neilw Posted October 11, 2011 Share Posted October 11, 2011 How popular are small rectangular bales?? Does anyone still produce/use them?? And does anyone know of a small square baler in 1/32 other than the Britains New Holland.....? TIA Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Deere-est Posted October 11, 2011 Share Posted October 11, 2011 Britains Bamford?! Piggeries, hill farms and equestrian holdings are probably the biggest users. The chaps I work for make 12,000 bales of hay to sell. All of this years is being delivered by me to west Wales. Why do you ask? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MF-ROB Posted October 11, 2011 Share Posted October 11, 2011 We still use them we make about 1500-2000 bales a year with our trusty old NH276 hayliner We also use round bales but we find that having a few small bales about the yard very handy for bedding small pens and beding small livestock and taking straw to cattle show as you need to bed you holding pen Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tractorman810 Posted October 11, 2011 Share Posted October 11, 2011 yeah pig farms and horsey places still use them, still see a good few getting done this way, we always used them on all 3 farms, midi and big bales were arround, but they are just to big for most pig units and just aint man handle movable like small ones, Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
powerrabbit Posted October 11, 2011 Share Posted October 11, 2011 Most of the Dartmoor farmers still use a lot of small conventional small bales, especially hay. Although there are a great majority that bale a lot of hay and silage in the big bale form in the winter months it is near impossible to get out onto the moor with a tractor, even a 4WD tractor with a big bale either on the back or on the loader due to the terrain so feeding small bales via a quad is the better option as you don't cut up the ground and the sheep and out-wintered cattle are not standing around a ring feeder making a mud bath, National Park people wouldn't allow it. When the weather is particularly bad, even the moorland ponies need a bit extra so small bales fill the requirement. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BC Posted October 11, 2011 Share Posted October 11, 2011 And does anyone know of a small square baler in 1/32 other than the Britains New Holland.....? TIA Britains / ERTL also did a John Deere 348 square baler Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
schw84 Posted October 11, 2011 Share Posted October 11, 2011 We have a NH945 we use to make as few bales as possible each year... No one likes stacking them, mini hesstons are alot better as you can use a teleporter... We use them in farrowing sheds thats it. Oh also silly horsey people pay a fortune for them... as well as people who want them for fates etc... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jdeere6910 Posted October 16, 2011 Share Posted October 16, 2011 A lot of farms round us bale small bale hay, mainly for horses and sheep, not many people bale straw with then any more however. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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