keep the 4x5 RB for the better hay and the rest would be 3x4 big bales. 3x4's also bring 10% more $ per ton.
I feel like the round baler is slowing me down.....3x4 would get me done faster.
Only other thing I can think of if a 4x6 RB, but I don't know if that would only be a minor improvement in saving time. Then there's also to load height issue with shipping 2x stacked 4x6's....
I'm staying a 1-man op, so hiring help is not an option I can utilize.
Thoughts?
Round baler limits
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