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SVcummins

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Some hay . Been working on this rat infested baler all day took a little break to mount my under bed tool box so I could have my truck cab back . Found one more worn out linkage on the second stop for the knotter drive was able to put a new bolt in and adjust the slop enough to make it work .
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I had under rack tool storage on a old flatbed one time, handy like a shirt pocket. Cubes are square, square bales are rectangles, lol, just don’t sound as good. There has been hay cubing plants, that have made hay cubes for the horse lovers. Kinda square feed pellet made from ground up hay.
 
Bruce .... to split hairs, squares are 2-dimensional, cubes are 3-dimensional. And most small hay bales are actually rectangular prisms. And don't forget, all squares are rectangles but only some rectangles are squares. My grade 8 math teacher Mr. Boyce drilled that into my head .... ha!
 
Thought you were talking about cubing cattle when grass played out. Thought it was a little early even for your altitude.
 
Hey, I almost forgot that, 19 years into retirement after 31 taming lions .... ha, just kidding, enjoyed almost every minute (liar, liar). The term "squares" you mentioned, I guess it would be geeks or nerds these days.
 
Tool box under the bed also gives a lot better bed space for your 4-footed side kick! I bet he likes his improved "bed" space. Good to see the yellow Dodge is still going.
 

The forum needs SVCummmins more than it needs some of those who want to criticize a self-explanatory comment. Even I immediately knew what it meant, particularly because he referenced a baler. No wonder so many good people just move on.
 
Cubes kinda fits for this area, I am about the only one making small square bales and several of my neighbors refer to me making idiot cubes when I bale, ha ha. I admit that there are days when I wish I was making 3 X 4 X 8 bales but one of the reasons I still do small bales is to get some seat time on some old tractors. Good big baler and 4wd loader tractor $ pretty hard to justify for my 100 tons a year.
 
the small cubes are known as pellets around here. but ya i knew what he was talking about. baling hay.
 
We’ll never run out of feed I understock just so that doesn’t happen because it’s only maybe every ten years or even more but it will get super dry and the cows get looking for feed
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I don’t mind doing a few little bales but it’s hard to find anyone to help pick them up and for the price of a stack wagon I can buy a decent round baler
 
There was a couple of those cubers for sale on KSL in Utah earlier this spring.. Listen to one of them screaming deamons all day long without ear plugs and you will be yelling "HUH?" the rest of your life...
 
I’ve ran an open air tractor since I could reach the pedals and after I redid the 4020 I ran a chrome straight pipe for about five years even with ear muffs I could still here that thing all night in bed . I love the sound a big baler makes kind of a whine while it’s working hard . I’ve seen a few d1000 balers for sale but none close
 
I was referring to the JD Cuber..

Dads 4230 platform with the M&W turbo on it has one of them chrome straight stacks... I say "Huh" alot anymore..
 
VAI ..... I suspect you're one of the good people that has stayed, am I correct with that assumption? Just kidding. Actually the personality categories on this forum are no different than they are anywhere I would say. There are some grumpy guys and lots of us (me included of course) at the other end of the spectrum.
 
We just call em round or square but I think I’m going to start calling them cubes more I see a lot of people say they made rolls so I can make cubes
 
Small rounds were in the midwest in the 50s and 60s when Allis Chalmers made a baler for them. My grandfather worked for Hart Parr and then John Deere here in Iowa. He used JD and Ford equipment here, but transitioned to AC when he bought a farm and moved to Missouri.
 
There is or was a hay cubing plant in or near Dillon, Montana that turned bales into cubes or pellets for export to Japan. I think the cubes were around 1" across. That is what I thought of when I read cubing hay. I think that plant may still be in production based on the hay I see going by on the highway and the times of the year I see the hay travelling.
 
There is one in Hamer Idaho.. about 1.5 hrs south of Dillon. I know the guys running it. In fact i've hauled hay into em and bought hay from them..

www.cubeithay.com
 
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