T.N.T. and others....trac hoe

[ALLFARMER]

TNT was wondering how u made out with your
hay down? With 1000 acres down at once I
assume your using 3 balers?

I was lowbedding from High level to Grande
Prairie to Elk Point & Cold Lake area last week
and was very surprised at how much hay was
around and how many cattle farmers there still
are. Lots of Barley planted, up in the north, very
very fiew barley fields.

Does anyone on here keep a trac hoe around for
farm use? Won't be this year but maybe soon I
think we are going to buy our own. Would be good
for 1) pulling the cat out when stuck 2) digging
dugouts 3) trenching/draining land 4) loading
manure trucks 4) brush pile clean up.

I know a must for it will be a thumb for moving
logs and a chuck blade for trenching and loading
manure. We had a 200 Komatsu here for a
couple weeks and that seemed to be a big
enough machine and is easy on fuel.

If your a machinery hatter don't bother replying.

[per]

I aways wanted to mount a 7' mower on a knuckle to trim the caragana's. Also a set of sheers for cleaning up old iron bone yards. The sky is the limit as to the uses for a track hoe.

[T.N.T.]

We used our 3 balers and our v-rake,and i hired the neighbour to bring his v rake and there baler.When we were able to roll with 4 balers we were doing just over 80 acres a hour,and with that many balers we were able to back off on the speed and it wasn't so rough for the operators,and we were able to get it baled in the prime times of the day.Had 2 dairy guys take it all.The thing that really saved our ass was there was no rain in our area on wensday as predicted.

[ALLFARMER]

Ya definitely per sky's the limit. My son must have
put a hard lump of clay thru the diskbine last year
and the rollers were bent a bit. JD wanted like
2400$/roller so took them out put them on a
concrete floor and used the hoe bucket to
straighten them back. The rollers are not 100%
but 95% runs fine but you can still hear its out a
tiny bit.

Good to hear you got er all up TNT with all the
animals you have your selling hay! Buying hay
here but ya looks like the rest of the province has
lots.

[T.N.T.]

Were selling 2nd cut because we have killed more animals feeding that stuff then what it's worth.We had a deal all made out that we can get nice hay from the guy we hired to help us.We are getting 2 nice first cut bales in our yard,for every 2nd cut that leaves our yard.

[ALLFARMER]

Now that is a deal