{"id":25452,"date":"2026-11-03T13:47:18","date_gmt":"2026-11-03T13:47:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifevibesever.com\/?p=25452"},"modified":"2026-11-03T13:47:18","modified_gmt":"2026-11-03T13:47:18","slug":"the-baler-my-cousin-wanted-to-scrap","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifevibesever.com\/?p=25452","title":{"rendered":"The Baler My Cousin Wanted to Scrap"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>My Cousin Wanted to Scrap Grandpa\u2019s Baler for $300\u2014We Used It to Sell $18,000 Worth of Hay<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u201cNobody bales small squares anymore,\u201d Brock laughed, ready to scrap Grandpa\u2019s old New Holland baler.<\/p>\n<p>So I bought it for $300.<\/p>\n<p>Working at a vet clinic, I knew horse owners desperately needed small bales they could lift themselves. With a retired mechanic\u2019s help, my two boys and I repaired the machine and got to work.<\/p>\n<p>That summer, we sold 2,000 bales at $9 each\u2014$18,000 before expenses.<\/p>\n<p>But the best moment was bringing our 88-year-old grandpa to hear his baler running again. He closed his eyes, held my arm, and hummed the tune he\u2019d sung while farming.<\/p>\n<p>Brock eventually apologized and started sending customers our way.<\/p>\n<p>The following spring, he returned with a question:<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u201cJana\u2026 could I borrow Grandpa\u2019s baler?\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My Cousin Wanted to Scrap Grandpa\u2019s Baler for $300\u2014We Used It to Sell $18,000 Worth of Hay \u201cNobody bales small squares anymore,\u201d Brock laughed, ready to scrap Grandpa\u2019s old New Holland baler. So I bought it for $300. Working at a vet clinic, I knew horse owners desperately needed small bales they could lift themselves. &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":25453,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25452","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifevibesever.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25452","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifevibesever.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifevibesever.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifevibesever.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifevibesever.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=25452"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lifevibesever.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25452\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25454,"href":"https:\/\/lifevibesever.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25452\/revisions\/25454"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifevibesever.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/25453"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifevibesever.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=25452"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifevibesever.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=25452"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifevibesever.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=25452"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}