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Re: [RC] hay prices in CA - heidiGuess you all have it delivered so you don't have to worry about unloading and restacking it in your barn? Those bales ARE HEAVY!!!!!!!! Alas, no. One reason I get such small lots (3-4 tons at a time) is because we DON'T have a good place to stack it (plenty of space, but no hay barn, and no elk-proof stackyard)--so I unload it right in the areas where I will feed it. That makes choretime a breeze, though, since there is no carrying or wheelbarrowing of hay anywhere--just frisbee the flakes over the fence as one goes along. So I have little "stacks" of 2 to 8 bales all over the place. We DO have a hay barn in the long-term plan here, but it is quite a ways down the priority list. If we bought bigger lots, our hay broker would come up with his Bobcat with its special bale squeeze and unload it--he loads my flatbed with that, and it only takes him about 10 minutes tops to put 3-4 tons on there... But we also can't get a semi up here--so we'd still have to ferry it up the driveway (nearly a mile) from a semi parked down by the highway if we did it that way. Heidi =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Ridecamp is a service of Endurance Net, http://www.endurance.net. Information, Policy, Disclaimer: http://www.endurance.net/Ridecamp Subscribe/Unsubscribe http://www.endurance.net/ridecamp/logon.asp Ride Long and Ride Safe!! =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=
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