Small baler?

I know they make sickle bar mowers and ground driven rakes but do they make a small bailer for cubs?

[J-Mech]

Nope.

Although, there is a member here that made a lawn sweeper look like an IH round baler. It was pretty cool.

[olds45512]

i have one and it does a great job making small bales for my rabbit farm. sorry i couldn't resist.

[bocephus1991]

They make a small round baler that's self propelled. It's not for Cubs. I've seen videos of one.

Cool. I just have 3 acres of hay for my little bit of animals and don't need full size baler

[cubby]

There are company that make mini balers if you Google it. Think there made in eroupe

[DoubleO7]

Originally Posted by Young Cub

Cool. I just have 3 acres of hay for my little bit of animals and don't need full size baler

Build a manual hay baler.

[ol'George]

Originally Posted by Young Cub

Cool. I just have 3 acres of hay for my little bit of animals and don't need full size baler

In my part of the country 3 acres will produce plenty of hay to support an old square baler,I sure as hell would not want to put up something smaller than a regular square bale off 3 acres.
An acre will yield 130+ bales first cutting, somewhat less 2nd and 3rd.
You better have a barn to put it up in and a couple of guys operating the baling.
I was never good @ driving the tractor and stacking the hay on the wagon @ the same time.
Then there is the re stacking it in the mow on hot summer days.
You will rethink your haying idea after the first year.
About all the cub will do is bring the little woman out with drinking water,
as you don't bale hay on cool cloudy days.
I still have an old IH 45 baler but it has not been used in 2 years.
The Hernia stopped me, but maybe this year, as I have got it repaired.
You might think about working out a deal with a neighbor farmer who has a mower/conditioner, rake and baler and availability of a little help, that don't mind hard sweaty work.
Mc Donald employees need not apply, they get paid too much and want to many breaks, BTDT

[J-Mech]

So true George.... SO TRUE!

We have a local Children's Home. Troubled kids go there instead of jail... some are there because their parents are in jail and they have nowhere to go. Some are there because their parents don't know what else to do with them. Most are good kids once they get into the rural area and start attending church. (It's funded by churches, no state help at all.)

Funny story:
Several of the boys there are from the city. They come down here and sometimes play sports, some are pretty good. My granddad was President of the board at the Children's home and one year we went to put up hay and called and asked if they boys wanted to make some money. "THEY SURE DO!", was the reply. So out they came. Big bulky football boys, and some not so bulky. None had ever put up hay. I always stack. That's my job. We don't want to stack it twice, so someone who knows how always does. So, there we are about an hour into it, and the boys start asking for a break. So, we stop and get some water, then go on. 30 min later, they wanted a break.... more water. We unload the first set of wagons and start to head back... "We have to go back out?!?!?!" they hollered. "Well.... yeah. Can't leave all that hay out there. Might rain." we told them. This goes on for a little longer.... we didn't get the second load on and we really had to start pushing those boys. Granddad at one point told one of the big kids that he shouldn't be complaining.... after all, he was only handling about 1/4 of the bales. "How do you figure?" kid asked. "Well, see," granddad said, "That guy up there stacking has to handle them all. Every bale that goes up, get's stacked," he said pointing at me. "How tired does he look?"... Kids just stare. LOL. It was a long day. At the end, the same big kid came up to me and granddad and said "I will never think that you guys are wimps or that I could ever "take" you. I worked all day and I'm so tired I can't hardly walk. Yet, you both are still going. Are you even tired?" We told him we were, but there was still chores to do and we had more to bale tomorrow. "TOMORROW?!?!?!" he yelled. Half of them didn't show the second day, LOL.

[john hall]

Jmech and George, can't disagree with anything you guys posted. I will add that if you want to silence "boys" from complaining, get a pretty girl involved. I had a lady buy about 150 bales last year on about the most humid day you could imagine. She was toting bales out of the barn just as fast as everyone else, wearing shorts, and probably weighed 105 lbs. I didn't hear a peep out of my 13 year old. I was about to pass out on the other hand since I was stacking and had 3 feeding me.