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tony 
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Posted: 27 Sep 2017 at 6:41pm |
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Have a young lady that will be showing some of our cattle next year and so we need some small bales to take to shows. I only have a round baler's and wondered if I could make some Roto bale sized bales to fill this need.
Set the baler to make as small a bale possible. Ended up with bales that are about 2-1/2' in diameter x 4' wide @ 150 lbs or so. Little bigger than I'd like so now I'm looking for a way to slice(crossways) them into smaller pieces. Anybody have any ideas? I was thinking maybe a machete?
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Posted: 27 Sep 2017 at 7:41pm |
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You can rip a Roto bale with a chainsaw, I never tried to cross cut one.
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Posted: 27 Sep 2017 at 7:53pm |
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jaybmiller
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Posted: 27 Sep 2017 at 7:57pm |
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maybe trade your round bales for someone else's small square bales ??
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Michael V (NM)
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Posted: 27 Sep 2017 at 8:39pm |
you can use a chain saw but It will dull the saw really fast,, two man cross cut will work also,, or any kind of log sawer type saw.. I chopped up a big round bale for my granddad years ago for his sheep,,, dulled the chainsaw really fast
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Posted: 27 Sep 2017 at 8:52pm |
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They make pine straw balers that make small rounds now. I think they're a little smaller then bales from a roto baler but about the same. If I remember right they're pretty pricey too but it is an option
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Dakota Dave
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Posted: 28 Sep 2017 at 6:34am |
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Two guys with a piece of barbed wire can cut a bale nicely. Use a piec of broom stick on the ends for a handle and pull it through like a bow saw. I've done it to slice 5x6 bales into slices. I had tried a chain saw first but don't do it. Taking the chain saw apart to clean it out was a pain.
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Posted: 28 Sep 2017 at 6:40am |
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On the farm we had a "bale saw" or hay saw... however I never remember actually using it cause we did not need to make smaller portions...i just googled hay saw, and that is what it looked like.
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Dennis J OPKs
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Posted: 28 Sep 2017 at 6:58am |
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Not that it would work for your situation, but back in the old days we used a hay knife to slice the roto bales down the middle to feed to dairy cattle. It's been a while but it worked quite well to feed the bales out in halves rather than whole ones. I don't remember what we did about the twine.
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darrel in ND
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Posted: 28 Sep 2017 at 7:51am |
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Buy a Roto baler. Roll out the big rounds, and roll em up with the roto baler. Darrel
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DougS
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Posted: 28 Sep 2017 at 10:56am |
Oat straw or wheat straw? Horsemen generally use wheat straw because of its more golden color. FWIW you would probably have less of a headache if you just bought a few bales of the stuff.
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Posted: 28 Sep 2017 at 11:33am |
here is a hay knife.  I have used one like it to cut round bales open on one side so they laid out and then carried the layers in by fork, or rolling a layer up and just dragged it in. All is work, easier to just buy a bunch of small Squares and be done with it.
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Posted: 28 Sep 2017 at 11:43am |
 darrel in ND wrote:
Buy a Roto baler. Roll out the big rounds, and roll em up with the roto baler. Darrel |
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tadams(OH)
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Posted: 28 Sep 2017 at 2:04pm |
Don't it say he has a roto baler? A hay knife like pictured above will do the job.
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Ted J
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Posted: 29 Sep 2017 at 7:34am |
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No Tom, he states:
"I only have a round baler's and wondered if I could make some Roto bale sized bales to fill this need."
He has a round baler, but not a roto-baler.
Tony, isn't there someone on your side of the state that has a roto-baler? You could trade or buy some bales off someone over there.
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