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corbinstein 
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Posted: 28 Jun 2017 at 6:41am |
You know what would make a neat project? I'm thinking a tiny little Hay Baler for a lawn mower.....LOL
Wife keeps telling me front yard looks like a mowed hay field. I waited too long to cut it..LOL
Edited by corbinstein - 28 Jun 2017 at 6:42am
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CTuckerNWIL
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Posted: 28 Jun 2017 at 6:55am |
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I sometimes wish I had a small baler just for that reason. I have seen home made small square balers at tractor shows and guys sell the bales.
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jiminnd
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Posted: 28 Jun 2017 at 7:43am |
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I have seen videos of small walk behind round balers, maybe that would work?
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darrel in ND
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Posted: 28 Jun 2017 at 8:49am |
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You could sell them as those little ornamental bales that people pay big money for to decorate tables and such at festivities. Probably comes out to four or five thousand bucks a ton. LOL. Darrel
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kinghunter
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Posted: 28 Jun 2017 at 8:54am |
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There's company's that make tiny round balers. They put net wrap on them. Urghh I cant figure out video post.
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Roscoe62
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CrestonM
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Posted: 28 Jun 2017 at 9:08am |
Why not just combine your lawn? Get a good chopper on the back or straw spreader and it won't look like a mowed hay field! Lol
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Gerald J.
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Posted: 28 Jun 2017 at 9:08am |
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I pull a power rake from Menard's behind the mower on a separate pass to pick up the windrows. I dump it into a part of the garden that has not been growing even weeds well to compost it. The weeds are loving the new soil. The power rake uses a brush to pick up the grass clippings and is 42" like the deck on the zero turn mower. It came with a pin hitch that needed a leveling spacer. I have replaced that with a trailer hitch and hitch ball for faster hitching. Sometimes it takes as long to rake as it took to mow with about 1-1/2 acre of yard.
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JoeO(CMO)
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Posted: 28 Jun 2017 at 10:15am |
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Don(MO)
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Posted: 28 Jun 2017 at 10:52am |
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Don't laugh I did mow, rake and round bale the yard one time with the AC mower, rake round baler after it rained too much and could not get the grasshopper on it.
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shameless dude
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Posted: 28 Jun 2017 at 10:53am |
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that's like what they use to bale pine needles
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DiyDave
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Posted: 28 Jun 2017 at 7:17pm |
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Twill never catch on, no one wants to work that hard, anymore, and it ain't osha approved... 
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jaybmiller
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Posted: 29 Jun 2017 at 6:08am |
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Long time ago I saw on TV a farmer out west( Alberta ?) added a frame and a plastic tarp to his rider so the cut gass would shoot onto it. when full he drove over to 'compost area' and then backed up. All the clippings fell off, then back to cut&carry more grass.
It was a simple solution, real famer ingenuity ! Great for wide open lawns....
Maybe an option ??
I do 'ride&bag' my house lawns, toss into veggie compost area..pure nitrogen, great for the garden !
Jay
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