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hay equipment for CUT?

Erik

Erik

SelfBane
my Century 2535 is a 35 HP at the engine, 32 PTO HP, roughly 6,000 pound wee red beastie.
what (if any) size swather and small square baler can I use with this and not beat my kidneys and spine to jelly in the process? (saw a listing for a Hesston 1410 swather conditioner for $1500 today and it got me wondering)

I've got roughly 10.5 acres of pretty decent brome and I'm trying to figure out if it's worth doing it myself or just leasing the pasture and making fertilizer someone else's headache.

Thanks!
 
Since you're in the business, owning or working at ccmachinery, can you recommend any particular models for his particular tractor?
 
Yes I work in the industry but I also farm using farm equipment. When you start talking about using a compact tractor in the production of hay you do have some limitations. The mass of the tractor will limit you most. What I mean is you can not safely use a large disc mower on your tractor just because it has the HP to pull the implement.

There is some micro-equipment available for compacts which is primarily marketed under the Star marketing label, http://www.agriquip.com/ . It is made in Asia and is designed to be used on compact tractors. It is a bit pricey because the way it is marketed. The implements do work. The main implements they have some exclusivity are micro round balers and micro square balers. There are some micro equipment manufactures in Europe like Worlagri, http://www.wolagri.com/

One also has the option of purchasing scaled down equipment that will work with compact tractors. There are drum mowers, disc mowers and sicklebar mowers designed specifically for use on compact tractors. Some of those names are Tonutti, G&S, CCM, HayMAG, EnoRossi, Befco.

You can find some older US made sickle-bar mowers that will work on your compact tractor. New Holland, Ford, Massey, New Idea, Case/IH and John Deere.

Most of the current production of hay rakes and tedders will work behind the compact tractors. Wheel rakes, bar-rakes like a NH 256, even the smaller 3 point rotary rakes and tedders will work on compact tractors.

What we often see is the compact tractor owners use their own mowers, rakes and tedders and have their hay baled by custom operators. It is easy to get someone to come bale hay in the windrow. If you ask a custom operator or neighbor to put up you hay, the total process, you have asked them for a 3-4 day commitment. If you can mow & rake the hay yourself then you just are asking someone to invest the time required to bale the hay. Just remember everyone is in hay production at the same time because of the weather and people with hay equipment purchased it to usually to use first on their own hay production.
 
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Welcome to Forums Forums Hay Dr. Good info you've shared here. :a1: :tiphat:

Enjoy and post often. :thumb: :D
 
so what would you recommend for my roughly 5,000 pound (3600 dry weight + 1200 loader & subframe), 35 HP front wheel assist machine? new or used.
 
Erik said:
so what would you recommend for my roughly 5,000 pound (3600 dry weight + 1200 loader & subframe), 35 HP front wheel assist machine? new or used.
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  1. First what type of hay do you want to harvest and where are you located?
  2. What is your budget?
You do have some very good choices based on your tractor but the two questions above will narrow your selection down. You have some good choices or better choices to make. New and used equipment is available for you.
 
For whatever it is worth, I have purchased from CCM in the past and found them to be very helpful in determining my needs and then following up to get me the right tool for the job I needed done. It took a couple phone calls and a FAX or two, but I got what I needed.
 
Hay DR said:
  1. First what type of hay do you want to harvest and where are you located?
  2. What is your budget?
You do have some very good choices based on your tractor but the two questions above will narrow your selection down. You have some good choices or better choices to make. New and used equipment is available for you.
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Currently, budget is low - but I'm trying to get figures so I can save up for a year or 2 before buying. I've got 10.5 fairly flat acres of brome in NE Kansas. I'm also curious about sickle bar options for my rough pasture - flattening stuff near the pond, around stands of trees, etc... where offset cutting is a more safe option than a pull behind rotary cutter - but have been told I needed at least 40 PTO HP to run one of those, so hadn't been seriously looking.
 
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