A lot of people on the production side see it that way. Now, think of the receiver. Very few places across the country have squeezes. They do not exist east of AZ. Most places cannot handle lose bales. They may have a grapple. But chances are, it won’t go 14+ feet high. By putting them in bundles on our end, they don’t need a squeeze or a grapple, and they don’t need to go 14+ feed high. They only need spikes and 12 foot high. This allows so many more people, potentially hundreds, to purchase or product. So yes, it’s not fixing a problem for the producer, the problem is for the receiver.
@@troyb6128 100%. And you are right about there not being a problem. It’s more of a pain for us. More work. More steps. More problems. But it opens the market for us.
Mark this day down..... We actually saw Trevor Bales do manual labor..... It had to happen sooner than later! Sorry Trevor...a bit of humor at your expense!
We’re definitely not reinventing a wheel. This isn’t for the producer. This is more steps, longer process, and more opportunities for things to fail. This is 100% for the customer, or receiver. There are no squeezes east of AZ. Most Feedstores and private customers cannot unload loose bales, like we stack. These bundles make it easy and efficient for the person at the other end of
Yes, you are 100% right. But this machine isn’t for this end of the operation. It’s for the customers that can’t unload stacks of hay, but they can unload bundles.
@@BalesHayFarmandRanch I just never had to deal with van trailers so I always forget about that customer base. Enjoy the videos and looking forward to more baling videos with Brian.
Have considered restacking into those “short stacks” at the barn for those special orders? That way you don’t invest for equipment or convert substantial acreage into this sort of system. Just restack as needed.
Do you think you might try demoing a bale baron, out of of own use they are the one that seems more popuar with resellers and contractors here in the UK if they don't bale a round or big square to rebale though with lucerne/alfalfa that to me would seem to be the quickest way to end up with stalks
@@BalesHayFarmandRanch you'll have to channel your inner Farming Fixing amd Fabrication and design your own system. Do Arcusin make a version using a tougher string?
@@BalesHayFarmandRanch I was thinking the the higher rated ones like for the ultra high density balers. Or there is the heavy wall round pipe on the squeezes like the wool merchants have on their squeezes for handling their wrapped bales of sheep's wool.
You should look at the Bale Baron. It produces a 21 bale bundles which I believe are the same size as a large square bales and they stack better into Van's.Take a look at this video, this farm switched from Arcusin to Bale Baron's. The Bale Baron comes in 3 formats, can be pulled by the baler, pulled by a tractor or self propelled. ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-Yx7otGQBDlg.html Just a thought, I have not used either.
Love what you guys do! Just wondering what is the weight of your small three string bales? Here in Michigan, most of us are still two string at average 50 lbs.
In 2014 I had a blast running a Stinger, just barely slowed down to pick up the bale (pushed a little while grabbing) and sailed along to get the next bale while loading the one just picked up, wish I could run another one BUT, too old now.
Trevor, I know you talk about water a bunch & how your farm fits into your local water situation, but be heard a bunch recently about foreign governments achieving national security goals through buying farms/ag products, like importing hay and growing animals and commodities in other countries that have water and shipping it to their economic base. How do you feel about this personally, as a guy who is sorta at a catch 22 where you have to sell hay to whoever but you’d like to sell it only to local neighbors who will use it to boost our economy?
My thoughts are pretty simple actually. If America can go to other countries and use cheap labor, and minimal to no labor laws, and deplete natural resources for phones, batteries, cars, TV… not to mention giving away and selling our private information, and inventions. Then what is the difference or big deal? I think the saying is we can’t have our cake and eat it too. However, the export market is extremely good for our hay market, they are very good for our economy. They buy and use all things local. They are extremely efficient as well.
@@BalesHayFarmandRanch I agree, it’s complicated but overall whoever will buy the hay is welcome to it. I’m in northern Utah and a lot of the farmers here ship hay to the press for it to go overseas and I think if it can be bought and used locally that’s great but we can grow so so much hay for so cheap… the question of how to better use the land and water if the farmers don’t keep farming hasn’t been answered. I was curious to hear your thoughts, thanks for replying g