Every homesteader’s goal is to be as self-sustaining as possible. In trying to reach that goal, many of us raise animals. It’s difficult to keep many animals without hay, and conventional thinking ...

Photo A: The author’s grandson, Austin, experiments with using the baler to form a bale. When you build your own wooden hay baler, you can hand bale hay without the need for equipment, so you can ...

With a typical 2.4m x 1.2m x 0.9m (8 x 4 x 3 foot) large square bale weighing about 500-600kg, depending on the material, high density is pushing that weight up to 700-800kg. But is ramming an extra ...

30 October 2020, Lower Saxony, Ronnenberg: Bales of straw, decorated with faces, lie at the edge of a field. Photo: Moritz Frankenberg/dpa (Photo by Moritz Frankenberg/picture alliance via Getty ...