It seems all options are a set of trade offs, with no one best solution......confirming what I already suspected, but was hoping somebody knew something I didn't. Technology, while possible, is also expensive to implement. If it isn't economically feasible, it won't fly. But when the alternative depends on hard to find, unreliable labor, that ain't good either.
Back in the good old days, even when there were 4 or 5 hay crews competing for business, if they showed up to find you had shotgunned the bales out the back and they were going to have to walk along picking bales up, you ran the risk of them refusing to do it and leaving.
So my lower jay nearly hit the ground two summers ago when the guy doing the adjacent land shotgunned about 2,000 square bales one day, then showed up with a pair of tractor trailer flatbeds, and about 6 Amish lads. Driver of the truck puts her in granny low, then with 3 on the ground, 3 stacking on the truck, they proceeded to load it up with about 800 to 1,000 bales, strapped it down and up the road they went.
Old school. Not much technology, but it worked. We have traveled a long way around to get back to where we started.
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