If a 412 won't work in a yard a tractor and loader won't
A tractor and loader will pull a bale trailer . With a loading shovel/teleporter handling bales you will still need a tractor to pull the trailer , and a driver on each . I cant see that much money in drawing bales . Can you ?
It seems to me that the whole baled silage game would be enough to drive a man mad .
10 years ago you mowed 10 acres of grass for a man . left it 2 days in the row . Baled it then , and then the owner drew them himself. It yielded 12 bales to the acre .
Now , you still have an odd lad like that . But you also have the dairy farmer , who has a couple of paddocks getting " Strong ". 6 inches high. It has to be mowed , tedded , and the raked . Baled and wrapped , and then he wants it drawn and stacked . You could employ a football team at the job .
Lad does mine had 31 bales off 14 acres for one of these lads 3 weeks ago . No wonder he is in bad humuor a lot of the time .
he gave up doing pit silage 22 years ago due to the hassle of it . At least then he knew he had 20 acres to do for Pat the end of May . 40 for John 10th of June . 30 for Mick whenever you get to it . Plus the other lads who fitted in between .
Now he has a lot of similar lads . PLUS not a day goes by but a couple of lads ring with 3 or 4 acres they mowed with their own disc mower , needs to be raked etc.
The definition of stress , in my opinion .
Back to the 10 ft rows , and let them like it or lump it .