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FREEDGUY 
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Posted: 02 Oct 2020 at 5:34pm |
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What would be the use of SB round bales in a non-livestock area ?
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jaybmiller
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Posted: 02 Oct 2020 at 6:21pm |
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might make great fuel for a big 'whole house' stove ???
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Posted: 02 Oct 2020 at 6:29pm |
Jay, I thought about that but the only style of those burners are the stinky wood burning boiler set-ups "here"  . For a roughly 50 acre field, there are ALOT of 5' round bales 
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Posted: 02 Oct 2020 at 6:58pm |
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hmm. ok.. how about walls for 'alternative' houses ?? I've seen 'straw bale' houses on TV....
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Posted: 03 Oct 2020 at 7:35am |
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Before or after combining?
Before, still would have to be sold as feed. Added to a mixer / grinder/ processor with other ingredients for livestock feed.
After combining, bedding, mulch, any place you might use straw, even roadside where they cover the bare spots i suppose. I suppose fuel is a possibility but holy crap that would go up fast and hot!
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Posted: 03 Oct 2020 at 9:40am |
Its livestock bedding,some producers think its the best. To lots of truckers and producers whats a few hundred miles.
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Posted: 03 Oct 2020 at 5:53pm |
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Before or after combining?
Before, still would have to be sold as feed. Added to a mixer / grinder/ processor with other ingredients for livestock feed.
After combining, bedding, mulch, any place you might use straw, even roadside where they cover the bare spots i suppose. I suppose fuel is a possibility but holy crap that would go up fast and hot! |
These bales were rolled AFTER harvest. Again, there's NO livestock produced within 30 miles of this parcel 
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Posted: 03 Oct 2020 at 10:26pm |
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around here they grind it in with other stuff for cattle feed. high protein additive.
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Posted: 03 Oct 2020 at 10:47pm |
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Back in the 1960's when foxtail first moved in, dad had a field of beans taken over by foxtail. We small round baled beans/foxtail and fed them to stock cows. Everybody said it couldn't be done. Dad bought a new sprayer that winter. Dont know what to do with them without cows.
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Posted: 04 Oct 2020 at 7:40am |
30 miles?!?!?!?! Ever seen bales on a flat bed? All it takes is a buyer. 30 miles means nothing.
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Posted: 04 Oct 2020 at 7:58am |
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Several years ago they were bailing hay in Illinois and sending to South Dakota to feed cattle during a deep snow storm.
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Posted: 04 Oct 2020 at 8:25am |
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Our renter baled Soy crop on another place where once fed to the livestock they only ate small pieces leaving the bulk lay, softer leaves and pods they ate, stems got filtered out and left to rot. Determined NOT worth the effort.
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Posted: 04 Oct 2020 at 9:59am |
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Local here bales 20,000 4x8 straw bales every year most go the Iowa and Wisconsin. Some go all the way to the east coast. The places that buy them send there own trucks he loads them out of the shed all winter. If there is value shipping isn't he a problem
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Posted: 04 Oct 2020 at 10:04am |
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They do work better tub ground and mixed in a wet ration or finish ration for the scratch. I've fed just about anything but a ground tree mixed with WDG and sorghum silage they will do a better job cleaning it up, now ground or whole soy stubble by its self there would be a lot of waste, but in the field its all waste.
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Posted: 04 Oct 2020 at 11:56am |
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Very true, as to Straw here, the typical Wheat planted here is very short stalked, not much as to straw for recovery, most just burn down the stubble and replant over it. Landscapers been whining for years as to Straw availability and costs.
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Posted: 04 Oct 2020 at 7:18pm |
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Back in the 70s and 80s we used to sell hay to a few farms in MD and FL. They paid for it and sent tractor trailers to pick it up. Never understood why and never asked - was always told to never look a gift horse in the mouth. We were glad to get almost double per bale (small squares) from them over the best price we could get locally. It paid us to sell our hay and buy from neighbors.
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Posted: 05 Oct 2020 at 1:23am |
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it's really hard on the baler belts to bale it up. wears them out real fast.
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Posted: 05 Oct 2020 at 5:35am |
Ok, dumb idea... why not stop at the farm that has the bales and ask them ?
heck, while getting gas the other day I asked the 'semi delivery guy' about his towed car. He drives new semi to buyers, uses car to get home.Asked if auto or std. He said std and getting harder to find as most new cars are all automatics. Then asked , Ok, what mods to automatics. he said just an extra tranny oil cooler, keeps them from handgrenading.
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Posted: 05 Oct 2020 at 7:05am |
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Corn Stalks,Peanut Vines and Soybean Stems are all death to a Round Baler. Think of all the dirt going into the baler! Not to mention what the stems and stalks do to the belts. In 2012 I custom baled CRP land for hay because of the drought. I said never again as it took years off of my baler running over rough ground and the material baled. I traded balers in 2014!
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Posted: 05 Oct 2020 at 8:09am |
FREEDGUY wrote:
What would be the use of SB round bales in a non-livestock area ? |
Why do you ask? Do you have some that you don't know what to do with them?
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Posted: 05 Oct 2020 at 7:08pm |
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30 miles?!?!?!?!
Ever seen bales on a flat bed? All it takes is a buyer. 30 miles means nothing. |
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Posted: 05 Oct 2020 at 7:19pm |
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With the dry weather in parts of the country hay is short and expensive. They can be used in cattle rations If ground as filler to stretch hay supply and keep the gut working. Trucking is a non issue. 55000 lbs loads no problem. They will be a lot cheaper than alfalfa so you can afford some freight. I've baled them. No issues.
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Posted: 05 Oct 2020 at 7:23pm |
Thanks cale, there's cornstalks baled in this area but this is the first I've seen soy fodder wrapped up, I just couldn't imagine any feed value from a soybean stalk  .
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Posted: 06 Oct 2020 at 7:29am |
You a combative drunk tonight or what? You ask this question. I said it was either feed or used as straw would be used such as bedding or any other use for straw. But yet you're amazed that it's 30 MILES from any livestock. Myself and many others pointed out that hay, straw, whatever gets trucked all over the country, so 30 miles means nothing. Maybe they're going to power a rocket ship to Mars with it instead or some other amazing exotic use? Oh please stop in ask and tell us! Your first step is admitting you have a problem.
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