Re: Baler questions

Posted by Leroy on July 12, 2019 at 07:58:11 from (96.45.243.241):

In Reply to: Baler questions posted by Grandpa love on July 11, 2019 at 15:37:46:

You need to think a bit different than others are saying. She has the ground and feed for her horses but it is not where she can get it fed to the horses that need it. So where they are thinking amount and quality of hay only comes into factoring number of bales produced, quality means nothing to you. Do you think she is stable enough that the work would be there for not only the rest of this year but for several years in the future. If you can be assured of having the work if you get the extra machinery you can afford to put more money out now than if it might not be there next year. Some are assuming you would be getting the hay that you don't need but that she does need. Value of hay does not figure into this. And neither does if it needs fertilizer, Only thing on the fertilizer would be if she asked you to apply it and you would have to by an applicator, then if it would get enough use to pencile out same as your post hole digger. Your labor and tractor time would be close to equal the mowing time for raking or fertilizer application, baling would take about double the time. You say you have found an affordable rake so you must be thinking the job could last for a few years, no rake could be affordable for just this year. Now on the baler it would come down to condition and could you do the repairs? Then are the parts needed avaible? You would be just trading tractor time from one job to a different one so cost to you would be same for that. So it comes down to the baler if you would get that one or a different one. You should already have the liability insurance for your other work, so no more cost there. I don't know if they would be taxing the baler or not, some states would others not. So could be a factor. Now she is paying property tax on the field she is getting no return on so geting a return off the grouund should want to help her decide to pay you more for the rest of the harvesting. Than if she was already getting a return off the ground instead of just costing money. So it is just down to condition of this or any other baler and can you make enough to cover the extra baler expence. And the ones pushing the newer higher capacity balers would have the bales being bigger to get that extra capacity so she might not be able to handle them to feed them so smaller bales the better. I don't have any ideas about yeld down there so just pulling these figures out of the air. If you get 50 bales per acre and charge $.50 per bale for just bailing that is $25 per acre income for one acre times 3 acres is $75 for one year for first cutting. Second cutting figure 40 bales $60 and third cutting 30 bales is $45 so for year that would be $180 dollars income less your cost of twine. Per year. So if you could be assured of work for 3 years you would have more income than cost of baler and twine and still have the machine. I don't know that particular baler to estimate what it would cost to keep going but if you would have to sell it for scrap you would not be out much if any depending on how much use you get out of it. And one of posters questioned on it being stored not your problem. Just get your normal hourly labor charge for getting it from field to storage, if she wants that. Same labor and tractor expence if just mowing or baling. So it is condition of baler and if short time or long time work. I myself quit making hay in 1980.

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