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"You can bale when your pasture is at its nutritional peak—not when the farmer down the road gets around to it." Do you operate a small farm? Do you own a little livestock and a few acres of hay pasture? Are you tired of waiting until the farmer down the road gets around to baling your hay—usually long after it has reached its nutritional peak? Then maybe it’s time for you to make the jump to haying independence. Fortunately, we at Tractor Tools Direct have developed …

Drum mowers, as a general category, are sturdy, low-maintenance machines designed for the compact tractors so popular on today’s small farms. Simple and durable, they are manufactured with fewer moving parts and cut faster and with fewer problems than other types of hay mowers. These mowers are designed with two large counter-rotating drums which are powered from above by a simple gearbox and fitted with 3 to 4 blades each. Their performance is unbeatable in the tough conditions of a hay …

When the Allis Chalmers Roto-Baler was first mass produced in 1947 it brought an innovative alternative to square baling of forage crops. While it produced a good bale it was a complicated machine with 2 sets of compression belts to form the bale. The machine was also quite large. The Ibex TX31 Mini Round Baler produces the same type of round “rolled” bales that have all the same advantages over square bales in a smaller, simpler machine. The TX31 occupies only a small fraction of t …

This blog serves as the final in a series answering the question, “Why buy your baler from us?”. The previous two blogs addressed this question by discussing Tractor Tools Direct’s obsession with quality and the unique features found on only our balers. This blog will give you a final reason why you should feel confident in a baler purchase from us--our commitment to customer service and support. Here at Tractor Tools Direct, we’ve built our business on 100% customer sat …

Last month we shared the first blog in a three part series answering the question, “Why buy your baler from us?”. That blog, which can be found here, discussed our obsession with quality. This month, we will give another reason why you should feel confident making a baler purchase from Tractor Tools Direct--we offer products with unique features not found on other brands. First off, our balers are not the same as others you may have seen. Yes, I know - when you first start researchi …