Root bales....sorta
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Topic: Root bales....sorta
Posted By: tony
Subject: Root bales....sorta
Date Posted: 27 Sep 2017 at 6:41pm
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Have a young lady that will be showing some of our cattle next year and so we need some small bales to take to shows. I only have a round baler's and wondered if I could make some Roto bale sized bales to fill this need. Set the baler to make as small a bale possible. Ended up with bales that are about 2-1/2' in diameter x 4' wide @ 150 lbs or so. Little bigger than I'd like so now I'm looking for a way to slice(crossways) them into smaller pieces. Anybody have any ideas? I was thinking maybe a machete? |
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Posted By: Bull
Date Posted: 27 Sep 2017 at 7:41pm
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You can rip a Roto bale with a chainsaw, I never tried to cross cut one. ------------- WD45 Diesel, RC,CA,IB, B, G, 616, Early B-10, D-10, Terra Tiger, 95G spreader, SC blade |
Posted By: LeonR2013
Date Posted: 27 Sep 2017 at 7:53pm
| Chopping ax. |
Posted By: jaybmiller
Date Posted: 27 Sep 2017 at 7:57pm
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maybe trade your round bales for someone else's small square bales ?? ------------- 3 D-14s,A-C forklift, B-112 Kubota BX23S lil' TOOT( The Other Orange Tractor) Never burn your bridges, unless you can walk on water |
Posted By: Michael V (NM)
Date Posted: 27 Sep 2017 at 8:39pm
| you can use a chain saw but It will dull the saw really fast,, two man cross cut will work also,, or any kind of log sawer type saw..I chopped up a big round bale for my granddad years ago for his sheep,,, dulled the chainsaw really fast |
Posted By: thendrix
Date Posted: 27 Sep 2017 at 8:52pm
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They make pine straw balers that make small rounds now. I think they're a little smaller then bales from a roto baler but about the same. If I remember right they're pretty pricey too but it is an option ------------- "Farming is a business that makes a Las Vegas craps table look like a regular paycheck" Ronald Reagan |
Posted By: Dakota Dave
Date Posted: 28 Sep 2017 at 6:34am
| Two guys with a piece of barbed wire can cut a bale nicely. Use a piec of broom stick on the ends for a handle and pull it through like a bow saw. I've done it to slice 5x6 bales into slices. I had tried a chain saw first but don't do it. Taking the chain saw apart to clean it out was a pain. |
Posted By: FloydKS
Date Posted: 28 Sep 2017 at 6:40am
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On the farm we had a "bale saw" or hay saw... however I never remember actually using it cause we did not need to make smaller portions...i just googled hay saw, and that is what it looked like. ------------- Holding a grudge is like taking poison and expecting the other person to die |
Posted By: Dennis J OPKs
Date Posted: 28 Sep 2017 at 6:58am
| Not that it would work for your situation, but back in the old days we used a hay knife to slice the roto bales down the middle to feed to dairy cattle. It's been a while but it worked quite well to feed the bales out in halves rather than whole ones. I don't remember what we did about the twine. |
Posted By: darrel in ND
Date Posted: 28 Sep 2017 at 7:51am
| Buy a Roto baler. Roll out the big rounds, and roll em up with the roto baler. Darrel |
Posted By: DougS
Date Posted: 28 Sep 2017 at 10:56am
| Oat straw or wheat straw? Horsemen generally use wheat straw because of its more golden color. FWIW you would probably have less of a headache if you just bought a few bales of the stuff. |
Posted By: JC-WI
Date Posted: 28 Sep 2017 at 11:33am
here is a hay knife. I have used one like it to cut round bales open on one side so they laid out and then carried the layers in by fork, or rolling a layer up and just dragged it in. All is work, easier to just buy a bunch of small Squares and be done with it. ------------- He who says there is no evil has already deceived himself The truth is the truth, sugar coated or not. Trawler II says, "Remember that." |
Posted By: CrestonM
Date Posted: 28 Sep 2017 at 11:43am
x2!
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darrel in ND wrote:Posted By: tadams(OH)
Date Posted: 28 Sep 2017 at 2:04pm
| Don't it say he has a roto baler? A hay knife like pictured above will do the job. |
Posted By: Ted J
Date Posted: 29 Sep 2017 at 7:34am
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No Tom, he states: "I only have a round baler's and wondered if I could make some Roto bale sized bales to fill this need." He has a round baler, but not a roto-baler. Tony, isn't there someone on your side of the state that has a roto-baler? You could trade or buy some bales off someone over there. ------------- "Allis-Express" 19?? WC / 1941 C / 1952 CA / 1956 WD45 / 1957 WD45 / 1958 D-17 |