Wish me luck to finish hay
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Topic: Wish me luck to finish hay
Posted By: captaindana
Subject: Wish me luck to finish hay
Date Posted: 23 Jun 2012 at 4:17am
today. Well to fini first cutting. I hope the showers hold off and the counter strikes 5500.  And then I can get to fixin that oj lawn ornament! |
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Posted By: scott
Date Posted: 23 Jun 2012 at 5:57am
| Good Luck! What do you do with all the hay? |
Posted By: CTuckerNWIL
Date Posted: 23 Jun 2012 at 6:22am
LUCK,Nice picture Cap'n. That 190 makes all the others look like garden tractors. Scott, I was thinkin maybe his plane is hayburner
------------- http://www.ae-ta.com" rel="nofollow - http://www.ae-ta.com Lena 1935 WC12xxx, Willie 1951 CA6xx Dad bought new, 1954WD45 PS, 1960 D17 NF |
Posted By: Don(MO)
Date Posted: 23 Jun 2012 at 6:27am
That's just "plane" funny. lol ------------- 3 WD45's with power steering,G,D15 fork lift,D19, W-Speed Patrol, "A" Gleaner with a 330 corn head,"66" combine,roto-baler, and lots of Snap Coupler implements to make them work for their keep. |
CTuckerNWIL wrote:Posted By: CTuckerNWIL
Date Posted: 23 Jun 2012 at 6:32am
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Kinda Punny Saturday morning ey Don?
------------- http://www.ae-ta.com" rel="nofollow - http://www.ae-ta.com Lena 1935 WC12xxx, Willie 1951 CA6xx Dad bought new, 1954WD45 PS, 1960 D17 NF |
Posted By: Jim Lindemood
Date Posted: 23 Jun 2012 at 6:34am
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Wish you luck ---- Get 'er done. ---- 5500 is a few bales --- first cutting and more to come. makes the D19 a happy girl!
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Posted By: Jim Lindemood
Date Posted: 23 Jun 2012 at 6:35am
| ------or a sad girl if the 190 is back in action -- |
Posted By: AllisUpstate
Date Posted: 23 Jun 2012 at 8:01am
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I'm curious how many kids you can find to haul and stack 5,500 square bales. Are you stacking into an old barn, with a chain of kids to keep throwing it up to top of the mow? Brings back memories of lots of handwork, and makes for some pretty long hot days without extra help. It's fun seeing your posts on this - how about some pictures of your haying operation with those orange tractors in front? Great looking looking tractors and setup, and a pretty farm. You guys are about 50 miles northeast of us, and it's beautiful country up that way, where the land starts to open up and you can see the Adirondacks in the distance to the east, while it plateaus to the west all the way up to Canada. Really nice area up that way. |
Posted By: JarrodACFan
Date Posted: 23 Jun 2012 at 6:51pm
NOOOOO! We need rain here in Indiana BAD. We are lucky to have .001 inches of rain in June. If you are going to hold off the showers, send them to Indiana! ------------- 1956 WD45 Narrow Front Factory Power Steering, 1953 WD Wide Front Allis Express in Muncie, IN |
Posted By: captaindana
Date Posted: 23 Jun 2012 at 7:15pm
  OK guys and gals we finished. My son and I do all the fieldwork and as I bale he has a couple of kids helping stack. Realistically I did 75% of all fieldwork and 95% of fueling, greasing, oiling and maintenance. Of course the pole shed is full now these pics were after 3000 some bales. Now on to the XT! |
Posted By: Hubert (Ga)engine7
Date Posted: 23 Jun 2012 at 8:38pm
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That is some nice looking hay. And a nice stable of tractors also. Very few in this area use the square bales anymore except to feed horses. Dad quit baling in 1990, he was 82 at the time.
------------- Just an old country boy saved by the grace of God. |
Posted By: CAdon
Date Posted: 23 Jun 2012 at 9:13pm
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so your son is also a "pile-it"? (all dons resort to puns.) nicely done, sir. curiosity aroused - what does happen to the hay? ------------- 52 CA, 41 B and a little B1 oh, yeah... and an 8N ford snuck in there, too. |
Posted By: DanWi
Date Posted: 23 Jun 2012 at 10:07pm
| It was so dry around here that you could start raking by 4 or 5 in the morning when we finished hay. Too late to wish you luck you must have had good luck your done. Congrads job well done 5000+ bales at $4.00 per bale or more? should finance another orange purchase. Maybe something bigger for those soft fields so you don't have to unhook wagons. haha |
Posted By: captaindana
Date Posted: 24 Jun 2012 at 4:31am
| We make hay for the horse owners, they love the small squared. Around here with the river dew every morning plus the fact of heavy hay we couldn't operate without tedding everything after mowing. Tedders are essential. The heavy side of the baler is the problem when I hit the soft drainage low spots the heavy side goes down a foot to the axle instantly. I need duals on the heavy side of the baler. I got stuck 3 times again yesteray where I had to unhook the wagon and rejoin at another angle. All in all though it was an incredible personal recordsetting 11 days in June! |
Posted By: dave63
Date Posted: 24 Jun 2012 at 7:26am
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I have a neighbor that makes and sells alot of horse hay. What i never understood is why? It is very labor intense. He is wealthy, [doesn't need the money] I understand farming your wealth away but i think i would use some of that money to automate. First choice would be round bale but horse people can't handle the big bales. Second choice would be a bale stacker and pole barn and maybe a telahandler.
But then I put alot of labor into these old tractors just to play with them. So if your happy and enjoy making hay that is what is important.
BTW I enjoy your posts ------------- The universal answer to all questions is yes, how much do you want to spend? |
Posted By: Jim Lindemood
Date Posted: 24 Jun 2012 at 7:34am
| Good job -- ya got 'er done -- |
Posted By: DMiller
Date Posted: 24 Jun 2012 at 7:36am
| Two things why horse people prefer square bales, easy to hanle and store, do not mold as easily as rounds as horses do not tolerate the molds that grow in the bales. I know many that feed rounds but their animals do show signs of cholic and some internal distress(indigestion) when a bale gets to the heart area, they will generally quit feeding until another bale is brought out or the one at the bunks has dried some. |