Growing hay is small quantities

With a homade manual baler..on another tack I sold enough bell peppers(a bakers doz.) to pay for two grass bales here this year...used the money though to buy some tasty smoked ham..

If you harvest with a scythe, you could try bailing it with a pine straw box bailer (after drying of course) . Tried to get a link but sending this from my phone so couldnt paste it, but if you do a google search there are plans on the net.

They show them used on U Tubes. Type in Home made hay bailers.

Thanks so much everyone! This has given me a lot of ideas.

Might try sprouting it. Raising two hogs on sprouted barley. About 50 square feet and some home depot tubs. Not promoting, just suggesting....Joe

Is the barley free?

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i went to the woods because i wished to live deliberately to front only the essential facts of life,.......,and not,when i came to die,discover that i had not lived...Henry David Thoreau

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i went to the woods because i wished to live deliberately to front only the essential facts of life,.......,and not,when i came to die,discover that i had not lived...Henry David Thoreau

you can cram it in cabbage sacks and hang from rafters too....just a idea.

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I did 250 bales this year with a pine straw baler - Just broke the first one open this morning - Man, it sure makes good hay. It smelled as fresh as when I baled it. The bales are only about 40 lbs tho, They're tight and easy to handle, stack well, and keep well. It takes a while to learn to get a good bale, I use different size compression blocks to get the best pack.
My baler was made by Barnes welding shop in Florida, I had it delivered to Okla. at a total price including delivery $302.00 about 6 years ago. I have made about 1,200 or 1,300 bales since then that I didn't have to buy. I figured a close estimate of .08 to .10 cents per bale as my actual cost, not counting my labor.
In the process I found out that I like doing that kind of work. I made my own hand hay rakes and am working on a wood 3 prong fork.

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Have some fun with it ...
EDIT : 7 mins. to bail 2 .This may need to wait until your retirement

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