Hay baling with a cub....?!

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bambooturtle

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1949 Cub here, can hay baling be done with it?! I am sure it can drag a rake but what are my options for making small bales. I have a 2 acre pasture I would like to cut and bale next year for my small herd. I would ask the community for your opinions and/or options on equipment. Struggling to find anything used or otherwise that would be appropriate. Would prefer to use a side rake and a mini baler but modern ones are out of the question as I do not think she has got the horse power. Am I asking too much from the old girl? Thanks for any advice.
 
As mentioned, cutting and raking, absolutely.

For baling, you want an IH 50T baler. It is self-powered by the same C60 engine that your Cub has. I think people want something a bit bigger, like a Super A, to pull it, though.
 
made hay for years, rake, cut ok, baler is to heavy for a cub, will break it and maybe get hurt, even a tractor 2-3 times as heavy slows it down when the bale gets tied and shoved out, minimum of 30-35 hp needed to start with
 
I agree with most of what has been said. Have run a Case baler with a Wisconsin engine. Way too much tongue weight for a Cub. I would even hesitate to pull a fully loaded wagon of hay with one. Mowing and raking. OK but. A cub mower is four or five foot with four foot most common. The older side delivery rakes were made for a seven foot cut. You could rake two swaths into one easily, we used to do that often with either a second or third cutting. Is your hayfield level or hilly? I have raked with an A and It worked out well. (Mowing was done with an H) I have pulled a fully loaded wagon with an A on level ground but on hilly ground a larger tractor would be freed up. Downhill with a lot of weight behind a cub I would call dangerous. We never dropped the bales but loaded them by hand. We could pull PTO baler (JD14T) and wagon even on ground with some hills using an H. Made it bark a bit. That H however had oversize sleeves and domed pistons. I'm sure an H could do it. Use the cub all you can but this job calls for more power and weight up front. I'm sure you will come to this conclusion. Stay safe. Vern
 
Aint gonna happen!!---a wc allis on a 50t would break the drawbar off!!! ( dont ask) -- wc would struggle to pull the baler and wagon in hills-- did fair on flat ground so min. sized ih tractor would be 460 with a pto baler of any brand. sa would be out cause they not heavy built enough plus not enough power.
 
There are mini round balers for compact tractors. But they run off a 540 rpm pto. If you really wanted to, you could convert it to being powered by its own gas engine. The Amish have done this to lots of full-size balers, to pull behind a team of horses. So it seems possible, in theory.
 
pauln said:
There are mini round balers for compact tractors. But they run off a 540 rpm pto. If you really wanted to, you could convert it to being powered by its own gas engine. The Amish have done this to lots of full-size balers, to pull behind a team of horses. So it seems possible, in theory.
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The Amish use a forecart with an engine on it. Now you are adding more weight to pull. Vern
 
There are some mini balers built with engine power. I don't know how common they are, or if a used one could be found. It will take a lot of hay to recover the cost of a new one. For 2 acres, the practical solution is to hire out the baling operation.
 
I cut hay with my cub and rake it up with a mule drawn rake converted to pulling with my cub. Hoping one day to get a side delivery rake for the cub. I put the hay up loose. Would like to have a baler but not likely that will happen. I don’t use a lot of hay and putting it up by hand is labor intensive. I’ve thought of getting a stationary baler but that’s pretty slow. I cut about 1 1/2 acres
 
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