lastcowboy32
Well-known Member
From all of the posts here about fixing our baler, you'd think that we don't have any hay....but we do. We already have probably more than enough first cut and bedding for our animals.
We still have a couple thousand bales of first cut standing on the land that we rent. So, we've been selling some out of the field. It's quite a bit of labor to get hay into our loft and then back out again. So, we are giving people a very good price, if they can take hay out of the field.
Thing is...most people that are buying hay that way are weekend warriors with day jobs. I have quite a few that I've made contact with that are interested in hay...but it's commonly...
"Will you have any hay ready this Saturday morning between 9AM and 11AM? That's the only time that I can ....(insert something here like..."get a trailer" "get off from work" "get help to load"..."borrow a truck"???
Which I understand completely...but Mother Nature...she isn't accommodating. She dictates when to bale and when to wait.
So, I've started a system where we put down a pad of bedding hay bales and then stack good first cutting hay on top. We can get a few hundred bales stacked on a modest pad and tarp the whole shebang...
It's much faster for us to stack the hay this way when we're baling...no running up the ramp into the barn... It's also much easier to load for "customers"... no setting up elevators to get hay out of the loft...
Thing is, a standard tarp doesn't let out the water vapor from the still-curing hay.
I'm researching specialized tarps that claim to "breathe". Does anybody have experience to share on this subject?
Thanks
We still have a couple thousand bales of first cut standing on the land that we rent. So, we've been selling some out of the field. It's quite a bit of labor to get hay into our loft and then back out again. So, we are giving people a very good price, if they can take hay out of the field.
Thing is...most people that are buying hay that way are weekend warriors with day jobs. I have quite a few that I've made contact with that are interested in hay...but it's commonly...
"Will you have any hay ready this Saturday morning between 9AM and 11AM? That's the only time that I can ....(insert something here like..."get a trailer" "get off from work" "get help to load"..."borrow a truck"???
Which I understand completely...but Mother Nature...she isn't accommodating. She dictates when to bale and when to wait.
So, I've started a system where we put down a pad of bedding hay bales and then stack good first cutting hay on top. We can get a few hundred bales stacked on a modest pad and tarp the whole shebang...
It's much faster for us to stack the hay this way when we're baling...no running up the ramp into the barn... It's also much easier to load for "customers"... no setting up elevators to get hay out of the loft...
Thing is, a standard tarp doesn't let out the water vapor from the still-curing hay.
I'm researching specialized tarps that claim to "breathe". Does anybody have experience to share on this subject?
Thanks