Only roto baler operators will understand

So, have you ever just been minding your own business, toward the end of june, with all your first cutting tucked safely in the barn when someone asks you for a favor to make 5 acres of hay for some old ladies sheep. And they promise you the field is really close and the hay was made last year or maybe the year before. And you drive the 10 miles up and down hills to get there(wow, i thought it was closer) and you look at the field full of broadleaf weeds and you know you should just turn and run. But for some reason you still don't understand, you agree to do it . And it takes you four hours to mow 5 acres because the field is full of ground hog holes. And so you tend it and rake it and its 4 pm and you have to milk but because it such nice drying weather you figure it can wait an extra day. But in spite of the low humidity, jt gets wet underneath overnight and now , if you flip those perfect windrows over, they will get too narrow and WE ALL KNOW HOW ROTO BALERS HATE NARROW WINDOWS. Plus the rake is going twist those corners into knots that will plug. And its not the great drying day like the weatherman forcasted, and you know those weeds are never going to get dry enough. But you struggle and get all baled. And the old lady comes out and says she doesn't want it only the second cutting and she has someone else to do that, he just didn't want the mess of first cutting

That is why I only make hay for myself,but years ago my dad and I went all over the area making hay and baling with a Roto Baler for other people

Hopefully, somewhere-somehow there will be a payback for your futile effort & wasted time.  Those are hours you'll never get back but you learned at least one thing and that came from trying to be the good guy.

GOT a match???

Sorry about your luck.  Take heart, there is a special place in heaven for guys that are rewarded such as you were.  A bushhog is too good for a field like that.

No good deed goes unpunished!!!

I too grew up around round bales.  The next door neighbor ( 1/4 mile away), partnered with Dad putting up alfalfa hay. I remember cutting, raking, baling, and hauling the bales. Dad would build a stack at the feed rack, making and stacking 2 rows for the outside perimeter and dumping the bales off the grain elevator into the middle, pulling more bales to the outside double rows to contain the loose bales. They always seemed to shed the rain and snow fairly well and were close to the feed rack for feeding.

I was born in 66. My dad and uncle farmed together, dairy, cattle hogs, corn, soybeans and wheat. Lots of alfalfa, fescue hay and straw all baled with a D-17 and roto baler. I know we baled 15k bales a year until 85 when dad and my uncle went separate ways. We had a 13 x 8 trailer, 3 wide 3 layers 2 wide 2 layers and a single row across top. 103 bales if I remember correctly. That ol baler brings back some good memories.
Leon B Mo

I've been watching for a nice Roto-baler. Have been interested for years, now a buddy from the Meadow Green persuasion has shown interest. He has lots of acres of hay ground and a big building to store such things in. Maybe one of these days there will be Roto-baling video on  my channel? Once the 78 rake is 'done' it will likely go there for 'testing'.